Game Preview: Giants At Diamondbacks

(AP) - Having secured their longest win streak in nearly two months, the San Francisco Giants will try to help Jake Peavy earn his first this season.

The veteran right-hander will try to avoid matching the longest streak of losing starts in his career Saturday night against Arizona while the Diamondbacks' Chase Anderson faces the Giants for the first time since a splendid performance last month.

San Francisco (47-43) carried over its superb hitting before the All-Star break into its fourth consecutive victory, 6-5 in 12 innings Friday in Arizona. The Giants had 16 hits in their fourth win in 11 meetings with the Diamondbacks this season, and are batting .392 with 33 runs in their longest win streak since a five-gamer May 25-29.

Peavy (0-4, 4.71 ERA) will try to extend that run while avoiding his second five-start skid in 14 seasons. The other wasn't that long ago from July 12-Aug. 7, part of a career-worst string of 12 consecutive losing decisions.

Peavy has allowed four runs in 13 1-3 innings in his two starts since returning from a back strain that kept him out for nearly three months. He yielded two runs in seven innings in a 4-1 loss to the New York Mets on July 8 and has gotten a combined three runs of support in his four outings.

"I felt a little better, more comfortable," Peavy said. "It's just frustrating when you don't do enough to win."

Peavy gave up four runs in 3 2-3 innings in a 9-0 loss to Arizona on April 17, ending a streak of five winning starts against the Diamondbacks (42-46).

Anderson (4-3, 3.91) took a no-hitter into the seventh inning in his only start against San Francisco, a 1-0 victory June 12, but his recent performances have hardly been up to that level. The right-hander is 1-2 with a 7.77 ERA in his last four starts and gave up four runs in 4 1-3 innings while throwing 101 pitches in a 4-2 loss to the Mets on July 10.

Anderson has allowed a combined seven runs in the opening inning over his past two starts and will try to fix that in his return from an extended break.

"I feel like once I get past the first inning, everything's pretty good from there," Anderson told MLB's official website. "For me to have consistent stuff each and every time, I think I just need to throw a little bit more in the bullpen before the game to be ready for the game."

Arizona will try to avoid its first five-game losing streak since dropping six in a row Sept. 16-21. The Diamondbacks' bullpen had a 1.95 ERA in 15 games before giving up four runs in seven innings Friday.

"We just didn't do a good job tonight," manager Chip Hale said. "We've got to figure it out. It is four (losses) in a row now. We are a better team than that. We had a three-run lead and we couldn't hold that. It is not good."

A.J. Pollock, batting .340 in his 11 contests this month, has four hits in eight lifetime at-bats against Peavy. The outfielder was 2 for 3 versus the right-hander in the win in April en route to the second of his three career four-hit games.

Updated July 18, 2015