Arizona Diamondbacks vs Los Angeles Dodgers Match Player Stats On Sep 05, 2017

The Sports Xchange
Sep 6, 2017

LOS ANGELES -- The Arizona Diamondbacks keep on rolling, boosting their season-best winning streak to 12 games with a 3-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in 10 innings Tuesday night.

Brandon Drury's slow roller to third base in the 10th brought home two runs when Dodgers catcher Yasmani Grandal could not handle the throw from third baseman Justin Turner. Chris Hermann and A.J. Pollock scored when the throw hit off Grandal's arm and the ball rolled toward the Diamondbacks' dugout.

Hermann said after the game that Turner's throw glanced off his left shoulder.

Arizona not only tied the franchise's longest winning streak, previously set in 2003, but the club has not trailed in 98 innings, tied for third all-time with the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers. The only teams with longer streaks were the 2002 Oakland Athletics (102 innings) and the 1942 New York Yankees (101 innings).

The Diamondbacks started their game-winning rally against Dodgers reliever Pedro Baez (3-4) with consecutive walks to Chris Iannetta and Pollock. Hermann replaced Iannetta on the bases. A day after hitting four home runs in a game, J.D. Martinez grounded out to third before Drury delivered his fateful grounder in the same direction.

David Hernandez (3-0) got the win, and Fernando Rodney picked up his 35th save, each throwing a scoreless inning.

The victory means the Diamondbacks secured the season series against the Dodgers, the first time they have done so since going 10-9 against their rivals in 2013. Arizona is also 14-1 in its last 15 games.

It was a game of dueling no-hitters through three innings before the Diamondbacks took a lead in the fourth inning on an RBI double from Daniel Descalso. The drive was nearly a three-run home run over the short wall in left, but bounced off the top of the padding and back onto the field.

Without a hit into the fifth inning, the Dodgers ended Zack Greinke's potential no-hitter and shutout when Grandal crushed his 19th home run of the season. The Dodgers did not get their first hit until the sixth inning.

Andre Ethier and Adrian Gonzalez followed Grandal with a pair of singles, but Logan Forsythe hit into a ground-ball double play and Hyun-Jin Ryu struck out to end the threat.

Grandal's home run was the only run Greinke allowed in seven innings. The Dodgers had four hits off the right-hander while striking out six times. Greinke walked one.

Ryu gave up one run on three hits over six innings, but he did allow five walks while striking out seven. It was still a far better outing than last Wednesday at Arizona, when he gave up six runs on eight hits in just four innings, ending a run when he had allowed just two earned runs or fewer in eight of nine outings.

A day after crushing four home runs in a game, becoming just the 18th player in major league history to do so, Martinez flied out to left in the first inning, doubled to right field in the fourth inning, flied out to left in the fifth inning, struck out looking in the eighth and grounded out in the 10th.

NOTES: Dodgers C Yasmani Grandal has now hit 17 of his 19 home runs from the left side of the plate after the switch hitter went deep in the fifth inning. ... Dodgers LF Andre Ethier delivered a fifth-inning single to center field, his first hit in a regular-season game since Oct. 2, 2016. ... Diamondbacks 1B Paul Goldschmidt returned to Arizona to have an MRI on his sore right elbow. The test showed no structural damage, and he will rejoin the club in Los Angeles.