The ball ricocheted up and hit Grandal’s face mask, then dropped and got wedged between his body and chest protector. Jean Segura leads Arizona with 129 hits, Paul Goldschmidt has 68 RBI and Jake Lamb has 21 home runs. “We cost him a bunch of pitches with errors”.
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Three batters after Corey Seager doubled against Zac Curtis (0-1), Grandal hit a 2-1 pitch from Randall Delgado into center field, scoring Seager from third with the tiebreaking run. He finished throwing 5.1 innings, gave up eight hits and six runs, with three of those unearned.
The Dodgers have used 12 starters already this season.
Ross Stripling was called on to finish the inning, which he did, and he allowed a run before getting three outs.
Puig, making his first start since July 20, reached base four times and scored twice.
On Sunday, however, they overcame that rough start with an offense that led the National League in runs per game during July (5.2). Tightness in his right hamstring limited Puig to three pinch-hitting appearances over the previous eight games.
Diamondbacks: Zack Greinke was on a 60-pitch limit Friday night in a rehab start in an Arizona rookie league game in Mesa, Arizona. If he pitches and recovers without incident, Greinke would be on an 80-pitch limit in his next start.
NOTES: The Diamondbacks traded veteran RHP Tyler Clippard to the New York Yankees in exchange for RHP Vicente Campos. INF Austin Barnes was optioned back to Triple-A Oklahoma City to clear a roster spot.
“You never like losing, but offensively the scorecard doesn’t really show the quality of our at-bats”, said Dodgers manager Dave Roberts. OF Pederson, 2B Chase Utley and 1B Adrian Gonzalez were not in the Dodgers’ starting lineup.
Diamondbacks: Braden Shipley (0-1, 10.13 ERA) makes his second career start.
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Dodgers: RHP Brandon McCarthy (2-1,2.39) makes his sixth start since returning from more than a year recovering from Tommy John surgery at Colorado on Tuesday night.
