PHOENIX -- Angel Pagan's three-run homer topped off a five-run outburst in Thursday's eighth inning that carried the Giants to a 8-5 triumph over the Arizona Diamondbacks.San Francisco, which captured three games in the four-game series, trailed 5-3 when Hunter Pence drew a one-out walk from D-backs reliever Will Harris to launch the eighth-inning rally. Pence scored on Hector Sanchez's double.One out later, pinch-hitter Buster Posey drew an intentional walk. Another pinch-hitter, Michael Morse, grounded a single up the middle to drive in pinch-runner Juan Perez with the tying run. 
Up came Pagan, who drove Harris' first pitch into the right-center-field pool area.Tim Lincecum pitched six mostly capable innings but lapsed twice, allowing two-run homers to Paul Goldschmidt and Mark Trumbo.D-backs starter Bronson Arroyo lacked his usual dominance against the Giants. He yielded two runs but lasted just 4 1/3 innings.The Giants opened the scoring with two outs in the first inning on Brandon Belt's third home run in four games. Arizona responded in predictable fashion in its half of the first, when Goldschmidt followed Aaron Hill's bloop single with his homer. For his career, Goldschmidt is 12-for-23 with six home runs and 13 RBIs off Lincecum.San Francisco pulled even in the fourth as Pablo Sandoval doubled, advanced on Pence's single and scored on Sanchez's sacrifice fly.After Trumbo's homer widened Arizona's lead to 4-2 in the sixth, the Giants shaved the difference in the seventh on Brandon Hicks' first career pinch-hit homer, a drive into the second deck off Josh Collmenter.The D-backs offset that run in their half of the inning. Reliever David Huff did not properly cover first base on a potential double-play grounder, leaving Gerardo Parra aboard to score on Hill's double.Chris Haft / MLB.com
Up came Pagan, who drove Harris' first pitch into the right-center-field pool area.Tim Lincecum pitched six mostly capable innings but lapsed twice, allowing two-run homers to Paul Goldschmidt and Mark Trumbo.D-backs starter Bronson Arroyo lacked his usual dominance against the Giants. He yielded two runs but lasted just 4 1/3 innings.The Giants opened the scoring with two outs in the first inning on Brandon Belt's third home run in four games. Arizona responded in predictable fashion in its half of the first, when Goldschmidt followed Aaron Hill's bloop single with his homer. For his career, Goldschmidt is 12-for-23 with six home runs and 13 RBIs off Lincecum.San Francisco pulled even in the fourth as Pablo Sandoval doubled, advanced on Pence's single and scored on Sanchez's sacrifice fly.After Trumbo's homer widened Arizona's lead to 4-2 in the sixth, the Giants shaved the difference in the seventh on Brandon Hicks' first career pinch-hit homer, a drive into the second deck off Josh Collmenter.The D-backs offset that run in their half of the inning. Reliever David Huff did not properly cover first base on a potential double-play grounder, leaving Gerardo Parra aboard to score on Hill's double.Chris Haft / MLB.com
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