PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Trevor McDonald pitched six scoreless innings, Victor Bericoto hit a two-run homer and the San Francisco Giants beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-4 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Heliot Ramos had a solo homer and an RBI triple to help the Giants snap an eight-game skid against Arizona. San Francisco avoided being swept by the Diamondbacks for the third time this year and its first 0-9 start to a season against a single opponent in franchise history.<\/p>\n
McDonald (3-6) allowed one hit \u2014 a leadoff single by Ketel Marte in the fourth \u2014 and struck out five without a walk. The 25-year-old right-hander was 0-6 with a 6.47 ERA in his previous seven starts.<\/p>\n
Caleb Kilian pitched a 1-2-3 ninth with two strikeouts for his seventh save.<\/p>\n
Ramos, Bericoto, Jung Hoo Lee and Drew Cavanaugh had two hits apiece.<\/p>\n
Ramos hit the first pitch in the fifth 427 feet over the wall in center field. Lee followed with a single and, two pitches later, Bericoto added a 422-foot shot that made it 3-0.<\/p>\n
Rafael Devers walked with two outs in the sixth and Ramos tripled off the top of the wall in center before Lee and Cavanaugh added run-scoring singles that gave the Giants a 6-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Arizona starter Zac Gallen (3-8) gave up six runs and seven hits in 5 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Marte had two hits, including an RBI double, and two stolen bases. Pavin Smith and Corbin Carroll each added an RBI in a four-run eighth.<\/p>\n
The Giants begin a series Friday at Colorado.<\/p>\n
The Diamondbacks host a three-game series against Milwaukee that begins Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Trevor McDonald pitched six scoreless innings, Victor Bericoto hit a two-run homer and the San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,39821,1538,72285,162,92077,851,375,729,4,9500,9501,352,9496,9497,83120,39138,863,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,48585,72305,86],"class_list":["post-740937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco-giants","tag-baseball","tag-caleb-kilian","tag-corbin-carroll","tag-drew-cavanaugh","tag-giants","tag-giants-diamondbacks-score-mcdonald","tag-heliot-ramos","tag-jung-hoo-lee","tag-ketel-marte","tag-mlb","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-pavin-smith","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40774-ap-arizona-sports-only","tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-rafael-devers","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sanfrancisco","tag-sanfranciscogiants","tag-sf","tag-sf-giants","tag-sfgiants","tag-trevor-mcdonald","tag-victor-bericoto","tag-zac-gallen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740937","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=740937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}