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Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> (71-64, third in the NL West) vs. San Francisco Giants<\/a> (55-79, fourth in the NL West)<\/p>\n

San Francisco; Friday, 10:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Diamondbacks: Kohl Drake (0-0); Giants: Blade Tidwell (0-0, 3.58 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 27 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Diamondbacks -129, Giants +105; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The San Francisco Giants face the Arizona Diamondbacks, leading the series 1-0.<\/p>\n

San Francisco is 55-79 overall and 32-34 in home games. Giants hitters have a collective .407 slugging percentage to rank ninth in MLB<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arizona is 71-64 overall and 31-35 in road games. The Diamondbacks are 50-25 in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the 11th time these teams square off this season. The Diamondbacks hold an 8-2 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Bryce Eldridge<\/a> has 16 doubles and 14 home runs for the Giants. Rafael Devers<\/a> is 10 for 36 with a double and four home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Geraldo Perdomo<\/a> has 18 doubles, six triples, nine home runs and 46 RBIs while hitting .254 for the Diamondbacks. Tim Tawa<\/a> is 10 for 35 with two doubles and a home run over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Giants: 4-6, .241 batting average, 3.60 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n

Diamondbacks: 5-5, .239 batting average, 5.52 ERA, outscored by 18 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Giants: Jung Hoo Lee<\/a>: day-to-day (undisclosed), Adrian Houser<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Carson Whisenhunt: 60-Day IL (elbow), J.T. Brubaker: 15-Day IL (ribs), Joel Peguero<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Willy Adames: 10-Day IL (back), Victor Bericoto<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Keaton Winn<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jesus Rodriguez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), Harrison Bader<\/a>: 60-Day IL (plantar fasciitis), Daniel Susac: 60-Day IL (knee), Trevor McDonald<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Matt Chapman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (leg), Marcelo Mayer<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Casey Schmitt: 10-Day IL (leg), Matt Gage<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jose Butto: 60-Day IL (arm), Hayden Birdsong: 60-Day IL (forearm), Randy Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Rowan Wick<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Diamondbacks: Nolan Arenado<\/a>: day-to-day (side), Tommy Troy<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Blake Walston<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Mike Soroka: 15-Day IL (arm), Ketel Marte<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Lourdes Gurriel<\/a> Jr.: 10-Day IL (adductor), Ryan Thompson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Ryne Nelson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Zac Gallen<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), A.J. Puk: 60-Day IL (elbow), Corbin Burnes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cristian Mena: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Andrew Saalfrank<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona Diamondbacks (71-64, third in the NL West) vs. San Francisco Giants (55-79, fourth in the NL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[11710,13491,146,22,4314,5,7905,710,97,38,75686,1533,365,16008,44621,375,40915,729,1447,19,1248,379,12022,4,1028,863,12859,70335,655,5938,66,4622,30242,48585,72305,86],"class_list":["post-790634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-adrian-houser","tag-andrew-saalfrank","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizonadiamondbacks","tag-baseball","tag-blake-walston","tag-bryce-eldridge","tag-corbin-burnes","tag-diamondbacks","tag-event_preview","tag-geraldo-perdomo","tag-harrison-bader","tag-jesus-rodriguez","tag-joel-peguero","tag-jung-hoo-lee","tag-keaton-winn","tag-ketel-marte","tag-lourdes-gurriel-jr","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-marcelo-mayer","tag-matt-chapman","tag-matt-gage","tag-mlb","tag-nolan-arenado","tag-rafael-devers","tag-randy-rodriguez","tag-rowan-wick","tag-ryan-thompson","tag-ryne-nelson","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-tim-tawa","tag-tommy-troy","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\/790634","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=790634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}