Field Level Media
Jul 3, 2021
Thairo Estrada belted his first career grand slam and the San Francisco Giants snapped their season-high, four-game losing streak with an 11-4 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday in Phoenix.
Alex Dickerson and LaMonte Wade Jr. also homered for the Giants, who have won seven of their first eight meetings against Arizona this season. Estrada had three hits and five RBIs.
Giants starter Alex Wood (7-3) allowed two runs on four hits and three walks with eight strikeouts over five innings.
Diamondbacks starter Zac Gallen (1-4) gave up three runs in two-plus innings before leaving due to right hamstring tightness. He yielded five hits and three walks while fanning three.
Eduardo Escobar and Pavin Smith homered for Arizona, which was out-hit 14-7 one day after ending a nine-game, head-to-head losing streak against the Giants with a 5-3 win in Thursday's series opener.
San Francisco was mired in an 0-for-25 skid with runners in scoring position before scoring twice in the second inning.
Gallen allowed the first three batters to reach base and struck out Wood before Wade's sacrifice fly scored Wilmer Flores from third. Mike Yastrzemski followed with a run-scoring single.
The Giants added another run in the third when Dickerson snapped a 1-for-18 slump with a leadoff homer.
Brandon Crawford followed with one of his three hits before Gallen exited the game after throwing a pitch to Flores.
The Diamondbacks cut the deficit to 3-2 on Asdrubal Cabrera's two-run, bases-loaded single in the fourth.
San Francisco responded with two runs in the fifth. Crawford doubled off Matt Peacock and scored on Flores' single down the third base line. Estrada added a run-scoring double with two outs.
The Giants pulled away in the eighth on Wade's two-run homer off Brett de Geus, a 427-foot blast to right field.
Escobar and Smith belted solo homers in the eighth for Arizona, which was looking to win back-to-back games for the first time since May 10-11.
Estrada, making his first start since he was called up to the Giants on Tuesday, hit a grand slam off J.B. Bukauskas in the ninth.
--Field Level Media