Diamondbacks 6, Giants 3: Giant Brooms for Sweeps

PHOENIX, ARIZONA - MAY 20: Ketel Marte #4 of the Arizona Diamondbacks hits a double against the San Francisco Giants during the first inning at Chase Field on May 20, 2026 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images) | Getty Images Every time the D-Backs have a dramatic finish to a game like Ketel Marte’s electric walk-off homer last night, I always half expect the team to show some lethargy the next day. That certainly hasn’t been the case this year to this point and that’s a real credit to the coaching staff and the veteran players who are able to ground the younger, less experienced players around them for the marathon of a season ahead of them.

It also doesn’t hurt when you have a team leader like Marte playing like the MVP-candidate he can be either. Over his last ten games, he owns a . 325/.

378/. 625 slash line and unsurprisingly the team has gone 7-3 in those contests while Marte has bumped his OPS up by nearly 80 points. I knew that there was some positive regression in store for him, but I didn’t quite expect these kinds of results.

If he can continue something even close to this kind of contribution while Corbin Carroll and Nolan Arenado maintain their respective paces, this offense could truly be elite. But even elite offenses need to be buoyed by their pitching and the team certainly got what they needed tonight. I won’t try to pretend that Merrill Kelly has regained the form that made him the second-most valuable pitcher on the team’s pitching staff last year.