Jay, a Pirates killer who is hitting .333 against them in his career, was 2-for-4 with two doubles. Ketel Marte and Alex Avila homered for Arizona, which has won 10 of 13, including three of four against the Pirates.
Rookie Austin Meadows went 3-for-4 and scored a run for Pittsburgh, which has lost three of four.
Diamondbacks starter Zack Godley (8-5) gave up three runs, two of them earned, and four hits in six innings. He had five strikeouts and three walks. Fernando Salas pitched a scoreless seventh, Jorge De La Rosa 1 2/3 shutout innings, and Jake Barrett got the final out.
Kuhl (5-5) allowed eight runs and eight hits, including two homers, in two-plus innings, with two strikeouts and one walk.
Jay led off the first with a double that bounced into the stands in left, advanced on Paul Goldschmidt's walk and David Peralta's fielder's choice, and scored on Daniel Descalso's sacrifice fly. Ketel Marte followed with a two-run shot, his sixth homer, for a 3-0 lead.
In the second, Nick Ahmed doubled to left and went to third on Jarrod Dyson's single. After Godley bunted Dyson to second, Jay smacked a two-run double to make it 5-0. Goldschmidt then drove in Jay with base hit for a 6-0 Arizona lead.
Ketel Marte singled in the third ahead of Avila's third homer to make it 8-0. That broke an 0-for-18 funk by Avila and chased Kuhl.
Francisco Cervelli hit a one-out RBI single in the fourth for the Pirates' first run. Pittsburgh made it 8-3 with two more runs in the sixth, on Starling Marte's RBI double -- his 800th career hit and 300th career RBI -- and Colin Moran's sacrifice fly.
Avila hit an RBI double in the ninth for the Diamondbacks' ninth run.
--Field Level Media
Arizona | Pittsburgh | |
Zack Godley | Player | Chad Kuhl |
Win | W/L | Loss |
6.0 | IP | 2.0 |
5 | Strikeouts | 2 |
4 | Hits | 8 |
3.00 | ERA | 36.00 |
Arizona | Pittsburgh | |
Alex Avila | Player | Austin Meadows |
2 | Hits | 3 |
3 | RBI | 0 |
1 | HR | 0 |
6 | TB | 3 |
.500 | Avg | .750 |
Team | Hits | HR | TB | Avg | LOB | K | RBI | BB | SB | Errors |
Arizona | 10 | 2 | 20 | .278 | 17 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Pittsburgh | 8 | 0 | 9 | .250 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 |