Heliot

Ramos

Ramos gave Trevor McDonald all the run support he’d need by turning a 2-0 game into a 5-0 cushion on a three-run blast. The 26-year-old has homered 21 times in 2025 with 69 RBI, and he’ll likely have two more games to improve those solid — if unspectacular — numbers.

Ramos reached on an error in the third inning and scored on a sacrifice fly. He then knocked a base hit in the fourth before slugging a solo homer off Chris Roycroft to lead off the sixth. The 26-year-old outfielder is up to 20 homers and 84 runs scored while slashing .259/.331/.401 across 677 plate appearances.

Ramos did not great Clayton Kershaw with any kind of affection in his final regular-season start at home, as he took Kershaw deep to lead off the game. The 26-year-old has a decent 18 homers on the season, but the .394 slugging percentage shows you that there have been long droughts where Ramos just hasn’t driven the baseball.

Ramos, who is batting .257/.332/.390, hits the ball hard and has improved his strikeout rate this year, but because he’s a weak defender who doesn’t do the little things very well, he’s going to end this year with right around 1.0 WAR in 700 plate appearances. The Giants can’t and won’t bail on him, but much as with Patrick Bailey, he doesn’t seem like the building block that he appeared to be a year ago.

It looks to be nothing more than a routine night off for the 25-year-old outfielder. Luis Matos will slide over to cover left field while Drew Gilbert will draw a start in right field for the Giants and will bat ninth against Orioles’ right-hander Dean Kremer.

Ramos got the party started with that leadoff blast, it was one of three that the Giants hit in the first inning off Nestor Cortes. The 25-year-old outfielder has gone deep 15 times, driven in 53 runs and forged a .748 OPS. The fact that last number is still high tells you how good he was in the first half, as he has seen that number dwindle over the last two months.

Ramos scored on a Dominic Smith RBI single in the first inning. The 25-year-old outfielder is up to a .272 average after the three-hit effort against the Pirates Monday. Ramos has a .767 OPS and 51 RBI this year.

It appeared to be a routine off day at first glance, but Ramos is dealing with an illness that could potentially keep him out of Thursday’s series finale against the Diamondbacks as well. Fantasy managers should consider him day-to-day for now.

Ramos had a pretty quiet first half of June, but he’s collected two homers and seven RBI in his last five games. It’ll certainly help his RBI numbers if the Giants keep batting him third and fourth behind Rafael Devers.

Giants manager Bob Melvin has flip-flopped Devers and Heliot Ramos on his lineup card after the former went 0-for-5 during Friday’s series opener against his former club. The 28-year-old slugger will attempt to get back on track when he squares off against former teammate Brayan Bello on Saturday afternoon at Oracle Park.