PHOENIX -- David Peralta was adamant postgame -- don’t count he and his teammates out just yet.

While the D-backs dropped their sixth straight game Saturday night, falling to the Giants, 7-4, at Chase Field, Peralta believes good times are just around the corner.

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“We need to be better,” Peralta said. “For sure we need to be better because this is not us. This is not us, we’re a way better team than we are showing right now. Tomorrow is another day.”

And it’s one on which the D-backs will try to avoid a three-game sweep at the hands of the last-place Giants.

“We’re grinding,” Peralta said. “I don’t even know what to say. Things happen. This happens to every team. What I can tell you guys is that we come in every day and prepare the best we can, we work hard every day. It’s just not going our way. It’s not the end of the world, but we need to do something to make things happen. So, we’re just going to turn the page and we’ll start tomorrow and hopefully we’ll get a win. We’ve got a good vibe here, we’ve got a positive mentality, we’re doing everything the best we can to go out there and perform and execute and it’s just not going our way.”

The night started off well for the D-backs as they jumped on San Francisco’s Tyler Beede for three runs in the first inning, all of which came with two outs and one that came on a double steal.

The Giants, though, scored a pair of runs in the second to pull to within 3-2 and in the third, they took the lead with four straight two-out hits, including a two-run double by Alex Dickerson and an RBI single by Brandon Crawford to go up 5-3.

Five of the runs came off Zack Godley as the D-backs continue to struggle to find a replacement in the rotation for the injured Jon Duplantier.

“I don’t know what we’re going to do,” D-backs manager Torey Lovullo said. “We’re going to sit down and we’re going to continue to talk about it, see what our best option is five days from now. it’s a good question. It’s a very, very good question. We want guys to step up, guys to take this opportunity that’s before them … We want guys to take advantage of those opportunities with the tools they have. We’re in a tough spot. We’re definitely in a tough spot. I know there’s a group of guys in there that believe in one another, that will keep fighting together until this thing gets going on the other side.”

Whether Godley gets another start or not remains to be seen, but the right-hander felt his 1-2-3 fourth, which was his final inning, was his best. It was important to him after the conversation he had with Lovullo in the dugout just before it.

“I kind of told Torey beforehand, like, ‘Hey, let me get a chance to go through this and show that I can do this,’” Godley said. “I did my best to do that in the fourth inning. I tried to throw the [Pablo] Sandoval pitch in the grass and it ended up being in front of the plate and he managed to get bat on it. It’s just one of those things where I have to reassess and try to figure out what’s the best step for me to take now and see where they want me to be.”