The San Francisco Giants starter Logan Webb who threw six innings of shutout ball against the Arizona Diamondbacks for the win fields a Carson Kelly grounder in the top of the sixth inning at Oracle Park in San Francisco (AP News photo)

By Tony The Tiger Hayes

SAN FRANCISCO–The San Francisco Giants (44-42), as they tend to do in their florescent tangerine Tuesday night “City Connect” uniforms, connected early and often on the pitch offerings of the Arizona Diamondbacks (39-49) beleaguered Dallas Keuchel tonight and jumped off to a quick 7-0 lead.

The Giants rapped out six hits, including three booming home runs by Joey Bart, Yermin Mercedes, and Thairo Estrada over the first three innings as San Francisco cruised to a 13-0 win 12th inning at Oracle Park.

The embarrassed D’Backs brought infielder Carson Kelly to pitch the eighth. He promptly surrendered four straight hits and three runs.

Giants starter Logan Webb received the win to increase his record to 8-4. Webb threw six shutout frames, allowing five hits while striking out eight.

He gave way to right-gander Yunior Marte in the seventh inning. Outfielder Luis Gonzalez threw the final frame of the onslaught.

Keuchel, a former 2015 Cy Young Award winner for the Astros, who has fallen on hard times was charged with eight hits and seven earned runs in 2.1 innings.

Keuchel entered the game with an unsightly 7.63 ERA and departed with it bloated to 9.64. His record dropped to 2-7.

The Giants center fielder Austin Slater got the team off to a memorable start when he snagged Arizona’s lead off batter Josh Rojas’ drive with a leaping grab at the wall to begin the game.

Slater began the home half of the first with a lead off double. After Yermin Mercedes doubled and Darin Ruf walked David Villar brought both men home when his sinking drive to right skipped past Jake McCarthy. Villar raced to third and scored on a throwing error on the play to make it 4-0.

The Giants then turned on the power, slugging three long balls that got increasingly more impressive as the night went on.

Bart blasted a 2-0 Keuchel pitch far over the center field wall with one out the second. It was Bart’s 5th long ball on the season and extended the Giants lead to 5-0.

Later that inning with two outs and a runner on, Mercedes smoked a shockingly hard line drive down the left field line that would have killed a sea gull had it been perched on the fence, for a two run homer. The sizzler, Mercedes’ first career Giants long ball was was clocked at 112 miles per hour.

Mercedes, recently acquired from the White Sox had his best games as a Giant, batting 3-for-3, with a walk. The chunky utility man fell a triple shy of hitting for the cycle.

Estrada led off the the third inning by doing his best Andres Galaragga impression by clobbering a long solo home run half way up the left field bleachers. Estrada wasn’t done. He again went deep to left with a two run poke in the seventh to make the score 10-0. Estrada now has a career high nine homers on the season.

The Diamondbacks and Giants conclude the series on Wednesday afternoon at Oracle at 12:45pm PDT starting for Arizona RHP Zac Gallen (4-2, 3.62) and for San Francisco TBA.