By Jeremy Kahn
SAN FRANCISCO-
Wade Miley made the San Francisco Giants miss all day, and as a result of that, he came away with his fifth win of the season.
Miley went seven innings, allowing zero runs on four hits, walking three and striking out four, as the Arizona Diamondbacks defeated the Giants 2-0 before crowd of 41,267, the 298th consecutive sellout at AT&TPark.
This was the 10th time this season that the Giants have been shutout, and the second time this week, as they were shutout on Monday against the Oakland A’s.
By shutting out the Giants on this day, this was the first time that the Diamondbacks shut the Giants since August 27, 2010,
Aaron Hill supplied the only offense that Miley would need, as he planted a Ryan Vogelsong pitch into the left-center field seats for his seventh home run of the season in the top of third inning.
Hill added a double in the top of the seventh inning, went to third on a Martin Prado groundout and then scored on a Gerardo Parra single.
Ryan Vogelsong was the hard luck loser, as he went six and one-third innings, allowing two runs on six hits, walking no one and striking out four, as he saw his record on the season fall to 5-7.
Vogelsong became the first Giants pitcher since Lynn McGlothen from April 16, 1977 to May 1, 1977 to receive no runs of support during a single season in four successive starts this according to STATS, LLC.
Jonathan Sanchez went four straight starts between September 12, 2007 to April 9, 2008 without receiving any run support, according to STATS, LLC.
Tyson Ross of the San Diego Padres was the last pitcher to go four straight starts without receiving runs in four straight starts from June 6-June 21, 2014, according to STATS, LLC.
Marco Scutaro made his long-awaited season debut, and despite the fact that he did not get a hit, Scutaro showed the AT&TPark crowd why he was worthy of coming back with his defense.
Scutaro made a dazzling play to end the top of the second inning, as he flipped the ball out of his glove to get Parra out at first base.
The Scutaro play was the second great play in a row by the Giants, as Hunter Pence made a great diving catch in right field Prado of a possible extra base hit.
Pablo Sandoval made a great play to end the top of the fifth inning, as he dove into the hole to snare a Paul Goldschmidt grounder, get up and throw to Brandon Belt to retire the side.
After Michael Morse flew out to leadoff the top of the seventh inning, Belt walked, then Joaquin Arias singled to bring up Gregor Blanco to face Miley.
Blanco hit a chopper to first base that Goldschmidt fielded, threw to Miley and first base umpire Gabe Morales called Blanco safe; however Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson challenged the ruling and after a one minute 53 second review, the play was overturned and Blanco was called out.
Hector Sanchez then came up to pinch-hit for Jeremy Affeldt, and he was robbed of hit, when Goldschmidt snared the Sanchez ball that would have tied up the game.
Morse extended his hitting streak to nine games after singling off of Miley in the bottom of the fourth inning, matching his season high, as he also hit in nine straight from April 2-April 11.
