In a game that saw the national league's best pitching staff assaulted for 15 runs, it oddly wasn't the lopsided 15-2 score that had the Giants scratching their collective heads after their second straight loss to the division champion Diamondbacks.
Second baseman Mike Fontenot collided with an umpire on a routine ground ball during Arizona's six-run first inning outburst, resulting in a two-run single instead of an out that likely wouldn't have advanced the runners from second and third.
Appartently player-umpire collisions weren't enough, as the lights went out at Chase Field during the seventh inning that gave fans more than a stretch during a 28 minute delay.
San Francisco's strong starting pitching was also out of sort as Eric Surkamp was unable to make it out of the first inning in the shortest start of his young career.
Surkamp was charged with six earned runs in 2/3 innings pitched, sending his ERA from 2.95 to 5.32 in what may likely be his last start of the season.
Arizona starter Ian Kennedy may have been the only normalcy of the night, winning another start to give him a league-high 21 wins for the year (21-4).
After watching the D-Backs celebrate a division title Friday night, Saturday's loss puts the Giants in the rearview mirror of the wild card race, trailing both the St. Louis Cardinals and Atlanta Braves with only games to play.
While the Giants are statistically alive in the wild card standings, San Francisco would have to win all of the remaining games on the schedule while banking on the Braves losing the majority of their late September contests.
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