Casilla recorded his 21st save despite allowing a one-out double, the only hit off the San Francisco bullpen, to Phil Gosselin in the ninth.The Giants added an insurance run in the sixth inning on Tejada’s double that scored pinch-hitter Gregor Blanco, who walked.Belt opened the scoring in the third inning with a triple.
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Bumgarner had fanned five consecutive when Jake Lamb finally put a ball into play with two out in the fifth inning. They fell to 10-20 in series finales.Bumgarner’s bid for a flawless game ended with two outs in the top of the fifth when Lamb hit a fly ball toward the right field line.
Beyond that, San Francisco’s four-time All-Star was nearly untouchable while notching his fourth career one-hitter.
Bumgarner made it look easy Sunday. San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Madison Bumgarner, left, delivers against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the third inning of a baseball game on Sunday, July 10, 2016, in San Francisco. After Bumgarner started the eighth by striking out Toms, matching his career high of 14, Lamb managed to pull a 2-2 slider and dump it into right field for a clean single.
The Giants will also have to wait for another opportunity to become the first team to throw a no-hitter in five straight seasons. Matt Cain threw a ideal game in 2012, Tim Lincecum no-hit the Padres in 2013 and 2014 and then-rookie Chris Heston had one in 2015. The only thing keeping the All-Star starter from a flawless game to that point was an error by Gregor Blanco in the fifth inning. He was 3-0 with a 1.37 ERA in his previous four home starts and knew he would get a nine-day break before his next assignment. He was 9-4 this season with a 2.09 ERA and 132 strikeouts entering Sunday. They also did it in 1993 with a 59-30 mark.
Goldschmidt had two hits while Yasmany Tomas and Brandon Drury each drove in a run for Arizona.
Lamb singled into right field – one out short of Bumgarner’s longest personal no-hit bid at 7 2/3 innings – and the inning ended abruptly after the hit when Brandon Drury grounded into a double-play.
“The fun thing about what’s happening is everyone is doing something”, Giants manager Bruce Bochy said.
“I did, actually”, he said. “That’s why I don’t have a problem with it. You can increase this roster another 10 players and somebody’s still going to get snubbed”. “That’s all right. I’ll take the complete-game shutout anytime”. “We’re seeing light at the end of the tunnel”, Bochy said. Josh Osich won his left-handed matchup when he got Lamb to ground out to strand the tying runs on base. The Diamondbacks are in last place with 38 wins, tied with the Padres.
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SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco Giants reliever Javier Lopez jabbed his glove in the direction of the ground ball tumbling back at him Saturday, but in some corner of his brain, he instantly recalled that the Giants played a shift against the hitter, Arizona’s Jake Lamb. AP material published by LongIsland.com, is done so with explicit permission.
