Field Level Media
Jun 21, 2018
Jon Jay drove in two runs and scored twice as the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks roughed up Pittsburgh Pirates starter Chad Kuhl for an early eight-run lead Thursday en route to a 9-3 win.
Jay, a Pirates killer who is hitting .333 against them in his career, was 2-for-4 with two doubles. Ketel Marte and Alex Avila homered for Arizona, which has won 10 of 13, including three of four against the Pirates.
Rookie Austin Meadows went 3-for-4 and scored a run for Pittsburgh, which has lost three of four.
Diamondbacks starter Zack Godley (8-5) gave up three runs, two of them earned, and four hits in six innings. He had five strikeouts and three walks. Fernando Salas pitched a scoreless seventh, Jorge De La Rosa 1 2/3 shutout innings, and Jake Barrett got the final out.
Kuhl (5-5) allowed eight runs and eight hits, including two homers, in two-plus innings, with two strikeouts and one walk.
Jay led off the first with a double that bounced into the stands in left, advanced on Paul Goldschmidt's walk and David Peralta's fielder's choice, and scored on Daniel Descalso's sacrifice fly. Ketel Marte followed with a two-run shot, his sixth homer, for a 3-0 lead.
In the second, Nick Ahmed doubled to left and went to third on Jarrod Dyson's single. After Godley bunted Dyson to second, Jay smacked a two-run double to make it 5-0. Goldschmidt then drove in Jay with base hit for a 6-0 Arizona lead.
Ketel Marte singled in the third ahead of Avila's third homer to make it 8-0. That broke an 0-for-18 funk by Avila and chased Kuhl.
Francisco Cervelli hit a one-out RBI single in the fourth for the Pirates' first run. Pittsburgh made it 8-3 with two more runs in the sixth, on Starling Marte's RBI double -- his 800th career hit and 300th career RBI -- and Colin Moran's sacrifice fly.
Avila hit an RBI double in the ninth for the Diamondbacks' ninth run.
--Field Level Media