SAN FRANCISCO -- It wasn't one of those close, low-scoring games that the Giants have grown all too familiar with during the first two weeks of the season, but Wednesday afternoon's 7-3 loss to the D-backs seemed to follow the same script: effective starting pitching, but a lack of timely hitting to back it up.
Making his MLB debut in front of his mother, grandmother, brothers and a crowd of 35,041, 25-year-old left-hander Andrew Suarez retired the first 10 hitters he faced, striking out five of them. He only allowed four hits in 5 1/3 innings and attacked the zone, striking out seven without issuing a walk.