The San Francisco Giants have had little to truly hang their hat on this season, but a sweep of the division leading Diamondbacks is certainly something to get them going in the right direction. After taking the first two games of the series, the Giants struck late against the D’backs bullpen and took the game by a score of 4-3.
The Giants scored once in each the eighth and ninth inning. Randy Johnson kept the Diamondbacks in it and left with a 3-2 lead. He went seven strong inning allowing just two runs. The Big Unit struck out nine in the outing and allowed just six hits.
Justin Upton showed more signs of busting out of his slump, having a homer and triple in the game. Upton drove in two runs on the night.
Randy Winn was a thorn in the Diamondbacks pitchers side all night long. He hit a solo homer leading off the fourth against Johnson. Then leading off the ninth inning against reliever Chad Qualls, Winn went deep for the second time in the game. Winn, a switch hitter, homered from each side of the plate in the game.
He had three hits. Winn also scored two and drove in two.
The loss dropped Qualls to 0-5 on the year. Brian Wilson picked up his sixteenth save of the year for the Giants.
