PHOENIX -- The day off Monday for the final game of the NCAA Tournament played across town might have been a good thing for both the San Francisco Giants and the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Each needed time to recover from the Diamondbacks' 6-5 comeback victory Sunday.
The Giants, who spent $65.2 million on closer Mark Melancon last winter to fix the bullpen, opened the season with the same malady that caused their 2016 exit -- the blown save. Arizona scored two runs after the first two hitters were retired in the last of the ninth inning for the first walk-off victory in a season opener in their 20-year franchise history.