by Michael Duca

San Francisco Giants first baseman Brandon Belt had just as tough an outing with the rest of his teammates. For Belt he went 0-3 and the Giants were shutout as a team twice by the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday and Saturday. They figured it out on Sunday with a 5-1 win to take one out of three.

On Friday night the D-Backs Randall Delgado helped in the D-Backs win, the D-Backs used a five man rotation to shutout the Giants and used three pitchers on Saturday in the 2-0 shutout. Rubby De la Rosa, Andrew Chafin, Delgado, Daniel Hudson, Brad Ziegler their MLB pitchers who got a job done on Friday with the five man shutout on the Giants.

Starter De La Rosa has always been a guy with all kinds of respect in the pitching department he went 5.2 innings, one hit, four walks and five strikeouts on Friday at AT&T against the Giants. His ability is remarkable and it was surprising that he was throwing 97-98 with regularity down in the zone.

Giants starter Madison Bumgarner on Friday who went eight innings, five hits, two runs, and Mad Bum pitched well enough to win and gave up one earned run in eight innings you can’t complain about that. It was the fourth time in Bumgarner’s career that he has given up two or fewer runs in a loss.

So what happened for San Francisco on Friday and Saturday is that they had absolutely no hitting whatsoever and they beat themselves left fielder Alejandro De Aza dropped a ball in left field which would have gone for a single most likely and it was scored as a double and it would have been a single and he would have been able to hold the lead runner.

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