SAN DIEGO -- Finally over his health problems Bronson Arroyo on Friday pitched the way the D-backs hoped he would when they signed him this spring.Arroyo tossed seven shutout innings as the D-backs beat the Padres, 2-0, at Petco Park.The win was the second in a row for the D-backs and it came in the first game of a nine-game, three-city trip.Arroyo (2-2) was signed to a two-year free-agent deal just after camp opened and a bulging disc in his back caused him to miss a few starts. That put him behind the other starters and when the season opened he was not quite sharp. 
Then just as he was rounding into shape he came down with a virus that left him feeling under the weather during his last start.Arroyo was feeling better this week and it showed as he kept the Padres off balance, limiting them to just three singles.The D-backs gave him some runs to work with in the third inning when Aaron Hill delivered a two-out, two-run single.That was all that Padres starter Andrew Cashner (2-4) would allow, but it was enough to hang him with a loss.Arroyo committed an error on Padres leadoff hitter Everth Cabrera's first-inning grounder, but that was the only baserunner he allowed until Yonder Alonso's one-out single in the fifth.Brad Ziegler held the Padres at bay in the eighth and closer Addison Reed pitched the ninth to earn his seventh save.Steve Gilbert / MLB.com
Then just as he was rounding into shape he came down with a virus that left him feeling under the weather during his last start.Arroyo was feeling better this week and it showed as he kept the Padres off balance, limiting them to just three singles.The D-backs gave him some runs to work with in the third inning when Aaron Hill delivered a two-out, two-run single.That was all that Padres starter Andrew Cashner (2-4) would allow, but it was enough to hang him with a loss.Arroyo committed an error on Padres leadoff hitter Everth Cabrera's first-inning grounder, but that was the only baserunner he allowed until Yonder Alonso's one-out single in the fifth.Brad Ziegler held the Padres at bay in the eighth and closer Addison Reed pitched the ninth to earn his seventh save.Steve Gilbert / MLB.com
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