Ryne Nelson struck out six in seven innings in his strongest start of the season, Ketel Marte added two hits and homered for the second consecutive game, and the Arizona Diamondbacks held off the surging San Francisco Giants 5-2 on Sunday to avoid a series sweep.
Christian Walker extended his career-high hitting streak to 10 games with an RBI double for Arizona. Alek Thomas had three hits for the Diamondbacks, whose lead in the NL West had been trimmed to 1 ½ games over the Giants after San Francisco won the first two games of the series.
J.D. Davis and Luis Matos each had two hits for San Francisco. It was the Giants’ second loss in 14 games and prevented them from completing their fourth series sweep in the last six tries. "We definitely knew we needed to take one from them," Nelson said. "The team just came out and played really well today."
"That’s what I’m trying to do, trying to prove that I can get deep in games," Nelson said. "I’ve been trying to keep the pitch count down to have that opportunity." Thomas doubled against Anthony DeSclafani and scored on McCarthy’s single in the second to make it 2-0.
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