Crawford, Giants send Diamondbacks to 20th road loss in row

Crawford, who wasn’t sure he would even play Monday after a long trip home, hit a two-run homer in the fifth for a 3-1 lead.

“Without Brandon Crawford we aren’t where we are right now,” Casali said.

Carson Kelly hit a solo homer and RBI double for Arizona.

San Francisco loaded the bases in the first with two out against Matt Peacock (2-4). After a mound visit, he induced Mike Tauchman’s inning-ending grounder.

Peacock was done after five innings for his third straight losing start.

Arizona hasn’t won on the road since a 7-0 victory at Atlanta on April 25. This is the club’s second double-digit losing streak this season after a 13-game skid from May 17-29.

“It’s challenging us, it really is,” Kelly said.

San Francisco has won six straight against Arizona, going 11-2 in the NL West matchup since the beginning of the shortened 2020 season and 7-1 at home during that stretch.

Diamondbacks: RHP Zac Gallen (sprained right elbow) is “getting close, that’s a guy I think could win a Cy Young, so that’s awesome,” pitching coach Matt Herges said. … RHP Luke Weaver isn’t yet ready to throw as he works back from a strain in his pitching shoulder. “Luke Weaver is still in the treatment phase, he’s still shut down,” Lovullo said.