Webb's pitching, Flores' pinch-hit double help Giants edge Guardians 2-1 to end 4-game skid

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Logan Webb pitched seven splendid innings, pinch-hitter Wilmer Flores delivered a go-ahead double and the San Francisco Giants beat the Cleveland Guardians 2-1 on Thursday to stop a four-game losing streak.

Webb (7-5) gave up seven hits but struck out nine. The right-hander did not issue a walk as he lowered his ERA to 2.49.

Cleveland starter Gavin Williams held the Giants scoreless through six innings, but San Francisco got to the Guardians’ bullpen in the seventh. Casey Schmitt greeted Matt Festa (1-1) with a single to open the inning. Festa walked Jung Hoo Lee before Patrick Bailey laid down a sacrifice bunt.

Nic Enright replaced Festa and then Flores, batting for Christian Koss, drilled a double down the left-field line to score Schmitt and Lee. The Giants had been 1 for 23 with runners in scoring position during the series before Flores came through.

Camilo Doval worked a 1-2-3 ninth to earn his 11th save.

Steven Kwan had three hits and scored Cleveland’s run on Carlos Santana’s single in the third.

San Francisco left fielder Heliot Ramos made a diving grab of Lane Thomas’ liner to end the first inning, saving at least one run.

Webb’s outing was his 23rd start of at least seven innings since the beginning of the 2024 season. That leads the majors; Houston’s Framber Valdez is second with 19.

Cleveland RHP Tanner Bibee (4-6, 3.79 ERA) opposes Athletics LHP Jeffrey Springs (5-5, 4.52) in West Sacramento on Friday night.

Giants RHP Hayden Birdsong (3-1, 2.79 ERA) pitches Friday night against Boston RHP Hunter Dobbins (4-1, 3.74) as new San Francisco slugger Rafael Devers faces the team that traded him Sunday.

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Lena Byrd-Miles, middle, prepares to sing Lift Every Voice, as part of the Juneteenth holiday, before a baseball game between the San Francisco Giants and the Cleveland Guardians in San Francisco, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Cleveland Guardians' Steven Kwan, right, is congratulated by Lane Thomas (8) after scoring against the San Francisco Giants during the third inning of a baseball game in San Francisco, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Cleveland Guardians' Angel Martínez, left, is tagged out at home by San Francisco Giants catcher Patrick Bailey during the third inning of a baseball game in San Francisco, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

San Francisco Giants' Casey Schmitt (10) celebrates with Jung Hoo Lee after both scored on Wilmer Flores' two-run double during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Guardians in San Francisco, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

San Francisco Giants' Wilmer Flores hits a two-run double against the Cleveland Guardians during the seventh inning of a baseball game in San Francisco, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

LONDON (AP) — Political opposition leaders in the United Kingdom have called for a human rights activist to be stripped of his citizenship over past social media posts allegedly containing violent and antisemitic language within days of the dual national returning to Britain after years in Egyptian prisons.

The leaders of the Conservative and Reform parties also demanded the deportation of Alaa Abd el-Fattah following the discovery of tweets from more than a decade ago in which he allegedly endorsed killing “Zionists’’ and police.

“The comments he made on social media about violence against Jews, white people and the police, amongst others, are disgusting and abhorrent,” Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch wrote Monday in the Daily Mail newspaper.

Abd el-Fattah on Monday apologized for the tweets while saying some had been taken out of context and misrepresented.

The activist has spent years in Egyptian prisons, most recently for allegedly spreading fake news about the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. He returned to the U.K. on Friday after Egyptian authorities lifted a travel ban that had forced him to remain in the country since he was released in September.

But he immediately became embroiled in controversy after Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was “delighted” that Abd el-Fattah was back in the UK and had been reunited with his family.

That triggered the republication of messages on the social media platform Twitter, now X, that were described as antisemitic, homophobic and anti-British.

Abd el-Fattah expressed shock at the turn of events in a statement released Monday.

“I am shaken that, just as I am being reunited with my family for the first time in 12 years, several historic tweets of mine have been republished and used to question and attack my integrity and values, escalating to calls for the revocation of my citizenship,’’ he said.

The remarks were mostly expressions of a young man’s anger and frustrations in a time of regional crises such as the wars in Iraq, Lebanon and Gaza and the rise of police brutality against young people in Egypt, Abd el-Fattah said.

“Looking at the tweets now — the ones that were not completely twisted out of their meaning — I do understand how shocking and hurtful they are, and for that I unequivocally apologise,’’ he said in the statement.

But that has not staunched the flow of anger from politicians.

Reform Party leader Nigel Farage described the posts as “abhorrent” and said they showed Abd el-Fattah held views that are “completely opposed to our British way of life.”

“It should go without saying that anyone who possesses racist and anti-British views such as those of Mr. elFattah (sic) should not be allowed into the UK,” Farage wrote in a letter to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, who oversees immigration matters.

FILE - Pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who was in prison for almost all of the past 12 years, speaks to his friends at his home after he got a presidential pardon, in Cairo, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Khaled Elfiqi, File)