Photo courtesy of San Francisco Giants. Lamonte Wade Jr. and Joc Pederson celebrate Wade’s solo home run.

By Titus Wilkinson (@TitusWisme)

SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants closed out their home series against the Diamonbacks with a win by a final of 1-0.

Thursday was a bullpen game for the Giants as Scott Alexander got the start with a 6-1 record and 3.13 ERA. While for the Diamondbacks Brandon Pfaadt started with a 0-4 record and an 8.20 ERA.

The defense got off to a quick start for the orange-and-black as Emmanueal Rivera hit into a double play and Tommy Pham flew out to right field ending the top of the first.

Heading into the second Tristan Beck came onto the mound to pitch for the Giants who going in had a 2-0 record with a 2.94 ERA.

Once again in the top of the third, the Giants gave up a lead hit that they then turned into a double play with this time the culprit being Corbin Carroll.

The first run in this game didn’t come until the fourth inning when Lamonte Wade Jr. launched one over the right field wall giving San Francisco a 1-0 lead. The exit velocity on the home run was 103.2 mph and it flew 396 ft.

Taking over for Beck in the sixth would be Sean Manea who coming in had a 3-3 record with a 5.43 era. Beck unsurprisingly had another solid outing giving up only three hits while striking out three batters.

Manaea’s day however did not last long as he only faced three hitters with the third hitter he faced drawing a walk. Coming in to replace Manaea was Luke Jackson who came in with a 1-0 record and 1.54 ERA.

After Jackson came in Carroll attempted to steal second and on the throw Patrick Bailey and Isan Diaz were not able to connect as the ball rolled to the outfield letting Carroll advance to third. For the orange-and-white that play didn’t end up mattering that much as Rivera flew out to end the inning.

Jackson put on quite the showing in the seventh as he struck out three batters straight preserving the Giants’ one-run lead. In the eighth, Taylor Rogers took over Jackson and got into some trouble as Arizona got two on with only one out.

Rogers was able to deal with the pressure and got Carroll out and then faced Rivera. Rivera then lined one right at Rogers hitting him up high and hard. He fought through the pain though and threw the ball to first to end the inning.

The eighth saw Arizona make their first pitching change of the game as Kevin Ginkel replaced Pfaadt. It was a strong outing for Pfaadt who only gave up two hits struck out seven and walked one hitter.

Ginkel was able to close things down in the eighth meaning Camilo Doval had only a one run as support.

The ninth got off to a good start for Doval who struck out Tommy Pham but then back-to-back singles cranked up the tension in the building. Perdomo then hit into a fielder’s choice in which Casey Schmitt setted for the out at second leaving runners on the corners. Despite the pressure tranquilo Camilo was able to get Jace Peterson to fly out ending the game 1-0.

“We don’t let the at-bats carry over to our defense and I feel like that’s why we play clean defense for the most part,” Lamonte Wade Jr. said after the game.

The Giants have an off day Friday and then play the A’s on Saturday at 4:07 p.m., where they kick off a two-game series in Oakland. No starters have been announced as of yet.