Giants vs. Diamondbacks – game summary – July 3, 2021

PHOENIX – San Francisco manager Gabe Kapler decided to get Austin Slater to tweak the hit for Alex Dickerson to lead the fifth inning.

Slater ended up on the ground, but he leveled it with a big bang at a crucial moment.

Slater hit a homer in two races in the eighth inning, Mike Yastrzemski also had two strokes and the Giants came together to beat the fighting Arizona Diamondbacks on 6-5 Saturday night.

We’re addicted to Slater and I thought it was an important enough bat to get him into the game, Kapler said. Apparently he got us the biggest hit of the night. “

The Giants hit three home programs to end the season-long four-game losing streak on Friday in an 11-4 win and took the Diamondbacks again with a long ball.

Arizona rose 5-4 with a stunning single from David Peraltas in the fifth inning, but Slater broke a couple of good pitches from Ryan Buchter (0-2) before hitting a 463-foot home control in the middle.

San Francisco has done 214,405 of its runs (52.8%) with those from this season’s runs.

Dominic Leone (2-0) hit two in the seventh inning and Jake McGee worked a perfect ninth in his 16th fight with 18 chances and improved the giants to a top 52-30. San Francisco beat the highest three errors of the season and Thairo Estrada was selected eighth first.

I don’t think we played our sharp baseball brand defensively or on platforms, Kapler said. We were not at our best and we need to be better.

Nick Ahmed hit a two-run home to help Arizona rally from an early four-run deficit, but the bullfight was another disappointment. The last Diamondbacks have lost six out of seven.

We dropped four strokes, fought back and tied it up and took the lead, Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said. We just cut. We just have to do a better job on the hill.

Diamondbacks starter Jake Faria gave a run in four innings against St. Louis 28. June in his first big league start since 2018. The right-hander fled the jam in the first turn against the giants, but couldn’t twist from the problems in the third.

San Francisco wore red cap caps as part of the Major League Baseball’s July 4 campaign, a blatant change from the giants ’plain black.

Yastrzemski hit eighteen shots after the twelfth shot, followed by Brandon Crawford’s three-point trio and Donovan Solano’s RBI single.

He was fine, Lovullo said of Faria. “I think the line points were a little worse than what it was. He attacked the zone, he had really good laps on the secondary fields and he competed.

Giants starter Sammy Long was unable to hold the lead.

Asdrubal Cabrera and Christian Walker each had running points in the third inning, and Ahmed leveled it to 4 with two runs of homer over the wall in the right fourth.

I just tried to stay in the middle of the field and got just enough barrels for it, Ahmed said.

PROTECTIVE PEARLS

Diamondbacks LF David Peralta got a great catch and possibly saved the run in the sixth innings, with Yastrzemski’s diving catch swinging low to the left center.

Giants LF Jaylen Davis also made a dive catch in the eighth inning to rob Ahmed’s hit with the runner first.

SHORT HOPS

The Giants have beaten the Diamondbacks 117-65 and gone 16-3 against them since the start of the 2020 season. … Faria had a double turn in the third inning of the first career hit. … Crawford overtook JT Snow in ninth on the SF-era (1958-present) RBI list with 616.

TRAINERS ‘ROOM

Giants: 3B Evan Longoria caught up before the game as he returns from a left shoulder sprain. He could return by the end of July. … RHP Logan Webb (right shoulder strain) is scheduled to throw at Triple-A in Sacramento on Tuesday. … INF Tommy La Stella (left hind limb position) could go on rehabilitation assignments during the All-Star break.

Diamondbacks: RHP Zac Gallen was promoted to a 10-day injured list after leaving Friday’s game in the third inning with a tight right hind leg. Arizona chose C Bryan Holaday’s contract with Triple-A Reno to take his list.

NEXT

San Francisco RHP Anthony Scalafini (8-3, 2.91 ERA) will face Arizona LHP Caleb Smith (2-4, 3.08) in the Sunday Series final.

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