Giants find home plate elusive again in fourth straight loss

Giants find home plate elusive again in fourth straight loss

The Giants were nearly shut out for the second straight night in Wednesday’s 2-1 loss to Arizona, their fourth consecutive defeat in the series and seventh in eight games overall.

Welington Castillo shattered the silence of a 0-0 game with a two-run homer to left-center in the seventh inning, after Yasmany Tomas' leadoff single.

Gregor Blanco performed CPR on the offense with a one-out triple in the bottom of the inning.

Angel Pagan, who had the last Giants RBI in the fifth inning Monday, flipped a two-out single to left to end an 18-inning scoreless streak.

Bumgarner carried a one-hitter into the sixth and had no stress until singles by Greinke and Brandon Drury put runners on the corners with two outs and Goldschmidt at the plate.

Denard Span's first-pitch single and Joe Panik's walk gave the Giants three cracks at getting a runner home from scoring position in the first inning, but Buster Posey flied out after falling behind 0-2 and Greinke struck out Brandon Belt and Brandon Crawford.

Matt Duffy doubled with one out in the fourth only to die at third when Bumgarner struck out from the eighth spot, an experiment that seems to have a lot of Giants pitcher batting with two outs and runners in scoring position.

Bumgarner replaced "Fire on the Mountain" as his entry music in favor of "Bad Company" by Five Finger Death Punch, which foreshadowed his start against the Diamondbacks until the moment Castillo’s seventh-inning drive left the yard.