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This was an absolute palate-cleanser for the recently struggling offense. Giving a pitcher who came in with a 3.04 ERA, a career-worst outing, is something I hope the \u201cWhy do we always make scrubs look like Cy Young winners?\u201d crew remember. Things tonight started early, and extremely quickly. And by quickly, I mean after a 1-2-3 inning by Zac Gallen<\/a> in the top of the first, six pitches into the bottom half, Arizona had a 4-0 lead. Ketel Marte<\/a> singled on an 0-1 pitch, Corbin Carroll<\/a> singled on his first offering, and Geraldo Perdomo<\/a> reached after he grounded the first pitch off the glove of the Giants\u2019 third-baseman. That set the table for Nolan Arenado<\/a>, whose ownership of Robbie Ray was close to Goldy\/Timmeh levels: 53 career PA and a 1.244 OPS. That increased after this:<\/p>\n View Link<\/a><\/p>\n It was only the second time in franchise history that our fourth batter of the game had hit a grand-slam. The previous occurrence had been on April 28, 2011 against the Cubs at Wrigley. From the SnakePit recap<\/a>: \u201cChris Young led off the bottom with a double, and suddenly, Dempster couldn\u2019t find the strike zone with the help of a native guide. Kelly Johnson drew a walk, and after a LOUD foul ball into the cheap seats, Justin Upton<\/a> was hit by a pitch, loading the bases for cleanup hitter Stephen Drew<\/a>. [He] took [Ryan] Dempster to the bank, depositing a fastball into the outfield seats for his first career Grand Slam.\u201d That did take more pitches: nineteen, so more than three times the number to reach tonight\u2019s lickety-split slam.<\/p>\n Okay, having spent over four hundred words and not even reached the first D-back out, I\u2019d better gallop on through the rest of the game. It seemed initially like Gallen might be a little shaky, allowing San Francisco<\/a> get on the board in the second, then another run in the third. But Arizona had no trouble responding on each occasion. They scored one in the second on a Marte sacrifice fly, then added two more in the third. That came courtesy of a rare Tim Tawa<\/a> start, who singled home both runs. But the game was ended as a meaningful contest by the D-backs getting a five-run fifth. Gabriel Moreno<\/a> had a two-run homer, Ryan Waldschmidt and Marte added RBI knocks, and Arenado drove in our twelfth and final run on another of the Giants\u2019 three errors.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Thereafter, it became a bit reminiscent of a spring training game. We pulled Carroll, Arenado and it looked like we were perhaps going to end replacing Moreno with James McCann<\/a>. I say that, because the last-named did potentially make this a bit of a Pyrrhic victory [to re-purpose one of last year\u2019s popular recap titles]. After a half-inning spent playing 1B McCann, trying to leg out an infield hit, appeared to tweak something in his leg. While he did get the hit, bringing him back over the Uecker Line, he had to be lifted from the game immediately. Adrian Del Castillo<\/a> took over for him on the basepaths, and Moreno stayed in the game. No word on McCann as yet.<\/p>\n Gallen got through six innings with no more damage, allowing four hits and a walk with five strikeouts, for his first quality start since April 1. At 81 pitches, he could perhaps have gone deeper. But the bullpen probably needed the work. Ryan Thompson<\/a>, Brandyn Garcia<\/a> and Jonathan Loaisiga<\/a> each tossed scoreless innings to close out the Diamondbacks\u2019 first double-digit margin of victory since the 10-0 win over the White Sox<\/a> last June 23. However, let\u2019s not get too carried away with ourselves. The Giants do have the second-worst record in the league, and we should be shutting down their offense. Their 167 runs is twenty-five fewer than any other NL team.<\/p>\n But tonight was one for the Arizona offense: 16 hits in total, tying a season high every starter notching one by the end of the fifth. Waldschmidt had three hits, a walk and two stolen bases, while there were two-hit games for Marte, Carroll, Ildemaro Vargas<\/a> and Moreno. The win pulls the Diamondbacks back up to .500, and with nine more games against these woeful Giants and Rockies<\/a> (3-1 so far) before we face anybody else, I\u2019m hopeful the team will be able to take advantage of this stretch of the schedule and get well above even by the time we start seeing other franchises.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/835ca3524d87b3964debc645000baa5e.jpeg\"\/)
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