He has 12 strikeouts and two walks in his first two starts.
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“It was fun to come up in that situation and come through”, Drury said.
Jean Segura homered in the bottom half to tie it. Los Angeles hosts the Giants for a three-game series that starts Monday.
“We’ve been waiting for this series for a while”. “It gives the best chance against those guys and I think they feel the same about playing against us”.
“It’s going to be nice to get in front of 40,000 people who are cheering for you”.
“I wasn’t able to get into my groove and I put a lot of pressure on the position players to pick up the slack”, Maeda said through an interpreter. He faces Arizona, against which he faced and won on September 5 at Dodger Stadium. “The one thing we did was run his pitch count pretty high to get him out of the game, but their bullpen is very good, especially when you get to the last guy”.
Goldschmidt started the final rally by sending a hit up the middle, then turned it into a hustle double. “That’s part of baseball”, Diamondbacks manager Chip Hale said of Goldschmidt. He was charged with four runs on four hits in 5 1/3 innings on Thursday. “It’s just kind of the heat of the moment”.
Arizona might have scored more were it not for the strong arm of Andrew Toles, who threw home in the fourth inning for his first major league outfield assist. “He still found a way, as he seemingly always does, to give us a chance to win”. Arizona’s loss halted a four-game winning streak, but the hot-hitting Jean Segura continued his stellar play by going 2-for-5. His two-run homer in the fourth was a bomb that hit off the second floor in left field.
At Chase Field, Maeda (15-9) held the home team to one run on three hits and three walks and struck out six, while five relievers combined to allow only two hits in the next three innings. Ray allowed two baserunners in the top of the fifth inning after the flawless game bid was done, and then the Dodgers started off the top of the sixth inning with back-to-back doubles. His 2016 salary has rose from a base of $3 million to $9.65 million with bonuses and he’s set to make another $1.5 million if he makes his next start.
In his last start, against San Francisco, the normally reserve Greinke was clearly frustrated, arching his back and throwing his head back after several pitches. Gonzalez cleared the bases on a double and tied the game off Escobar, making it a six-run sixth inning and a tie game.
Kendrick and Justin Turner started the inning with consecutive doubles for a run. He limited the damage to one run when a check-swing grounder by Haniger drove home Castillo, who had singled. Josh Fields replaced Howell and walked Welington Castillo.
Chase Utley doubled twice for the Dodgers.
“Dominating stuff”, Hale said.
“That’s a really long answer and I don’t want to spend five minutes talking about it”, he said, ending the interview with that.
“He had good fastball command. The quality of the at-bats up and down the lineup continues to get better”.
Drury opened the inning with a walk, then Mitch Haniger looped a short fly along the right-field line.
Brock Stewart, pressed into spot start duty on nine days rest after he wasn’t needed earlier in the week in long relief, had a solid outing. They won thanks to a pair of unearned runs.
The Dodgers escaped with a win despite issuing seven walks.
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Louis Coleman reacts in the dugout after giving up a two-run home run to …
Patrick Corbin earned his first save by pitching three scoreless innings. “To see now where they’re at in the second half.”.
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The Diamondbacks are parting with senior vice president of baseball operations De Jon Watson, and chief baseball officer Tony La Russa said he and general manager Dave Stewart may also be fired after the season. C Oscar Hernandez, the team’s No. 3 catcher, may catch an upcoming game, Hale said.
