{"id":319870,"date":"2025-09-16T17:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/319870\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T17:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:37:21","slug":"perdomo-and-gallen-help-surging-diamondbacks-inch-closer-in-playoff-race-with-8-1-win-over-giants-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/319870\/","title":{"rendered":"Perdomo and Gallen help surging Diamondbacks inch closer in playoff race with 8-1 win over Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Geraldo Perdomo went 3 for 3 with a double, a triple and two RBIs, Zac Gallen pitched six smooth innings and the surging Arizona Diamondbacks beat the San Francisco Giants 8-1 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona, which has won three straight and 12 of 18, moved a half-game ahead of San Francisco for third place in the NL West, just 1 1\/2 games behind the idle New York Mets for the last National League wild card.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Gallen (12-14) allowed one run and two hits with six strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>Ildemaro Vargas&#8217; two-run single gave the Diamondbacks a 3-1 lead in a six-run sixth. Jordan Lawlar doubled in a run, James McCann hit a two-run homer and Perdomo added an RBI triple to make it 7-1.<\/p>\n<p>Perdomo also walked twice on a perfect night at the plate in the leadoff spot.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants mustered only two hits, matching their season low in a July 29 loss to Pittsburgh, and lost for the fourth time in five games.<\/p>\n<p>Perdomo walked in the first and Ketel Marte was hit by the next pitch before back-to-back strikeouts of Corbin Carroll and Gabriel Moreno. Perdomo advanced to third on a passed ball by catcher Patrick Bailey and then scored on a throwing error by starter Kai-Wei Teng to make it 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Casey Schmitt homered in the third to tie it.<\/p>\n<p>Top prospect Bryce Eldridge, a 20-year-old first baseman, made his major league debut for the Giants and finished 0 for 3 with a strikeout. His 407-foot flyout to center field in the seventh would have been a home run in 23 big league ballparks, including Oracle Park in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>Carroll doubled leading off the Arizona sixth before Joel Peguero relieved Matt Gage (0-1). Moreno and Blaze Alexander drew back-to-back walks to load the bases for Vargas.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>Gallen has 1,005 strikeouts with the Diamondbacks, joining Randy Johnson (2,077) and Brandon Webb (1,065) as the only pitchers in club history with at least 1,000.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>The Giants had not announced a starter for Tuesday to face Diamondbacks LHP Eduardo Rodriguez (8-8, 4.98 ERA).<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Geraldo Perdomo went 3 for 3 with a double, a triple and two RBIs, Zac&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[22,5,30643,9406,1538,756,5993,1533,16566,1198,543,729,2328,2304,12022,4,2305,2303,61,7661,776,378,66,852,86],"class_list":{"0":"post-319870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-blaze-alexander","11":"tag-casey-schmitt","12":"tag-corbin-carroll","13":"tag-eduardo-rodriguez","14":"tag-gabriel-moreno","15":"tag-geraldo-perdomo","16":"tag-ildemaro-vargas","17":"tag-james-mccann","18":"tag-jordan-lawlar","19":"tag-ketel-marte","20":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","21":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","22":"tag-matt-gage","23":"tag-mlb","24":"tag-mlb-playoffs","25":"tag-mlb-postseason","26":"tag-new-york-mets","27":"tag-patrick-bailey","28":"tag-pittsburgh","29":"tag-san-francisco","30":"tag-san-francisco-giants","31":"tag-the-giants","32":"tag-zac-gallen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115215198259497755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}