So it was fifth starter roulette again tonight for our Arizona Diamondbacks, and for good or ill we wound up with lefty Tyler Gilbert, he of last year’s flash-in-the-pan no-hitter, taking the mound for us, facing off against Giants lefty and familiar foe Alex Wood. I wasn’t expecting good things from Gilbert, honestly—after two decent starts in April, he was utterly wretched in a start in May, and another last month, and has been spending the in-between times hanging out in Reno.
And....actually, Gilbert wasn’t bad tonight, all things considered. He gave up a single to the first batter he faced to begin the game, and walked the first batter he faced in the top of the third, but thanks to some timely and mildly wacky double play action, he managed to get through three innings without allowing a run and having only faced the minimum nine batters.