A pair of rookies helped the Giants get their weekend in Arizona off to a winning start.
Andrew Suarez pitched six strong innings
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Suarez (3-4), a 25-year-old left-hander, gave up a run, scattering seven hits in his first win in five starts. The left-hander struck out five and walked
two.
Five of the singles Suarez allowed were infield hits, including one that died halfway down the third-base line, an inch or two off the chalk.
”It was just weird,” Suarez said of the infield hit spree. ”I’ve never seen it like that. But it worked out thankfully. It could have been way worse and
they’d have scored five or six runs.”
Suarez is among the young pitchers who are filling in well for the Giants while the veteran starters work their way back to health.
”We have difficult decisions the way these kids are throwing,” San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy said. ”As I said so many times, they’re doing what you’d
hope they would do, is make the decision tough.”
Slater
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the second and knocked in the go-ahead score off Andrew Chafin (1-3) in the
seventh. Slater, who entered the game 4 for 15 in the majors this season, also
singled.
He’s become accustomed to the back-and-forth trips to Sacramento.
”The first couple of times up and down it’s easy to lose focus,” Slater said, ”but for me, I see it as a way to try to prove a point, that I was here to
stay.”
One of these trips, after a few more of these nights, he may be right.
Will Smith pitched a perfect ninth for his first save since April 13, 2014. San Francisco relievers retired the last 12 batters they faced.
Chafin
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when Slater doubled to the right-center gap.
Corbin limited San Francisco to a run on four hits, striking out five and walking one in six innings, but left with his second straight no decision. In
his previous outing, Corbin blanked Pittsburgh on three hits for seven innings
and matched his career strikeout best with 12. Corbin last won on June 5 at San
Francisco.
”Patrick was great today,” Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said. ”He did everything we asked him to do. Would have sent him back out there in the seventh
inning to get couple of hitters but we decided to pinch-hit for him.
Unfortunately, one of the hazards of the National League game, but he did a
great job and gave us a chance to win the game.”
The NL West-leading Diamondbacks opened a 10-game homestand after an 8-2 trip.
The Giants took a 1-0 lead in the second. Buster Posey led off with a single and took second when Chris Owings bobbled the ball in center. Slater brought
Posey home with a one-out double.
The Diamondbacks finally got to Suarez tied it in the sixth. Ketel Marte led off with a double to the fence in right-center. Owings was called out on a
groundout to third on a close play. Arizona challenged and the call was
overturned after a video review, leaving runners at first and third and no outs.
Jake Lamb’s sacrifice fly to left brought home Marte and made it 1-all.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Giants: RHP Johnny Cueto (right elbow strain) made his second rehab start Friday night for Triple-A Sacramento.
Diamondbacks: CF A.J. Pollock (fractured left thumb) made his first rehab start
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HIRANO’S MARK
Yoshihisa Hirano set a Diamondbacks record with his 25th consecutive appearance without allowing a run, getting the final two outs of the seventh
inning. The Japanese right-hander broke the previous record of 24 shared by
Brandon Lyon (2008) and J.J. Putz (2012).
It’s tied with Shigetoshi Hasegawa of Seattle (2003) for second-longest streak in the majors by a Japanese-born pitcher. Koji Uehara of Boston had 27
straight scoreless appearances in 2011.
UP NEXT
Giants RHP Derek Rodriguez (2-1, 3.82 ERA) makes his sixth major league start. San Francisco has won four of his previous five. Arizona RHP Shelby
Miller (0-1, 12.27) makes his second start since returning from Tommy John
surgery in the second game of the three-game weekend series.
Nicklas Backstrom scored his second goal of the game 11:53 into overtime to give the
Washington Capitals a 4-3 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday and
a 3-2 lead in the first-round playoff series.
Braden Holtby made 16 of his 39 saves in the third period to help Washington get to overtime. Four of five games between the teams have gone past regulation
making fatigue a factor for Game 6 Monday night in Columbus.
Evgeny Kuznetsov and T.J. Oshie scored along with Backstrom in regulation for the Capitals, who became the first home team this series to win a home game.
Holtby has been in net for Washington’s three consecutive victories after
replacing Philipp Grubauer in Game 2, stopping 102 of 108 shots to turn the
tide.
Fellow Vezina Trophy-winning goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky allowed a soft goal to Kuznetsov as one of his four on 29 shots in the loss. Matt Calvert scored
short-handed and on a breakaway and Oliver Bjorkstrand had a deflection goal for
Columbus.
MAPLE LEAFS 4, BRUINS 3
BOSTON (AP) – Tyler Bozak and James van Riemsdyk scored 1:19 apart in the second period, and then Toronto killed off a 5-on-3 and three more power plays
in a row to beat Boston and avoid elimination.
Connor Brown and Andreas Johnsson each scored his first career playoff goal in the first period, and the Maple Leafs took a 4-1 lead to chase Tuukka Rask in
the second. Toronto also led 4-1 in Game 7 of the teams’ 2013 playoff series
before the Bruins won in overtime en route to their second Stanley Cup final
berth in two years. This time, Boston cut the deficit to one goal but the Leafs
held on.
Frederik Andersen stopped 42 shots for Toronto
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Jake DeBrusk and Sean Kuraly scored for the Bruins. Patrice Bergeron returned to the ice after missing one game with an undisclosed injury.
LIGHTNING 3, DEVILS 1
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) – Nikita Kucherov scored his 27th career postseason goal, Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 26 shots and Tampa Bay beat New Jersey to end the
first-round series in five games.
The 19-year-old Mikhail Sergachev became the youngest player in Lightning history to score a playoff goal and Ryan Callahan, back in the lineup after
missing the previous two games with an upper-body injury, sealed it with an
empty-netter with 1.7 seconds remaining.
Tampa Bay advanced to a second-round series against the Boston-Toronto winner.
Kyle Palmieri scored for the Devils.
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