De La Rosa bites the Giants

By Jeremy Kahn

SAN FRANCISCO-Rubby De La Rosa pitched the game of his life, and as usual it was San Francisco Giants nemesis Paul Goldschmidt who did them in.

Goldschmidt doubled down the left field line and advanced to third on a Alejandro De Aza fielding error that scored A.J. Pollock with the only run that the Arizona Diamondbacks would need in the top of the sixth inning on their way to a 2-0 victory over the Giants before a crowd of 41,346, the 399th consecutive sellout at AT&T Park.

Wellington Castillo drove in the second Diamondbacks run of the frame, as he hit a ground ball to Brandon Crawford at short and Goldschmidt eluded Buster Posey’s tag for the second run of the game.

De La Rosa pitched an exceptional game for the Diamondbacks, as he went 5.2 innings, allowing just one hit, while walking four and striking out five on his way to his 13th win of the season.

Madison Bumgarner failed in his first attempt to get his career-high 19th win of the season, as he went eight innings, allowing two runs on five hits, walking three and striking out seven and saw his record fall to 18-8 on the season.

Matt Duffy got the first hit of the game for the Giants in the bottom of the fourth inning, and that would be the last hit until the bottom of the ninth inning when Posey picked up the Giants second hit of the night with one out , as he hit a single into left-center field off of Diamondbacks closer Brad Ziegler.

The only other baserunners to reach were all via walks, as Angel Pagan walked twice, De Aza walked once, Posey was intentionally walked during the Giants one and only attempt at a rally in the bottom of the sixth inning.

Both Pagan and De Aza walked with one out, after a ground out off the bat of Duffy, Posey was intentionally walked to load the bases, Brandon Belt grounded out to Brandon Drury at second base to end the inning.

Jarrett Parker, who hit his first home run of his major league career on Tuesday night was robbed of a second, as Pollock made a terrific catch to save the shutout for the Diamondbacks.

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