Rafael Devers is becoming exactly what the Giants need as everything around him falls apart

San Francisco’s injury wave kept growing Monday night at 24 Willie Mays Plaza, but Rafael Devers helped the Giants snap through it. The team began the game with 14 players on the injured list and added more before first pitch: infielder Willy Adames with a left elbow sprain, outfielder Victor Bericoto with a right knee bone bruise, and right-hander JT Brubaker with bruised ribs. Then Carson Whisenhunt left with elbow pain in the third inning. With more roster moves—including Bryce Eldridge on bereavement and Matt “Tugboat” Wilkinson optioned—the lineup was thinned further. Still, facing Reds ace Chase Burns, San Francisco won 5-0, powered by Devers’s three-run homer in the second.