Arizona 7, San Francisco 3
When: 10:15 PM ET, Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Where: AT&T Park, San Francisco, California
Temperature:
59°
Umpires:
Home -
Sean Barber, 1B -
Fieldin Culbreth, 2B -
Manny Gonzalez, 3B -
Jim Reynolds
Attendance:
41157
By SportsDirect Inc.
Diamondbacks 7, Giants 3: Gerardo Parra went 3-for-5 with a two-run homer while Paul Goldschmidt also went deep and drove in four as visiting Arizona evened its three-game set with San Francisco.
Parra crossed the plate three times and Martin Prado scored twice for the Diamondbacks. Bronson Arroyo (1-0) allowed three runs and six hits over five frames in his second straight start against the Giants before giving way to Josh Collmenter, who yielded three hits and a walk over the final four innings to log his first career save.
Tim Lincecum (0-1), who opposed Arroyo for the second time in as many outings, was tagged for seven runs over four innings. Michael Morse and Buster Posey each delivered a solo shot as San Francisco lost for only the second time in seven contests.
After Parra led off the game with a triple and Prado walked, Goldschmidt drove a 1-1 fastball the opposite way and into the right-field seats. Morse trimmed the deficit on the first pitch of the bottom of the second inning on a deep blast to left-center before Goldschmidt and Eric Chavez added a sacrifice fly and RBI triple, respectively, to increase Arizona’s advantage to 5-1 in the third.
Hunter Pence plated Pablo Sandoval with an RBI groundout in the bottom half, but the Diamondbacks responded again in the fourth when Parra followed Arroyo’s two-out single with his first home run of the season just over the right-field wall. Posey countered with a line-drive shot off Arroyo in the fifth, but the Giants could not find any more offense thereafter off Collmenter.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Goldschmidt, who improved to 13-for-26 all-time against Lincecum, posted his seventh career homer off the right-hander – more than twice as many as he has against any other pitcher (Chris Capuano, three). … Giants 1B Brandon Belt, who became the first Giant since 2003 to hit five home runs in the first eight games in Tuesday’s series-opening win, singled in five at-bats. … The Diamondbacks went 2-for-8 with runners in scoring position Wednesday, improving their season mark in such situations to 18-for-93.
Top Game Performances
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
Arizona
|
12 |
2 |
23 |
.316 |
11 |
11 |
7 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
San Francisco
|
9 |
2 |
15 |
.265 |
19 |
6 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |