The Diamondbacks did it again Monday, and this one came with a little more noise than usual.
Arizona pushed back to .500 at 42-42 by holding off the Giants, and in the process stretched its season-long dominance over San Francisco into franchise-record territory. The D-backs are now 7-0 against the Giants over two series and the first game of a third, the first time they have ever opened a season that way against any opponent.
The win also locked up the season series over a Giants club sitting at 35-49, but the bigger theme was familiar: Arizona needed Eduardo Rodriguez to steady things when the game started to wobble.
The early damage came fast. Ketel Marte led off the first inning by taking Tyler Mahle deep, and that swing moved Marte into a tie for second in Diamondbacks history with 1,182 hits, matching Paul Goldschmidt.
Later, Geraldo Perdomo delivered the kind of hit Arizona has been chasing since Wednesday in St. Louis.
Perdomo, who entered Monday hitting .167 with runners in scoring position after batting .333 in 2025, worked the count to 3-1 and then ripped a double to left field to clear the bases. That blow gave the Diamondbacks some separation and pushed the lead to 4-1.
Nolan Arenado added another familiar note to the night. A career Giants killer, he launched his first home run since June 1, his 36th career homer against San Francisco. Arenado reached base three times in all.
The bigger picture around the club hasn’t changed much, though, and the latest loss for Arizona over the weekend only sharpened the concern. Against the Rays, the Diamondbacks managed just four runs across three games and went 1-for-15 with runners in scoring position. That kind of situational futility has been a problem for more than a month, and it’s not showing signs of easing up.
That’s part of the backdrop as the deadline approaches. Hazen said, “What I want to do and what I’m gonna do may not work in concert with each other,” Hazen said.
“I want this team to make a deep run in the pennant race and into the playoffs, and we’re going to need to add players to do that. I say this every year, I don’t really feel like I’m going to make that decision.
I feel like that decision is going to get handed to me one way or another from the guys down there [in the clubhouse].”
For now, though, Arizona has at least one thing it can hang its hat on: no one has solved the Giants yet.
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