Ketel Marte, Geraldo Perdomo lead D-backs to 6-3 win over Giants and a 3-game sweep

PHOENIX (AP) — Ketel Marte hit a two-run homer, Geraldo Perdomo drove in three runs and the Arizona Diamondbacks finished a three-game sweep of the San Francisco Giants with a 6-3 win on Wednesday.

Merrill Kelly (4-3) gave up three runs on eight hits over six innings, striking out four, for his third straight quality start. The veteran right-hander threw the first complete game of his career in his previous start against the Rockies last week.

Arizona has won four in a row and five of six. Paul Sewald worked the ninth for his 11th save.

Casey Schmitt homered in the first to give the Giants a 1-0 lead. It was his ninth of the season.

The D-backs pushed ahead 3-2 in the third when Marte went deep for the second straight game, lining a two-run shot over the right-center fence. The three-time All-Star hit a game-ending, three-run homer in the ninth on Tuesday.

Marte scored three runs and reached base four times, finishing a triple shy of the cycle. Rookies Jose Fernandez and Ryan Waldschmidt each added two singles.

Arizona went ahead 6-3 in the fifth after Ildemaro Vargas' RBI groundout and Perdomo's two-run double down the right-field line.

The Giants have lost six of eight to fall to 20-30. Tyler Mahle (1-6) gave up six runs on eight hits over five innings, striking out six.

Matt Chapman had two of the Giants' eight hits.

The D-backs send LHP Eduardo Rodriguez (4-1, 2.53 ERA) to the mound at home against the Rockies on Thursday.

The Giants are off Thursday. They return home to face the White Sox on Friday and will start RHP Davis Martin (6-1, 1.61) against Chicago RHP Trevor McDonald (2-0, 2.37).

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Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Merrill Kelly throws against the San Francisco Giants during the first inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, May 20, 2026, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

San Francisco Giants first baseman Rafael Devers tosses to first base to get Arizona Diamondbacks' Jorge Barrosa out during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, May 20, 2026, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Tyler Mahle pauses in the team dugout during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Wednesday, May 20, 2026, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Arizona Diamondbacks' Ryan Waldschmidt (15) and Ketel Marte celebrate their runs scored against the San Francisco Giants during the fifth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, May 20, 2026, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Arizona Diamondbacks' Geraldo Perdomo watches the flight of his two-run double against the San Francisco Giants during the fifth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, May 20, 2026, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk announced plans Wednesday for one of the biggest sales of stock to the public ever for his space company that is currently losing billions of dollars year.

A filing Wednesday shows Musk’s SpaceX lost $2.6 billion from operations last year on $18.7 billion in revenue, and the losses kept piling up at the start of this year, too.

The prospectus did not put a dollar figure on the amount Musk hopes to raise but various reports have put it at $75 billion or so. An offering of that size would easily surpass the current title holder, Saudi Aramco, the oil giant that went public seven years ago and raised $26 billion.

SpaceX, formally known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp., has said the money will help to finance projects to put men on the moon and maybe someday Mars in its quest to make humans an intergalactic species as they face existential threats that could wipe out civilization.

“We do not want humans to have the same fate as dinosaurs,” the filing stated.

The stock sale could also make Musk, a major owner who founded SpaceX in 2002, the world’s first trillionaire. Forbes currently puts Musk's net worth at $839 billion.

In addition to making reusable rockets to hurl astronauts into orbit, SpaceX has other businesses, some successful, some struggling — and with plenty of questions marks.

The document showed Starlink, the world’s largest satellite communications company, is a big cash generator for the company, generating $4.4 billion in operating income last year. The business uses 10,000 satellites in low orbit to provide internet service to 10 million people in 150 countries and territories.

Among the struggling business are two Musk units that were recently acquired by SpaceX — his social media platform X, formerly Twitter, and his artificial intelligence business, xAI. Those purchases were blasted by some SpaceX investors as bailouts because the businesses are big money losers.

The prospectus said its AI business lost $6.4 billion in operations last year.

The original SpaceX business, making rockets and staging launches, has been helped by massive government contracts, which themselves raises questions that could come back to haunt the company. Given Musk’s close relation to the Trump administration, government ethics lawyers and watchdogs have asked if he has gotten special treatment to win taxpayer money and whether that good luck will run out once President Donald Trump is out office.

SpaceX has won contracts worth $6 billion from NASA and the Defense Department and other government agencies in the past five years, according to USAspending.gov. The company notes in its filing that a fifth of its revenue last year was attributable to the federal government.

Musk was the biggest donor to Trump’s presidential campaign and is still a big backer despite their sometimes rocky relationship after his stewardship of the government cost-cutting effort called DOGE early last year.

The document also shows Musk will be able to exert big control over the business.

It says Musk and certain other shareholders will receive shares in a special class of stock that gives them 10 votes for each share they hold. Those shareholders will be able, among other things, to elect a majority of the company’s board of directors.

“This will limit or preclude your ability to influence corporate matters and the election of our directors,” SpaceX said in a warning to prospective investors.

SpaceX will be able to pitch the offering to investors -- in what’s known in Wall Street parlance as a “road show” -- 15 days after making its prospectus public. In this case, that works out to June 4.

FILE - Elon Musk attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

SpaceX's latest version of it's mega rocket Starship is prepared for a test flight from Starbase, Texas, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)