Arizona Diamondbacks at San Francisco Giants

SAN FRANCISCO – For one night in an otherwise dismal season, Oracle Park echoed greater times.  Thursday night’s crowd was announced as a sellout, and the place was rocking during a four-run eighth inning that secured the Giants’ 6-1 win over the Diamondbacks. A postgame Pokémon drone show had kept people from slinking out early. The Giants played as fundamentally solid a game as they had all year and, like those years when banners were raised, the bullpen prospered with four shutout innings, three while protecting a one-run lead. That performance carried more weight than usual because it happened one night after the bullpen shouldered Wednesday’s historic, seven-run collapse in the ninth inning. Manager Tony Vitello spoke to the players about rising to the challenges of evicting memories of that 10-9 loss to the Reds, as well as taking on an Arizona team that beat the Giants eight straight times to start the season. The Giants carried that message onto the field. “We haven’t really done that all year, come back from a tough loss and really show the grit that we still have,” shortstop Christian Koss said. Vitello went further, arguing this might have been the biggest of the Giants’ 55 wins this year. “You could throw tomatoes at our record,” Vitello said, “or say a playoff win would be better, \[winning\