What a way to say you're back! More than 14 months after Tommy John surgery took him off the mound, Jackson Jobe walked back into a big-league game in San Francisco and shut the door on the Giants like he never left. Five shutout innings, one hit, one walk, four strikeouts — and the 24-year-old right-hander, our first-round pick and third overall back in 2021, punctuated the night by uncorking a 100-mph fastball on a 3-2 count to punch out Giants leadoff man Bryce Eldridge. Seventy-one pitches, 46 for strikes. Willy Adames scratched out a single in the fourth and Drew Cavanaugh drew the lone walk in the third, and that was all the Giants got. Jobe hadn't thrown a big-league pitch since a start against these same Giants on May 28, 2025, a 4-3 Detroit win, and four rehab starts in the minors over the past month set the stage. The verdict came from the man who'd know best — pitching coach Chris Fetter told Jobe that was the best he had ever seen him look.
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