Leadoff man Corbin Carroll drives the ball into the gap and sprints around the bases. Slugger Christian Walker hits a home run into the left field seats. Second baseman Ketel Marte hit a big hit, starting a double play that broke up the rally. An unknown pitcher shut down their powerful attack.
If this sounded familiar to the Dodgers and the crowd of 46,593 that packed Chavez Canyon on Wednesday night, it was because it was all too familiar, as the Arizona Diamondbacks cruised to a 6-0 victory to take two of three games in the series, reminiscent of their three-game sweep of the Dodgers in last year’s National League Division Series.
Carroll hit a two-run triple in the fifth inning to send Dodgers ace Tyler Glasnow to his second straight loss, Walker hurt the Dodgers as usual with a solo homer in the sixth and a double in the eighth, and Marte started a wacky, timely double play to help pull the Diamondbacks out of a two-on, no-out slump in the sixth.
In Game 3 of the Division Series, bulk reliever Ryne Nelson reprized Brandon Puffert’s role, and the 26-year-old right-hander started seven games with a record of 2 wins, 3 losses, and a 7.06 ERA. However, the game against the Dodgers ended in a win. He allowed five hits, five strikeouts, and three walks in five innings.
The Dodgers went hitless for eight at bats with runners in scoring position in the final stages of 13 games in 13 days, losing to Arizona in their first regular-season home series since April 13-15, 2018. Total 13 series. It was Arizona’s first shutout win at Dodger Stadium since September 4, 2017.
Glasnow pitched four scoreless innings, allowing just two singles, striking out six, walking no batters and inducing 14 strikeouts, but the Diamondbacks broke the scoreless tie with three runs in the fifth inning.
Gabriel Moreno walked with one out to spark the comeback, and No. 9 hitter Kevin Newman singled to center field, advancing Moreno to third base, and Newman advanced to second on a throw.
Carroll, the 2023 NL Rookie of the Year who is off to a great start in 2024 — he entered Wednesday batting .191 with two home runs and 14 RBI — smashed a hanging one-two curveball from Glasnow into right-center field, closing the field gap for a two-run triple for a 2-0 lead, then scored on a wild pitch to make it 3-0.
In the top of the fourth inning, the Dodgers’ Teoscar Hernandez was walked with one out, and Gavin Lux hit a double over the right field wall, putting runners on second and third with one out.
However, Nelson, who replaced opening pitcher Brandon Hughes in the first inning, struck out Andy Page on three pitches and grounded Jason Heyward to first base to end the inning.
The Dodgers had a runner on second and no outs in the fifth inning, then Shohei Ohtani hit a mile-high fly ball to center field, Freddie Freeman struck out on a 96 mph fastball from Nelson, and Will Smith hit a ball into the wall but couldn’t score. Right.
The Diamondbacks extended their lead to 4-0 in the top of the sixth inning when Walker hit a 417-foot solo homer to left-center off Dodgers reliever Elicer Hernandez, giving the Arizona first baseman his 22nd home run in 87 games with the Dodgers. Recorded. 14 of them come to Chavez Valley.
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In the bottom of the sixth inning, with no outs again for the Dodgers, Teoscar Hernandez singled to right and Lux singled to left, putting a runner on second.
Paige then hit a fly ball to center field that Marte quickly dropped near second base, Marte caught the ball and stepped on second base for a force out to start the rundown, and Hernandez was tagged out on a double play between second and third base, and Heyward hit a fly ball down the warning track in left field to end the inning.
Arizona added two more runs in the eighth inning off reliever Ryan Yarbrough to extend its lead to 6-0. Marte got on base with a home run that hit the left-field foul pole, and Walker doubled to left field and later scored on a passed ball.
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Left-hander James Paxton and right-hander Walker Buehler will start the first two games of a three-game series beginning Friday night in Cincinnati, while Yoshinobu Yamamoto will start the series finale on Sunday. It will be Yamamoto’s fourth time this season to pitch on five days’ rest. … Closer Evan Phillips, who has been sidelined since May 5 with mild right hamstring strain, took batting practice with Class A Rancho Cucamonga on Thursday and is scheduled to begin his rehabilitation with the team on Sunday.
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This story originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.
