D-backs to recall RHP Brandon Pfaadt to face Giants, Landen Roupp

The Arizona Diamondbacks will be looking to continue their mastery of the San Francisco Giants when the National League West rivals meet in a rematch in Phoenix on Tuesday night.

Having already swept three-game sets both at home and in San Francisco, the Diamondbacks made it seven in a row over the Giants this season with a 5-4 victory in the series opener Monday.

While three big hits -- a bases-clearing double by Geraldo Perdomo and solo homers by Ketel Marte and Nolan Arenado -- wound up producing enough runs to enable the Diamondbacks to prevail, Giants manager Tony Vitello took time afterward to lament a key baserunning blunder by rookie Victor Bericoto as potentially costing a scoring opportunity.

With Marte's first-inning homer having given Arizona a 1-0 lead, the Giants had a rare opportunity against Diamondbacks starter Eduardo Rodriguez in the second when Bryce Eldridge and Bericoto singled with two outs.

With Eric Haase facing a 2-1 count, Bericoto inexplicably wandered well off of first base, getting picked off by catcher Gabriel Moreno to end the threat.

Interestingly, Vitello suggested to reporters afterward that the Diamondbacks might have had a hand in the gaffe.

"I know he's young, but he doesn't play like that," the first-year Giants skipper said of the 24-year-old. "I don't know if the music they crank up threw him off or a pitch earlier, but he just got mixed up on the count."

Hoping for more opportunities to rock Chase Field, the Diamondbacks are scheduled to send Brandon Pfaadt (0-1, 5.92 ERA) to the mound in the second game of the series. He is expected to be opposed by fellow right-hander Landen Roupp (5-7, 4.07).

Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo announced Monday that Pfaadt would be recalled from Triple-A Reno to make the start. It will be his first since April 11, when he was part of the season-opening starting rotation.

He went 0-1 with a 5.94 ERA in three starts, which got him demoted to the bullpen and, eventually, to the minors.

"We knew it was a matter of time before he started to get on a little bit of a run, to get the reps that he needed and find himself back here in the big leagues," Lovullo told reporters of the demotion/promotion. "For right now, we can assume that he's going to be ready to fire here.

"He deserves that opportunity. He did what he was supposed to do. What has he done? He's filled up the zone, he's continuing to shape pitches the right way and attack the zone the right way."

Pfaadt has never beaten the Giants, going 0-4 with a 3.63 ERA in seven head-to-heads, including six starts. His one relief appearance came on May 20 in a 6-3 win, and he threw nine pitches in one scoreless inning.

Roupp has faced the Diamondbacks twice already this season and hasn't gotten much support either offensively or defensively. He started a 5-3 loss at Arizona on May 19 in which he allowed just one run in six innings, then six days later took the loss in a 6-2 home defeat in which two of the four runs he allowed in five innings were unearned.

Both starts were part of an ongoing 10-game stretch in which he's gone winless despite having held the opponent to two or fewer earned runs six times. He started the season with a 5-1 record.

Like his counterpart, Roupp will take the mound Tuesday seeking a first-ever win against the opponent, having gone 0-1 with a 3.48 ERA against the Diamondbacks in five career games, including three starts.

- Field Level Media