Mistakes costly as D-backs lose fourth straight

PHOENIX -- Whether it was the five-plus hours his team was on the field or the four days off over the All-Star break, to Diamondbacks manager Chip Hale there was not acceptable excuse for his team's costly mistakes Friday night.

The Diamondbacks blew a three-run lead, then lost the game on a throwing error. There were plenty of other miscues in the Diamondbacks' 6-5, 12-inning loss to the San Francisco Giants at Chase Field, and Hale was not pleased with much of anything afterward.

"We just didn't do a good job tonight," he said. "We've got to figure it out. It is four (losses) in a row now. We are a better team than that. We had a three-run lead and we couldn't hold that. It is not good. It is not a good result. You make mistakes against a team like that they are very veteran-laden and they took it to us."

Shortstop Cliff Pennington's throwing error allowed the winning run.

"We played very poor fundamentally," Hale said. "Baserunning, defense, we made too many mistakes, executing in hitting situations with men on third, we just did a poor job."

With the bases loaded and one out, Pennington -- who entered in the 11th -- fielded Angel Pagan's bouncer and threw home to try to get the forceout. But the throw bounced in front of the plate and got past catcher Welington Castillo.

The Giants' Hunter Pence had tied the game with a two-run homer in the three-run seventh and added a double and single. Joe Panik, Brandon Crawford and Matt Duffy also had three hits apiece for the Giants.

Crawford also made two outstanding defensive plays to throw out Diamondbacks runners at third base.

Ryan Vogelsong (7-6), the last of 10 pitchers used by the Giants, threw two scoreless innings to get the victory. Vogelsong went to the pen at the All-Star break to make room in the rotation for Monday's anticipated return of Tim Hudson. It was Vogelsong's third career win in relief, first since Sept. 14, 2005.

Randall Delgado (4-3) gave up the unearned run in two innings for the loss.

Chris Owings homered and David Peralta had three hits, two of them triples, for Arizona, which lost its fourth straight. The Diamondbacks' A.J. Pollock doubled twice and scored both times and Paul Goldschmidt had two sacrifice flies.

Crawford singled to start the 12th and, with one out, Gregor Blanco walked. Vogelsong then put down a bunt that got past Delgado for a single to load the bases and bring up Pagan.

After a pinch hit RBI double from Aaron Hill, Arizona took a 5-2 lead into the seventh, when the Giants rallied against reliever Enrique Burgos. One-out singles by Panik and Duffy put runners at first and third and Buster Posey brought a run home with a sacrifice fly. That brought up Pence, who sent an 0-1 pitch into the seats in right field and it was 5-5.

For the second time this season, a downpour led to a couple of leaks in the Chase Field roof, one onto the pitcher's mound near the rubber. This time the grounds crew seemed ready, taking a shovel and rake to work on the mound between the seventh and eighth innings.

The roof leaked in a 7-2 win over the New York Mets on June 5. As it did the first time, it leaked much harder just in front of the screen behind home plate.

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The game was the third-longest in Chase Field history at 5 hours and 11 minutes, an exhausting re-start to the season after the All-Star break rest.

"It felt like the first of the year when the game started," Crawford said. "Now it feels like July again."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.