PHOENIX -- Chase De Jong focused on throwing a good two strike pitch.
Geraldo Perdomo was just trying to get a sacrifice bunt down. He would end up being hit by De Jong's aptly-named backfoot breaking ball, loading the bases with nobody out in the seventh.
"I executed a pretty good two strike pitch that he squared around," De Jong would say about what would end up being the game's pivotal pitch.
Two batters later, Emmanuel Rivera shot a one-out double passed a drawn-in Ke'Bryan Hayes, opening the floodgates for a seven-run frame in a 9-3 Pirates loss to the Diamondbacks at Chase Field Thursday.