Giants outlast Diamondbacks in 12 innings
PHOENIX -- Pinch hitter Kelby Tomlinson singled in the winning run with one out in the top of the 12th inning and right-hander Cody Gearrin got a save and played left field in the last of the 12th in the San Francisco Giants' 7-6 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field on Friday.
Brandon Belt walked off Dominic Leone (0-1) to open the 12th before Joe Panik singled. Eduardo Nunez popped out to bring up Tomlinson.
Gearrin got the first out in the last of the 12th inning before moving to left field when Javier Lopez entered to face lefty Jake Lamb.
Lopez walked Lamb and Gearrin returned to the mound. Lamb stole second base and Paul Goldschmidt was intentionally walked before Gearrin struck out Welington Castillo and got Yasmany Tomas to ground out for his third save.
Joe Nathan (2-0) got the victory with a scoreless 11th inning after the Giants blew one-run leads in the seventh and 10th innings.
Hunter Pence had four hits and scored four runs, Nunez had two hits and two RBIs and Belt had two hits for the Giants (75-65), who are tied with the New York Mets and a half-game ahead of St. Louis in the National League wild-card race.
Brandon Drury, Chris Owings and Tomas had two hits apiece for the Diamondbacks (58-82), who have lost six of eight.
The D-backs set franchise records by using 12 pitchers and 26 players in the game that lasted five hours, 23 minutes.
San Francisco took a 6-5 lead in the 10th inning when Pence doubled around walks to Brandon Crawford and Brandon Belt and scored on a wild pitch by Enrique Burgos.
Lamb's pinch-hit homer off Santiago Casilla with one out in the last of the 10th tied it at 6. Lamb has four hits in eight career at-bats against Casilla -- all homers.
Drury and Kyle Jensen had two-run homers to give Arizona a 4-1 lead after three innings. Jensen's homer was the first hit of his career in his third at-bat.
Giants left fielder Angel Pagan broke a 1-for-28 skid with a bases-empty homer for a 5-4 lead in the top of the seventh inning.
Arizona tied it on a walk, a stolen base and center fielder Denard Span's fielding error on Chris Owings' two-out fly ball to deep center. Owings was thrown out at the plate attempting to score.
Giants left-hander Madison Bumgarner gave up four runs and six hits in six innings. He struck out nine and walked one. He was in line for his 100th career victory before Span's error tied the game.
Nunez hit a bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the second inning off Diamondbacks starter Rubby De La Rosa for a 1-0 lead.
De La Rosa was removed after throwing 43 pitches in two innings in his first start since May 25. He was on a pitch limit after missing 14 weeks because of right elbow tendinitis.
Drury's two-out, two-homer off Bumgarner gave Arizona a 2-1 lead in the second inning. Jensen's two-out, two-run homer made it 4-1 in the third.
The Giants cut the deficit to 4-3 with two runs in the fourth inning off Braden Shipley. Pence walked and Belt singled before Panik singled in one run and Nunez doubled in another.
Pence singled to open the sixth inning, took second on a throwing error and scored on Belt's single to tie it at 4.
Arizona center fielder A.J. Pollock left in the second inning after suffering a left groin injury while running out a fly ball an inning earlier.
NOTES: Giants RHP Santiago Casilla will still be used in high-leverage situations, manager Bruce Bochy said, but those could come in the eighth inning. Casilla has converted 31-of-39 save chances, the most blown saves in the National League, and has given up eight earned runs in his last nine innings, with three blown saves in 10 games. Bochy said he could use bullpen matchups when appropriate to close out games. "We're going to use everybody and put out the guy that we think is the right guy that can get us through that inning," he said. ... Arizona transferred SS Nick Ahmed (hip) to the 60-day disabled list to activate RHP Rubby De La Rosa (elbow) for his start Friday. Ahmed underwent season-ending surgery to repair a hip impingement in August. ... San Francisco has won 12 of the last 13 series at Chase Field, including a four-game sweep May 12-15. ... Giants CF Denard Span returned to the lineup after missing two games with a sore knee. ... The Diamondbacks led the league and were third in the majors with a .274 batting average against left-handed pitchers entering the game.