Arizona Diamondback starter Merrill Kelly was on all night and shutout the San Francisco Giants at Chase Field in Phoenix on Mon Jul 25, 2022 (AP News photo)

By Michael Duca and Morris Phillips

Arizona Diamondbacks (45-53) pitcher Merrill Kelly who finished what he started on Monday night at Chase Field in Phoenix to open a three game series against the San Francisco Giants (48-48) pitched an eight inning complete game surrendering just three hits and no runs and striking out seven.

Diamondbacks catcher Carson Kelly hit two doubles to contribute to the 7-0 victory with the win the Diamondbacks have now won three out of their last four games since the All Star break. The Giants lost six of their last ten games.

Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo was pleased with just how the game went in general “Just a really good, clean game,” Lovullo said. “I just want to emphasize that when we do things right, it looks very good. I want us to keep working hard every single day so we have more days like this.”

Lovullo was impressed with Kelly’s stuff and left him in to complete the game, “But it was all about Merrill today.” The Giants just haven’t been able to put things together lately on offensive and that gave Kelly an advantage setting down the first 15 batters in row that he faced.

Then in the top of the sixth the Giants Luis Gonzalez hit a ball that stayed inside the first base line and was out of the reach of D-Backs first baseman Christian Walker for a double. Kelly talked about his performance saying that he had good command of his fastball and had a good change up going and he was getting his curveballs to go where he wanted them and gave credit to his catcher Carson.

The Giants will go back to the drawing board to face the Diamondbacks again Tuesday night at Chase Field with Giants starter Carlos Rodon (8-5, 2.95) for the Diamondbacks Tyler Gilbert (0-3, 5.34) a 6:40 pm PDT first pitch at Chase Field.