San Francisco Giants starter Blake Snell inflated his ERA to 12.86 after surrendering nine hits on five runs against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Fri Apr 19, 2024 (San Francisco Giants X photo)

Friday, April 29th, 2024

By Troy Ewers

SAN FRANCISCO–Winners of two straight for just the second time this season, the San Francisco Giants (9-12) will look to make it three in a row in the second game of this four-game series with the Arizona Diamondbacks (10-11).

Giants starter Blake Snell makes his third start with SF tonight (second here at Oracle Park). Snell has allowed 10 runs on nine hits (12.86 ERA) over his previous two outings while striking out nine. On the other side, Jordan Montgomery will make his D-Backs debut after he was signed to a 1-year contract on March 29th. The Giants got blitzed by Diamondback hitting late in the game getting squashed 17-1 coming away on Friday night at Oracle Park.

Snell had a good first two innings, but Arizona began to pick at him in the third. Blaze Alexander hit what appeared to be a home run, but after review it hit part of the wall and was ruled a ground rule double. Ketel Marte would then hit an RBI single and score Alexander, 1-0 Arizona. 

In the fourth inning Alexander got another double and scored Eugenio Suarez who got on from a walk, 2-0 Arizona. For the Giants, Jorge Soler brought the score within one run with a leadoff solo homer, 2-1 when we ended the 4th. First home run for the Giants at home this season. 

The Diamondbacks piled on Snell in the 5th inning as Christian Walker hit an RBI single and Randal Grichuk hit an RBI double which scored 3 runs total in the inning and that was it for Blake Snell. He ended his night wih 9 hits and 5 runs on him and his slump continues.

Landen Roupp was on the mound after Snell and in the 7th the D-Backs didn’t stop the offensive assault. Bases loaded, Gabriel Moreno got a double that earned 2 insurance runs, 7-1 Arizona, but after Alexander got on base with a walk, Kevin Newman hit a single and scored 2 more runs, 9-1 Diamondbacks. 

Jordan Mongomery left in the seventh, but stood on business in his D-Backs debut. Only four hits and one run during his outing, the one run being Soler’s homer. 

In the eighth inning if the game wasn’t over already, it was official this inning. Six runs scored for the Diamondbacks. Four of those runs came from Blaze Alexander, his third hit of the night was a grand slam, his first grand slam of his career. 15-1 D-Backs. 

The Giants brought in Tyler Fitzgerald to pitch and two more runs scored for Arizona, 17-1. The Giants had one last chance to pull off an amazing comeback and nothing came from it. 

Jordan Montgomery gets the win and Blake Snell gets the loss, his third. 

Next game in the series will be a day game April 20th with Kyle Harrison (2-1, 4.70) for the Giants and Zac Gallen (3-0, 1.64) for the Diamondbacks on the mound first ptich at 1:05pm PDT.