D-Backs edge Giants, spoil Bumgarner’s season debut
SAN FRANCISCO — Madison Bumgarner tossed six solid innings in his long-awaited season debut but was outpitched by Patrick Corbin as the Arizona Diamondbacks held off San Francisco 3-2 on Tuesday night, ending the Giants’ five-game winning streak.
More than two months after breaking the pinkie on his pitching hand during his final start of spring training, Bumgarner (0-1) allowed two runs and eight hits in his first regular-season outing. San Francisco’s ace left-hander struck out three and didn’t walk a batter.
Corbin (6-2) struck out seven over 6 1/3 innings, permitting one run and four hits with two walks.
Buster Posey hit an RBI single with two outs in the ninth and Andrew McCutchen followed with a single before Brad Boxberger retired Evan Longoria on a groundout to earn his 14th save.
Bumgarner had so hoped to start this season on a positive note after he missed nearly three months in 2017 following an April 20 dirt bike accident sustained during an off day in Colorado. But after breaking his left pinkie in March when it was hit by a line drive, he underwent surgery to have three pins inserted and then later had them removed.
He threw 17 pitches in the first, 12 strikes, and allowed Paul Goldschmidt’s single for the first of three hits by the slugger. Bumgarner was tagged for two runs in the second, when he gave up consecutive doubles to Ketel Marte and Chris Owings to start the inning, then Kristopher Negron’s RBI single.
Corbin struck out the side in the fifth with the bases loaded to escape a huge jam.
Bumgarner, who has two career grand slams, struck out swinging and slammed the barrel of his bat into the dirt in disgust — his 12th strikeout lifetime with the bases full. Gorkys Hernandez and Posey also struck out as the Giants struggled to deliver key hits one night after a 10-3 win.
The Giants missed scoring opportunities in the seventh and eighth.
Starting opposite Bumgarner for the third time in his career and first at AT&T Park, Corbin retired his first 11 batters before McCutchen’s two-out single in the fourth.
Corbin won at San Francisco for the first time since Sept. 19, 2015. He is 3-0 with a 1.30 ERA in his last four starts versus the Giants and 5-1 in his last 11 road outings, 10 starts.
Goldschmidt’s groundrule double in the fifth came on the ninth pitch he saw from Bumgarner.