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Diamondbacks Stop Giants’ Sweep Bid, 5-3, Behind Rodríguez Gem

Rodríguez’s third consecutive win cooled San Francisco’s push in the NL wild-card race.

Overview

  • Eduardo Rodríguez worked 6 1/3 scoreless innings with two hits allowed and six strikeouts, securing his third straight win for Arizona.
  • Giants rookie Carson Seymour was knocked out after 1 1/3 innings, yielding four runs on six hits in his third career start.
  • Geraldo Perdomo opened the game with a leadoff homer and finished 2-for-4 with two RBIs, a walk, and a stolen base.
  • Rafael Devers produced a 418-foot, two-run double off the right-center brick wall that Baseball Savant indicated would leave other parks.
  • San Francisco cut the deficit in the ninth on a Jung Hoo Lee RBI groundout after a Casey Schmitt double, but the Giants fell 5-3 and sat 2.5 games behind the Mets in the wild-card chase, per local reports.