SF Giants can't protect another early lead, drop fourth straight game
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SF Giants can't protect another early lead, drop fourth straight game
"For the second time in the last four days, the Giants have scored four runs in the first inning against a left-handed pitcher. For the second time in the last four games, the Giants have failed to protect that early lead. San Francisco dropped its fourth straight game on Tuesday night at Chase Field, losing 6-5 to the Arizona Diamondbacks as Ryan Walker allowed a walk-off infield single to Jordan Lawlar in the bottom of the ninth."
"The Giants jumped out to a commanding lead in the top of the first by putting up a four-spot against the Diamondbacks' Eduardo Rodriguez. Matt Chapman's sacrifice fly, Wilmer Flores' RBI single and Jerar Encarnacion's two-run double amounted to a 4-0 lead before Tristan Beck threw his first pitch of the night. Beck began his first start of the evening by retiring the side in the first."
San Francisco scored four runs in the first inning against a left-handed pitcher, taking a 4-0 lead on a sacrifice fly, an RBI single and a two-run double. The Diamondbacks rallied, scoring three in the second and adding runs in the fifth to tie the game at five. Wilmer Flores hit a solo homer, his 16th of the season. The game ended 6-5 when Ryan Walker allowed a walk-off infield single to Jordan Lawlar in the bottom of the ninth. The Giants have dropped four straight games and sit three games behind the final NL wild-card spot. Butto escaped a seventh-inning jam after a collision involving Flores while fielding a chopper.
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