Greinke comes out on top in battle of aces

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SAN FRANCISCO — In a pitching battle that lived up to the hype, Zack Greinke got the better of Madison Bumgarner as the D-backs continued their dominance at AT&T Park with a 2-1 win over the Giants on Wednesday. Arizona has now won nine of 10 and 11 of its last 13 games here.

Greinke and Bumgarner traded zeros through the first six innings before Welington Castillo broke the game open with a two-run homer in the top of the seventh. Yasmany Tomas led off the inning with a single to center and Bumgarner had Castillo down 0-2 before leaving a fastball up and out over the plate that Castillo was able to hit over the wall in left-center.

The Giants cut the lead in half — and chased Greinke from the game — in the bottom of the inning when Gregor Blanco tripled with one out and scored on Angel …

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