PHOENIX (AP) — Jean Segura is batting a cool .400 in his home ballpark after the four hits he registered Monday night in the Arizona Diamondbacks’ 12-7 win over the St. Louis Cardinals.

One of the four hits was a go-ahead three-run home run in the sixth inning that came during a historic turn at bat for the Diamondbacks.

“I was not ready for an inside pitch. I just reacted to that pitch and I just hit it out,” Segura, a first-year Diamondback, said. Then he was asked about hitting at Chase Field. “Even when I was a visitor I loved to play here. Everything is going to my favorite side.”

Segura’s blast highlighted Arizona’s nine-run sixth inning and made ace Zack Greinke a winner despite allowing seven runs. The Cardinals bullpen was rocked in the sixth after starter Jaime Garcia was removed with two runners on base.

Greinke (2-2) lasted 6 2/3 innings and gave up 11 hits. He’s surrendered 21 runs in five starts and has a 6.16 earned run average.

“I thought I did all right. It’s just kind of embarrassing giving up seven runs thinking you did all right,” Greinke said. “I’ll take it, as long as it’s not like that all the time.”

Matt Bowman (0-1) gave up a run-scoring single to Chris Owings, his second RBI of the night, and Greinke helped himself by bouncing a single through a drawn-in infield that was expecting a bunt with two strikes.

Kevin Siegrist entered with one out and served up Segura’s fourth home run of the season, a line drive into the left field seats. Siegrist then put two runners on and was taken out in favor of Seth Maness, who surrendered Yasmany Tomas’ RBI double, Welington Castillo’s two-run single and another RBI single for Owings.

“The guys battled back again,” Arizona manager Chip Hale said. “It’s a real relentless attitude.”

The three relievers were charged with six combined earned runs. The nine-run inning tied for the third-most productive in Diamondbacks history and most ever for Arizona against St. Louis in one inning, and those in the crowd cheering for the home team gave it a standing ovation with the final out after 14 batters came up the plate.

“We put up those kind of runs against a pitcher like Greinke, we’ve got to figure out a way to get it done,” Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. “Siegrist was our most rested guy and it ended being a rough inning for us.”

Rookie Jeremy Hazelbaker, a mid-game injury replacement, hit a two-run home run in his first at-bat of the game for St. Louis. Hazelbaker took Greinke deep with two outs in the top of the fifth inning to give the Cardinals a 5-2 lead.

DIAMONDBACKS MOVES

The Diamondbacks did some re-arranging of their bullpen before Monday’s game. Pitchers Dominic Leone and Keith Hessler were recalled from the minors, Leone from Triple-A Reno and Hessler from Double-A Mobile. Relievers Evan Marshall and Tyler Wagner were optioned to Reno.

OOPS

St. Louis CF Randal Grichuk completely misjudged Tomas’ line drive to center field in the second inning, and it ended up costing the Cardinals a run. Grichuck came in for the ball but it sailed over his head and bounced off the wall without him getting a glove on it to slow it down. Tomas scored later in the inning.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Cardinals: Matt Holliday grounded out to third for the second out of the third inning, then Hazelbacker took over in left field in the bottom of the inning. Holliday is listed as day to day. “It was tight when he was heading down to first base and we had to get him out,” Matheny said. … Carpenter fell trying to field a bouncing ball from Arizona Jean Segura in the first inning. A trainer came out to check on him but Carpenter stayed in the game.

Diamondbacks: Pitcher Josh Collmenter, on the 15-day disabled list since April 2 with right shoulder inflammation, threw an inning Monday in an extended spring training game and is scheduled to pitch next on Thursday.

UP NEXT

Cardinals: RHP Carlos Martinez (3-0) looks to stay undefeated when he faces the Diamondbacks Tuesday night. It’ll be his 40th career start. The Cardinals have won every game in which he has appeared against Arizona (5-0).

Diamondbacks: Former Cardinal Shelby Miller (0-1) faces his former team on Tuesday. Miller is 1-1 with a 0.59 ERA against the Cardinals in his career. He went 26-18 in 63 starts for St. Louis from 2012-14.

— Associated Press —

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Jedd Gyorko didn’t mind being booed when he returned to San Diego with the St. Louis Cardinals.

After all, what better revenge than going 6 for 11 with two homers, a triple, four RBI and three runs scored in the three-game series? All that and he didn’t even start the opener Friday night.

Gyorko homered, tripled and singled, and rookie Aledmys Diaz had a homer among his three hits as the Cardinals rallied to beat the Padres 8-5 on Sunday to take two of three.

“I heard it, but it is what it is,” Gyorko said about the booing. “People are going to do whatever they want, so if that’s what makes them happy, they can keep booing.”

Gyorko was traded to the Cardinals in December for Jon Jay. A second-round pick of the Padres in 2010, he spent his first three big league seasons with San Diego, receiving a $35 million contract extension early in his second big league season.

“I think especially when he got the reception that he got, it’s always nice to stick it to the team you were with before,” manager Mike Matheny said. “It’s pretty common in this game. You give a guy a chance to go back and play against a team that he was with and seems like it’s usually a pretty good opportunity for them to do something special, and Jedd had a real nice couple days for us.”

Added Gyorko: “I hope when I go back to St. Louis they boo me there, too, because it worked out pretty well.”

Gyorko had two chances to complete the cycle but flied out to left and grounded out to third in his final at-bats. Randal Grichuk had three hits and three RBI for St. Louis.

“I think that was my second career triple, so I haven’t been very close ever, so I think I wasted my best chance to get one,” Gyorko said.

“He hit the ball well against us,” San Diego manager Andy Green said. “We weren’t able to execute against him, probably more than anybody else. We ended up having to come to him a number of times by missing early in the count. He found himself in hitter’s counts and he did damage against us. Tip your cap.”

San Diego’s bullpen imploded for the second straight game. Kevin Quackenbush allowed consecutive homers to Gyorko and Diaz in the sixth to tie it, and Brandon Maurer (0-1) gave up three runs in the eighth, including Matt Carpenter’s go-ahead, RBI triple with one out and Grichuk’s two-run double with two outs.

In the last two games, San Diego’s bullpen allowed 15 runs, all earned, on 18 hits in eight innings, with four homers, four walks and five strikeouts. The Cardinals won 11-2 Saturday night, scoring 10 runs in the final three innings.

Kevin Siegrest (3-0) pitched the seventh for the win. Trevor Rosenthal pitched the ninth for his fifth save in as many chances.

The Padres gave Colin Rea a 5-3 lead after five, but Quackenbush allowed back-to-back homers to the only batters he faced, Gyorko and Diaz, which tied it in the sixth.

Gyorko homered to right, his third, on a 2-0 pitch. Diaz homered to left, his third, on a 0-1 pitch.

Diaz had his first five-hit game Saturday night while Gyorko had a three-run homer.

Cardinals starter Mike Leake, who went to high school in northern San Diego County, helped his own cause and gave the Cardinals a 3-2 lead when he singled in Gyorko with one out in the fourth. Gyorko was aboard on a leadoff triple to right.

San Diego tied it in the bottom of the inning on Christian Bethancourt’s solo homer into the bullpen in left-center with two outs. It was his first.

Bethancourt, who had a rough first inning by allowing a passed ball and a stolen base, also hit a sacrifice fly in the second.

Leake allowed five runs, three earned, on seven hits in five innings. He struck out four and walked two.

“Great offense today,” Leake said. “We came in and did what we needed to do this series, and took two out of three, so it’s a good series.”

The Cardinals got consecutive RBI singles by Grichuk and Yadier Molina with two outs in the first.

Rea allowed five runs, four earned, on seven hits in five innings, with three strikeouts and two walks.

NEXT UP

Cardinals: St. Louis continues its seven-game trip through the NL West when it opens a four-game series Monday night at Arizona. Scheduled starter LHP Jaime Garcia (1-1, 2.70) has made five career starts against Arizona and is 5-0 with a 2.51 ERA.

Padres: LHP Drew Pomeranz (2-1, 2.04) is scheduled to start Monday night in the opener of a three-game series at San Francisco, which will counter with LHP Madison Bumgarner (1-2, 3.91).

— Associated Press —-