The SFGiants lost their seventh straight game as the D-backs finished off a three-game sweep.
Thairo Estrada was talked about quite a bit on Tuesday night, but not for a good reason. Estrada was on the receiving end of the bat thatEstrada brought the first Giants run home with a single to right on an 0-2 pitch from Zac Gallen. That knock sent Luis Gonzalez to third, and when Estrada stole second a few minutes later, Gonzalez raced home to give the Giants the lead. Estrada later added a double to left, also on an 0-2 pitch, and a single.
The game was tied when speedy Jake McCarthy -- a thorn for the Giants over the last month -- put a bunt down and reached just ahead of Webb's throw to first. That was followed by a grounder to short that would have been a double play in a normal alignment but put runners on the corners because of the shift. Then came the bunt that brought two runners home.
The sequence left Webb with four earned in 6 1/3 innings. He allowed seven hits, walked one and struck out five. This was Webb's ninth consecutive start of at least six innings, which moved him up to third in the Majors in innings pitched.Sam Long and the coaching staff have been working hard to figure out what to do about his splits, but there was no solution on Wednesday.
Entering the day, lefties were 21-for-46 against Long with a slugging percentage over .800, a huge change from last season, when he held them to a .164 average. The silver lining is that Long is holding righties to a .152 average this year. He has the repertoire to get lefties out consistently, and if he does, he'll have a lengthy big league career.
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