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SF Giants ace Logan Webb changes the narrative in gritty outing against D-backs

He is far from just a sinkerballer.
ByNick San Miguel|
Sep 8, 2025; San Francisco, California, USA; San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Logan Webb (62) delivers a pitch against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the first inning at Oracle Park. Mandatory Credit: Neville E. Guard-Imagn Images
Sep 8, 2025; San Francisco, California, USA; San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Logan Webb (62) delivers a pitch against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the first inning at Oracle Park. Mandatory Credit: Neville E. Guard-Imagn Images | Neville E. Guard-Imagn Images

SF Giants ace Logan Webb is one of the most reliable pitchers in the game. He is turning in yet another outstanding season and just reached 200 strikeouts in a season for the first time in his career.

Logan Webb sets personal best strikeout mark for SF Giants

Webb punched out seven batters in six innings of work against the Arizona Diamondbacks. He did not have his best stuff as he allowed four runs, only one of them earned as his defense betrayed him a bit, but he was able to grind out a good performance to give the Giants a chance to win a game that they desperately need as they try to remain alive in the NL Wild Card race.

It is the exact type of performance one has come to expect, and even take for granted, from Webb over the course of the last few years. The All-Star can always be counted upon to grind and give everything he can on the mound.

Yet, the fact that he has reached 200 strikeouts on the season has the potential to change the narrative surrounding him. Webb has always seemed to fly under the radar and it may be because he has been labeled a sinkerballer which carries with it the notion that he relies on his defense for his success rather than a pure strikeout pitcher who doesn't need his defense at all.

It is a silly notion and it is not even true since Webb has always been a pitcher who can get a strikeout when he needs one. His raw stuff and the movement he gets on pitches has always been able to induce swings and misses from opponents. Back in 2023 he reached 194 strikeouts so he got awful close.

Early this season it was apparent that Webb was a bit ahead of where he has been at in recent seasons with his strikeout pace. It is not altogether clear why he has had more strikeouts this season, but he has seemed to master the four-seam fastball up in the zone which is an effective pitch to get batters to swing and miss.

One hopes the fact that Webb has reached 200 strikeouts for the first time in his career, as well as the fact that he seems likely to reach 200 innings pitched for the third consecutive season, will change the narrative that he is just a measly sinkerballer who only skirts by. Webb is a bonafide ace and he should be regarded as such.

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