The Arizona Diamondbacks are eager to forget their frustrating National League-worst 8-16 July and get rolling again this month.
A little momentum from the series opener with the San Francisco Giants might help.
Ketel Marte hit a tiebreaking double to the warning track in right-center with none out in the 11th inning and the D-backs denied the Giants a third straight walk-off win with a 4-3 victory Monday night.
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“I’m ready for this month to turn, I think this whole team is,” manager Torey Lovullo said. “We’re looking forward to a fresh month and just pushing in the right direction.”
Taylor Rogers (5-4) gave up Marte’s hit to score Geraldo Perdomo, who began the inning on second base.
Emmanuel Rivera hit a go-ahead single in the 10th only for the Giants to even it in the bottom half when Kevin Ginkel (5-0) threw a wild pitch that scored Brandon Crawford for the tying run. Ginkel recovered for the win.
The D-backs (57-50) pulled within one game of San Francisco (58-49) having gone 5-3 in the season series matchups so far and 2-2 at Oracle Park.
Arizona had lost three of four and eight of 10.
“We’ve just got to continue to play and do the little things,” Marte said.
Tyler Rogers pitched a perfect eighth, Camilo Doval struck out the side in order in the ninth, then Scott Alexander surrendered Rivera’s hit.
The Diamondbacks tied it in the sixth on Taiwanese-American Corbin Carroll’s RBI single and a run-scoring double by Lourdes Gurriel Jr.
Wilmer Flores homered in the third for San Francisco and Crawford added a fourth-inning sacrifice fly.
Lovullo liked his team’s patience to stay with it even against the Giants’ lights-out bullpen to keep creating chances late in the game.
“This was a dog fight, this was a battle,” Lovullo said. “I’m so proud of this team, it’s unbelievable. On a day where two of our players stepped out, we blocked out all the noise, we went out there after falling down a couple runs and won a baseball game in a very tough environment.”
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