Tim Tawa homered and matched his career high of four RBIs to help the Arizona Diamondbacks roll to a 9-3 victory over the host Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night.
Tawa had three hits and Gabriel Moreno had two hits and two RBIs as Arizona won its second straight game. Eduardo Rodriguez (8-3) pitched seven strong innings as the Diamondbacks improved to 3-5 against the Dodgers this season.
Shohei Ohtani and Andy Pages homered for Los Angeles, which lost for the fifth time in its past 17 games. Pages had three hits.
The Dodgers went with a bullpen game after Ohtani (left knee) was scratched from his pitching start earlier Friday. He also pulled out of Tuesday’s All-Star Game and will undergo treatments next week.
Brock Stewart, the third of seven pitchers, served up a tiebreaking two-run homer in the fourth to Tawa. That made a loser of Will Klein (3-4), who walked Nolan Arenado two batters earlier.
Rodriguez, a first-time All-Star, gave up two runs and seven hits over six innings. He struck out five and walked one.
Arizona started the game with singles by Ketel Marte and Geraldo Perdomo before Corbin Carroll hit into a fielder’s choice. Moreno followed with a single to right and Kyle Tucker’s throw to third got away, allowing Carroll to score and make it 2-0.
The Dodgers played Home Run Derby in the bottom of the first as Ohtani and Pages led off the inning with back-to-back homers to left-center. The leadoff blast was Ohtani’s 32nd of his career and 26th with the Dodgers. He trails teammate Mookie Betts (32) and former star Davey Lopes (28) on the franchise’s all-time list.
Arenado drew the one-one walk off Klein in the fourth and Tawa came up with two outs and hit a 429-foot blast to left-center off Stewart to give the Diamondbacks a 4-2 lead.
Arizona added two runs in the fifth without having a hit. Dodgers catcher Dalton Rushing contributed a throwing error prior to Moreno’s RBI groundout and pitcher Edgardo Henriquez committed a balk and wild pitch as Carroll went from second to third to home to make it 6-2.
In the sixth, Tommy Edman made a throwing error on a bunt to help set up Tawa with an RBI single. Perdomo’s groundout plated another.
Jorge Barrosa singled to start the eighth and moved to second on a wild pitch by Evan Phillips before scoring on Tawa’s run-scoring single.
Miguel Rojas hit a two-out RBI double in the ninth for the Dodgers, whose three errors led to three unearned runs.
–Field Level Media
