PHOENIX -- It started as a Spring Training conversation between D-backs third baseman Josh Rojas and coordinator of Major League development and instruction Luis Urueta.

Urueta, who had previously served as manager Torey Lovullo's bench coach had dug into the numbers and wanted Rojas to know that, like most hitters, his batting average with two strikes was not good.

With Rojas being left-handed and teams employing an infield shift against him, Urueta told him, trying to bunt with two strikes might make sense.

Rojas told Urueta he thought he could get at least half of his bunts down in fair territory, which would almost surely go for a hit with the third baseman shifted over to the other side of the infield.

There was just one problem.

"The scariest part is when you bunt it foul and you look like an idiot," Rojas said after the D-backs' 6-2 victory over the Giants on Tuesday. "If you can get past that and you look at strictly the numbers and you get half of them in play, you're increasing your batting average from .100 or .200 to now .500 or .600."

Still, Rojas could not force himself to give his strategy a try because the fear was overwhelming.

Last week, before the D-backs left for a trip to Colorado, Rojas' dad once again brought up the idea of bunting with two strikes and the infield in an overshift.

Rojas came to the plate Tuesday night to lead off the eighth against Giants right-hander Dominic Leone. After taking the first pitch for a ball, Rojas looked feeble swinging at a fastball and then a slider.

That was when Rojas finally overcame his fear, because this felt different than the other times he had two strikes.

"Every [other] time I felt like I'm still in it, I can still get a hit," Rojas said. "This was the first one where the left side of the infield cleared and I really felt at a disadvantage. He threw me a fastball and beat me, threw me a slider [and beat me]. That's his two pitches and I missed both of them."

Rojas squared around at the 1-2 pitch but took the slider for a ball.

"He threw this back-foot slider and that pitch, for sure, I'm probably swinging over that one," Rojas said. "So that's when I was fully bought into doing it again."

Leone came back with a fastball and Rojas dropped a bunt down the third-base line that shortstop Brandon Crawford did not have a play on.

Rojas was confident enough in his bunting last year to try it with two strikes, but this spring after talking with Urueta, he worked relentlessly on his bunting. He would crank up the high-velocity pitching machine and work to make sure he could get the ball down in fair territory.

Then when he opened the season on the injured list with a strained oblique and was not allowed to swing a bat, he used that time to do more bunting practice.

After reaching base with his bunt Tuesday, Rojas eventually came around to score the tying run on a wild pitch, and the D-backs would get plenty of insurance later in the inning when Daulton Varsho turned on a 102 mph cut fastball from Camilo Doval and pulled it over the wall in right-center for a three-run homer.

That was an impressive feat, for sure -- it was the fastest pitch hit for a home run by a D-backs player since Statcast began tracking in 2015 -- but Varsho was even more taken by Rojas bunting for that hit.

"That was awesome," Varsho said. "I mean, that's really hard to do with two strikes. I've never been able to do that and I try to bunt a lot. But with two strikes? That's really tough to do."

Veteran shortstop Nick Ahmed, who had season-ending shoulder surgery last month, texted Rojas after the game to congratulate him on the two-strike bunt.

"I texted him back, 'That was so scary,'" Rojas said.

So should teams now beware of Rojas bunting again when he gets two strikes and the infield shifts?

"Yeah, 1-for-1," Rojas said. "We'll see how I feel the next time it presents itself."