Giants get another homer from Casey Schmitt but again fall to D'backs
Schmitt homered in the first inning Tuesday night at Oracle Park - his sixth homer in the past 10 games - and he drove in another run in the third. The sort of recent mistakes that have sunk the Giants lately, though, mingled into yet another loss to Arizona, this time 7-5, the Diamondbacks' fifth win in as many tries against them this year.
Walks to the leadoff batter that turned into a run? Done. A (somewhat tough) error that led to an unearned run? Sure. Poor at-bats with men in scoring position? Why not?
Manager Tony Vitello is seeing the same things. Asked about an entirely different topic after the game, he responded, "We've got other problems to worry about. We need to do better at throwing strikes and we need to do better at swinging at strikes, and there's a few other things too we could list off, but all of us need to do whatever we can to come to work and get better every day."
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And because this is the Diamondbacks, of course Ketel Marte did some damage. The Giants somehow retired him his first three at-bats, and in the fourth, he hit a mammoth 462-foot homer to left at 113.7 mph, the farthest and hardest-hit ball at Oracle Park this year. It was a two-run shot off left-hander Erik Miller, giving Marte five games in a row against the Giants with multiple RBIs, the longest such streak by an opponent in one season since David Bell in 2006.
Tyler Mahle started for the Giants and, with San Francisco up 1-0 after Schmitt's homer, he opened the second by walking Nolan Arenado, the 46th time a Giants pitcher has walked the first batter of an inning, 11th most in the majors. San Francisco is allowing opposing hitters leading off innings a .353 on-base percentage, the worst mark in the majors.
Diamondbacks 7, Giants 5
Arizona
AB
R
H
BI
BB
SO
Avg.
Totals
32
7
8
7
6
7
Marte 2b
5
1
1
2
0
1
.273
Carroll rf
3
0
0
0
2
1
.299
Perdomo ss
5
1
1
0
0
2
.220
Arenado 3b
2
1
1
0
1
0
.271
Fernandez 3b
1
0
0
0
0
0
.262
Waldschmidt cf-lf
4
1
1
0
0
1
.317
Vargas 1b
4
1
1
2
0
1
.303
Moreno c
2
0
1
2
1
0
.252
Del Castillo dh
3
1
1
1
0
0
.191
b-Tawa ph-dh
1
0
0
0
0
1
.175
Troy lf
2
1
1
0
1
0
.444
Barrosa cf
0
0
0
0
1
0
.179
San Francisco
AB
R
H
BI
BB
SO
Avg.
Totals
35
5
9
5
3
10
Adames ss
5
2
2
1
0
2
.239
Schmitt 2b
5
1
2
2
0
1
.298
Chapman 3b
1
1
0
0
3
1
.234
Devers 1b
4
0
1
1
0
1
.246
Bader cf
4
0
0
0
0
2
.168
J.Rodriguez lf
3
0
0
0
0
0
.211
c-Brennan ph-lf
1
0
0
0
0
0
.095
Eldridge dh
4
0
1
0
0
1
.178
Haase c
3
1
2
1
0
0
.286
d-Arraez ph
1
0
0
0
0
0
.317
Bericoto rf
2
0
1
0
0
1
.200
a-Gilbert ph-rf
2
0
0
0
0
1
.223
Arizona
030
001
210_7
8
0
San Francisco
101
000
111_5
9
1
a-pinch hit for Bericoto in the 7th. b-struck out for Del Castillo in the 8th. c-popped out for J.Rodriguez in the 8th. d-grounded out for Haase in the 9th.
E: Adames (10). LOB_Arizona 5, San Francisco 6. 2B: Waldschmidt (5), Vargas (9), Eldridge (2), Devers (15). 3B: Adames (1). HR: Del Castillo (4), off Mahle; Marte (9), off Miller; Schmitt (12), off E.Rodriguez; Haase (3), off Ginkel; Adames (7), off Sewald. RBIs: Vargas 2 (34), Moreno 2 (17), Del Castillo (19), Marte 2 (32), Schmitt 2 (31), Haase (5), Devers (28), Adames (18). SB: Carroll (7). SF: Moreno.
Runners left in scoring position: Arizona 2 (Carroll, Perdomo); San Francisco 4 (Eldridge, Bericoto, Devers 2). RISP: Arizona 1 for 7; San Francisco 1 for 9.
Runners moved up: Vargas, Schmitt. LIDP: Devers. GIDP: Marte, Perdomo.
DP: Arizona 1 (Arenado, Vargas, Arenado); San Francisco 2 (Devers, Adames, Devers; Chapman, Schmitt, Devers).
Arizona
IP
H
R
ER
BB
SO
NP
ERA
E.Rodriguez, W, 5-1
6
6
2
2
2
6
94
2.31
Ginkel
1
1
1
1
0
2
16
3.32
Morillo
1
1
1
1
1
1
21
2.91
Sewald, S, 13-14
1
1
1
1
0
1
19
3.98
San Francisco
IP
H
R
ER
BB
SO
NP
ERA
Mahle, L, 1-7
5
3
3
3
3
3
81
6.04
Winn
1
2
1
0
0
1
12
1.85
Miller
1
1
2
2
1
2
23
4.70
Borucki
2
2
1
1
2
1
35
4.15
ABS Challenge: Rodriguez (Ball-Confirmed); Devers (Strike-Confirmed); Waldschmidt (Strike-Confirmed); Morillo (Ball-Overturned to Strike).
Pitch timer violations: Vargas (batter).
Umpires: Home, Sean Barber; First, D.J. Reyburn; Second, Steven Jaschinski; Third, James Hoye.
T: 2:38. A: 32,336 (41,915).
Ryan Waldschmidt doubled (the ball lodged under the base of the wall in center, replay determined, and Ildemaro Vargas sent Arenado in with a groundout, Gabriel Moreno provided a sacrifice fly to give Arizona the lead and Adrian Del Castillo mashed a solo homer.
"If I go out there and put a shutdown inning together, I think we probably win the game, just because we had a lot of momentum, quick first for me, and then Schmitty hits the home run," Mahle said. "So that was the game right there."
Mahle, signed to a one-year, $10 million deal before the season, has a 6.04 ERA that is the highest in the league among qualified starting pitchers.
Shortstop Willy Adames made an error that led to a run for the second night in a row; he made a poor throw to first in the sixth after a diving play up the middle to stop an Arenado grounder, putting men at first and third. Another Vargas groundout eventually scored the lead runner.
With two on in the fifth, Adames struck out on a changeup from Eduardo Rodriguez that was so far outside it was in the left-handed batter's box.
"A lot of the guys are pressing a little bit when we get guys on base," Vitello said. "It sounds kind of silly to say out loud, but we're almost overvaluing runs instead of being patient, letting things come."
That same inning, with the bases loaded and two outs, Devers challenged a low strike call that made it 2-2 and the call was upheld. He took the next pitch, a called strike three that appeared slightly more out of zone than the previous one, didn't challenge and the inning ended.
There were some nice moments for the Giants aside from Schmitt's daily heroics. Eric Haase hit a homer in the seventh. Victor Bericoto recorded his first big-league hit, a single in the fifth.
"He's an amazing guy and I love playing with him, he's a great ballplayer," DH Bryce Eldridge said. "I was definitely fired up for him. It's a very cool moment."
Eldridge got a start against a lefty and doubled in his first at-bat; he'd only had three previous at-bats against lefties this year but correctly pointed out he hit lefties better than righties in the minors last year. "I feel comfortable against lefties," he said.
He nearly went deep in his second - his flyball to center would have been out in every other ballpark, something that happened to Rafael Devers in each of the previous two games.
"The first thing people told me when I signed with San Francisco is, ‘You're going to get a couple taken there,'" Eldridge said. "When I opened my phone after the game, my agent, Tucker Ward, was like, ‘Your first time getting Oracled, congratulations.'"
Devers doubled home Matt Chapman in the eighth, Devers' 11th double in 24 games this month - and with two outs and the bases empty in the ninth, Adames belted a homer to dead center, his seventh of the season.
Luis Arraez, the team's top hitter, got the start off against the lefty Rodriguez; Arraez was a little banged up after being hit twice in Sunday's game against the White Sox and had started 51 of the first 54 games. He pinch hit in the ninth and grounded out.
Arizona has won eight of the past nine games between the teams, outscoring San Francisco 36-15.
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