Robbie Ray dominated Thursday, tossing his second career complete game to lead the San Francisco Giants to a 7-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix.
The left-hander retired the first 12 batters he faced, gave up only three hits, a walk and struck out seven. Ray (9-3) needed just 102 pitches to go the distance. Beating his old team gave Ray his first win since June 5 and helped the Giants salvage a split in the four-game series.
Willy Adames scored three runs and doubled twice as part of a 3-for-4 night with a walk and an RBI. Helios Ramos went 2-for-5 and drove in two runs. Mike Yastrzemski finished 3-for-5 with a run scored as the Giants won for their second straight after losing seven of their previous eight.
Rafael Devers plated three over the final three innings, the most he’s had since coming to the Giants from Boston on June 15.
Brandon Pfaadt (8-6) gave up four runs on six hits and two walks over six innings. His eight strikeouts set a season high, but two tough innings led to the loss.
Eugenio Suarez and Ketel Marte homered for the Diamondbacks, who have lost six of their last eight games.
The Giants pounced on Pfaadt early thanks to walks to Adames and Devers. Adames scored on Ramos’ double, with Devers getting home on Lee’s sacrifice fly to deep center.
Pfaadt needed 26 pitches to escape the first inning. Meanwhile, Ray used only 27 over the first three.
San Francisco’s top of the order put another two up in the third. Adames doubled off the wall in center that scored Yastrzemski, who singled to lead off the inning, from first. An out later, he scored on Ramos’ single.
The Diamondbacks finally got to Ray when Suarez homered to left leading off the fifth. That hit did not faze Ray, who got the next three batters out on just six pitches.
He threw just 78 pitches through eight innings before giving up Marte’s homer in the ninth and a walk to Geraldo Perdomo.
–Field Level Media
