Anderson lights out in win

By Jeremy Kahn

SAN FRANCISCO-Chase Anderson was eight outs away from baseball immortality, but Buster Posey got in the way of that.

Anderson threw 6.1 innings of no-hit ball on his way to going seven innings, allowing just that one hit, walking one and striking out two and the Arizona Diamondbacks defeated the San Francisco Giants 1-0 before 41,952, the 358th consecutive sellout at AT&T Park.

Posey hit a comebacker off of Anderson’s calf, and Posey beat it out down the line for the Giants first hit of the game.

The win by the Diamondbacks broke their four-fame losing streak, and gave Anderson his second win of the season.

Madison Bumgarner went eight innings, allowing nine hits (all singles), walking three and striking out seven. This was the first time since last August that Bumgarner pitched at least eight innings in back-to-back starts.

Ender Inciarte drove in the only run of the game in the top of the second inning, as he singled in Wellington Castillo, who singled to lead off the inning.

Joe Panik saw his 15-game hitting streak come to an end, as he went 0-for-4. Panik’s streak of reaching base in 23 straight games also ended. Both streaks were major league highs thus far during the 2015 season.

This was the sixth straight loss by the Giants at AT&T Park, their longest such streak since losing seven in a row from May 14-31, 2008.

Prior to the game it was announced that Hunter Pence was placed on the 15-day disabled list, and the team selected to purchase the contract of right-handed pitcher Michael Broadway from Sacramento.

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