Patrick Bailey came close to hitting for the cycle with his four hits in the San Francisco Giants’ 7-3 victory Saturday over the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Bailey, who went 4 for 4 with three RBIs, had recorded a single, double and home run when he went to the plate in the seventh inning.
He hit the ball to the alley in left-center field and appeared to be running hard with the determination of going for a triple to complete the cycle but the ball bounced over the fence, making the hit a ground-rule double.
Arizona starter Zac Gallen, trying to become the first major league pitcher with four victories this season, did not pitch beyond the fifth inning after giving up a two-run home run by Bailey with two outs in the fifth.
Gallen was close to getting a 1-2-3 inning, but Wilmer Flores singled on a 2-1 count before Bailey belted his home run that gave the Giants a 5-3 lead.
Gallen (3-1) allowed nine hits and five runs with six strikeouts and one walk in five innings.
Arizona scored in the first inning after Lourdes Gurriel Jr. doubled with two outs.
Christian Walker followed with a single to bring Gurriel home.
San Francisco responded in the bottom of the first with Jung Hoo Lee hitting a leadoff home run.
The Giants later scored in the inning to take a 2-1 lead on a Flores sacrifice fly following consecutive singles by Lamonte Wade Jr. and Jorge Soler.
San Francisco scored another run in the third inning after Wade hit a single to lead off the inning.
Wade advanced to second base and then third base following two separate wild pitches by Gallen.
He scored on a double hit by Bailey that gave San Francisco a 3-1 lead.
Arizona rallied for two runs in the top of the fourth to tie the game against starter Kyle Harrison.
Blaze Alexander hit an RBI double with one out and Kevin Newman scored Alexander with a single with two outs.
An RBI double by Lee and RBI single by Michael Conforto in the eighth increased the Giants’ lead to 7-3.
Five relievers who followed Harrison limited the Diamondbacks to one hit over the last five innings. Harrison finished with five strikeouts over four innings to go along with six hits, three runs and one walk surrendered.
Ryan Walker (2-2) was credited with the win.
–Field Level Media