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Giants get big blast from Parker, beat Diamondbacks

Related Topics: Jeff Samardzija, Jarrett Parker

Will Sunday be remembered as the day Buster Posey stole two bases for the first time in his career, Jeff Samardzija bat-flipping and trotting on a ball that did not leave the yard or Jarrett Parker hitting a homer that would have made Barry Bonds shake his head?

The Giants looked like a different team over the weekend, which ended in a 6-3 victory that gave them the series over the Diamondbacks.

Parker was the common denominator in the two victories.

A day after hitting a 10th-inning game-ending single, Parker ignited the Giants with a 422-foot homer to right-center, off left-hander Patrick Corbin, and threw J.