Diamondbacks 6, Giants 0
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Arizona Diamondbacks continued their mastery of the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park on Saturday, riding seven-hit pitching and a 17-hit attack to a 6-0 victory.
Center fielder A.J. Pollock, right fielder Ender Inciarte and left fielder David Peralta each had three hits as the Diamondbacks improved to 8-1 in San Francisco this season with a sixth consecutive win.
Pollock scored twice, while Inciarte drove in a pair of runs.
Third baseman Jake Lamb and shortstop Chris Owings each had two hits for the Diamondbacks, whose eighth road win against the Giants matched a franchise record.
The Diamondbacks (71-77) will get a chance to better it in the series finale Sunday.
Left-hander Patrick Corbin shut out the Giants on five hits over seven innings.
Right-handers David Hernandez and Josh Collmenter finished up the Diamondbacks' 11th shutout of the season, as the Arizona pitching staff ran its string of consecutive scoreless innings at AT&T to 30 innings.
Corbin (6-4) lowered his career ERA at San Francisco to 1.00 in three starts. He struck out five and did not walk a batter in seven innings, which equaled his longest outing of the season.
Corbin also contributed to the Arizona offense with a run-scoring single in the fifth inning to increase the lead to 4-0.
The loss temporarily dropped the Giants (77-71), defending World Series champions, nine games behind the first-place Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League West.
The Dodgers hosted the Pittsburgh Pirates in a night game Saturday.
Pinch-hitter Ehire Adrianza had the only extra-base hit among the Giants' seven hits, a fifth-inning double.
The assault on Giants pitching began with the first batter of the game, when Pollock smacked a single off San Francisco starter Mike Leake.
Pollock came around on singles by first baseman Paul Goldschmidt and Peralta, recording his 100th run of the season.
The Diamondbacks made it 3-0 in the second on RBI hits by Owings and Inciarte, then ended Leake's day after adding two more hits, but no runs, in the third.
Leake (10-9) left having allowed three runs on eight hits in three innings. He walked one and did not strike out a batter.
The Diamondbacks added single runs against the San Francisco bullpen in the fifth on an RBI single by Corbin, the sixth on Inciarte's second run-scoring hit, and the eighth on an RBI double by catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia.
All nine Arizona starters had at least one hit.
NOTES: Giants 1B Brandon Belt was diagnosed with a concussion after complaining of a headache in Friday's series opener. He is out indefinitely. ... Giants manager Bruce Bochy announced before the game that C/1B Buster Posey would get a majority of the starts at first base in Belt's absence. Posey started at first Saturday, with C Trevor Brown making his major league debut behind the plate. ... The third-place Diamondbacks are closer to catching the second-place Giants (six games behind) than the Giants are to catching the first-place Los Angeles Dodgers (nine games behind). ... The Diamondbacks, with a 10-7 record entering the weekend, already had clinched the season series over the Giants.