Giants top Diamondbacks 8-7 for 3rd straight win

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — LaMonte Wade Jr. scored the winning run with two outs in the ninth inning when first baseman Christian Walker failed to handle Kris Bryant's sharp grounder, and the San Francisco Giants danced on the field celebrating an 8-7 victory against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night.

The Giants won their third straight and fifth in six games, doing it the hard way after going up 5-0 in the fifth.

Brandon Crawford hit a go-ahead double in the eighth and Buster Posey homered. After scoring from first on Crawford's hit, Posey came up from his feet-first slide smiling and told Bryant, “I'm so fast.”

Asdrúbal Cabrera tied the game with a two-run homer in the Diamondbacks' five-run sixth. Arizona produced three straight doubles to rally and five extra-base hits in all that inning, capped by Cabrera's seventh homer.

Crawford came through against Joe Mantiply and later scored on an error before Jake McGee blew the save, allowing his first earned runs since May 30. He issued a bases-loaded walk to pinch-hitter Josh VanMeter and gave up a tying sacrifice fly to Nick Ahmed before Zack Littell (1-0) relieved.

Bryant hit an RBI double in the first and Mike Yastrzemski followed with a two-run double that made it 3-0 as Zac Gallen received an early mound visit. Posey connected in the fifth for his 14th homer and glanced at the Arizona dugout, perhaps looking for old pal Madison Bumgarner.

Brandon Belt doubled in the first to extend his career-best hitting streak to 14 games and scored on Bryant’s hit as San Francisco got going.

But starter Alex Wood couldn't hold a five-run lead. He had been in line to reach double-digit wins for the first time since a career-high 16 victories in 2017 for the Dodgers.

Gallen's winless stretch is now 11 starts in which he's 0-6...

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