Webb looked every bit like the pitcher his record suggests early on, working around traffic while Rafael Devers, Cox and Whitcomb all went deep to build a cushion. By the time the Giants tacked on a 3-run 8th, they were sitting on a 9-3 lead with 3 outs to play and Oracle Park was emptying into the parking lots.
Then the 9th happened. Hector Rodríguez, who'd already gone deep once, added a second homer to get the rally started, and Edwin Suárez followed with a grand slam that turned a laugher into a 1-run game. José Trevino capped it with a sacrifice fly, and by the time the dust settled the Reds had scored 7 runs and stolen a 10-9 win that had no business being competitive an inning earlier.
It's a wild finish for two clubs going nowhere in particular — Cincinnati sits at 62-71, San Francisco at 54-78, and neither is playing for October. But form matters even in low-stakes baseball, and the Giants had won the first two of this series before Wednesday's collapse flipped the whole thing on its head.
Donovan Smith takes the loss after recording 1 out and allowing all 4 of the go-ahead runs, while Tanner Santillan picked up the win and Camilo Pagan closed it out. For a Giants team already picking through the wreckage of its pitching staff, blowing a 6-run, 9th-inning lead is about as bad as it gets — and for a Reds club that had dropped 3 straight, it's the kind of win that makes the flight home a lot easier.