The crowd of 41,820 reacted loudly again when Greinke walked off with his head down after getting yanked in Arizona’s 10-2 loss Monday night.
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So that’s not only five homers in the game, that’s four homers in the fifth inning alone.
LOS ANGELES The Dodgers drew criticism from many when they failed to re-sign pitcher Zack Greinke last winter. Greinke will be making his first trip to Los Angeles to see his former team, but he picked up the win versus the Dodgers on June 13 after permitting two runs in seven frames of a 3-2 triumph.Maeda will be pitching on six days’ rest for the third time in his last four starts on Monday.
“He’s so strategic with everything he throws”, Seager said. “It’s nearly fun to play with him. You know everything he does is with objective”. It’s kind of like a chess match. The Phillies’ run total was their highest since August 14. Diamondbacks RHP Zack Greinke is one of five pitchers to win at least eight successive starts at Dodger Stadium. “The ball was really tracking back toward the middle of the plate”.
Maeda (14-8) retired 18-straight batters after allowing a leadoff single to Jean Segura to start the game as he left in the seventh inning to a standing ovation by the grateful fans in attendance.
Padres 2, Red Sox 1: Edwin Jackson struck out 11 in seven scoreless innings to outpitch former Padres ace Drew Pomeranz, and Adam Rosales hit a two-run homer. Pederson started the rally with one out by sending Greinke’s 86 miles per hour slider over the center field fence for his 20th home run.Maeda and Chase Utley (2-for-5) followed with singles, and then Seager sent an 89 miles per hour changeup into the first row of the bleachers in left-center field for a three-run drive, his 24th homer this year.Turner, the next batter, went a few rows better. Scherzer (16-7) scattered seven hits and yielded two runs to win his fourth consecutive start.
That response provided a sharp contrast with the reception Greinke received.
Seager began the inning by lining a double off the base of the fence down the right field line.
“I feel I should be getting outs better than I am”, he said.
Grandal chased Greinke from the game with the fifth and final homer of the game. Turner earned his 25th homer by depositing Greinke’s 92 miles per hour fastball halfway up the bleachers in left-center field.
“More times than not you are going to get him out with that pitch”, Greinke said, “but he is one of those guys that can actually get to it, so I wasn’t completely shocked”. We knew that he was going to keep mixing it up and go to that pitch. “I don’t think you can just dismiss it”.
“Things were going bad and they were swinging good”, Greinke said. Turner earned his 25th homer by depositing Greinke’s 92 miles per hour fastball halfway up the bleachers in left-center field.
“Usually he is able to get out of those innings and stop the bleeding but he just wasn’t able to do it”, Arizona manager Chip Hale said. “I was surprised he couldn’t”.
In Cincinnati, Bartolo Colon pitched six innings of five-hit ball and Matt Reynolds homered for NY.
Arizona slugger Paul Goldschmidt chalked up Greinke’s poor outing to “one of those nights”.
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In the top of eighth, Owings’ double brought pinch hitter Phil Gosselin. Dodgers RHP Brandon McCarthy (right hip stiffness) made a rehab start for Class A Rancho Cucamonga on Monday, and he allowed 10 runs (five earned) on nine hits in four innings.
