After the Arizona Diamondbacks were swept by the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers, some onlookers might have wondered if this was going to be a long season.

But the D-backs might have changed those perspectives. They have gone out and won two straight over the Detroit Tigers, including a come-from-behind 7-5 win on Tuesday night at Chase Field in Downtown Phoenix,

Rookie Jose Fernandez made his presence felt in a big, big way. He smacked two home runs in the contest. Fernandez's eighth-inning homer came off of Tigers reliever Kenley Jansen, who has been around the majors for a long time. That highlighted a six-run eighth for the D-backs, too.

Fernandez was down in Triple-A when this season started, but was called up as Pavin Smith went on the Injured List. He was ready when Jansen threw a cut fastball. All a rookie did against a wily veteran is win that battle at the plate.

In the clubhouse after the game, James McCann talked with MLB.com about how he played a role in getting Fernandez clear on what he was going to see from Jansen.

"First off, Kenley's one of the greatest closers of all time, right?" McCann said. "Two, he has a very unique cutter. So really it was just Carlos (teammate Santana) and [me] trying to give him as much information as possible so that he wasn't surprised the first time he saw it, and I guess he wasn't. He did a pretty good job."

For Fernandez himself, he kept that eighth-inning at-bat in perspective. But there probably were some butterflies floating around when he looked out and saw Jansen on the mound. 

He took it all in stride.

"Stay calm, keep the emotions in check," Fernandez said after the game through his interpreter, Alex Arpiza, when talking about his approach to the eighth-inning at-bat. "I knew something like that could happen, and just looked for a pitch."

Fernandez was 3-for-4 on the night, picking up his first big-league hit on an infield hit. 

D-backs starting pitcher Brandon Pfaadt went six innings against Detroit, giving up all five Tigers runs (all earned) in a second-inning outburst. He walked one and struck out three, keeping Arizona in the game even after blowing up early.

Reliever Andrew Hoffman picked up the win while Paul Sewald came on in the ninth inning to earn his second save.

On Wednesday afternoon, the Tigers and D-backs wrap up the three-game series at Chase Field. First pitch is set for 2:40 p.m. ET (12:40 p.m. MT).

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