The Dodgers finally stopped the bleeding Saturday night, grinding out a 2-1 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks in 10 innings to end their seven-game skid.
It took a messy, tense finish to get there, and for much of the night the offense never looked fully awake. Brandon Pfaadt kept Los Angeles quiet early, getting a ground ball double play from Freddie Freeman after a one-out walk by Andy Pages in the first.
The Dodgers didn’t put much together until the fourth, when Pages singled for his second time on base, only to be doubled off after Freeman lined out to third with Pages running. Pfaadt then retired the next six hitters in order and cruised through six shutout innings on 74 pitches.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto matched him for most of the night, though he had to work through traffic. He escaped a first-inning jam with help from Lars Nootbaar, then kept Arizona off the board despite two-out baserunners and later a fifth-inning threat with two men on and one out. Yamamoto froze Geraldo Perdomo for the second out and then did the same to Corbin Carroll to get out of trouble.
Arizona finally forced Yamamoto’s night to end in the sixth, when Gabriel Moreno and Ketel Marte reached to start the inning. After Yamamoto recorded two more big outs, his outing was over at 107 pitches. Evan Phillips came on and shut that door by getting Tim Tawa to line out to right.
The right-hander finished with his first scoreless start since July 4, when he threw seven shutout innings against the San Diego Padres. He didn’t get a quality start, but he did strike out six, his most in a start since his complete game against the Yankees on July 19.
Pages kept giving the Dodgers life. He opened the seventh with his second infield single against Pfaadt, then stole second to put himself in scoring position for the first time. Los Angeles had two on, but Pfaadt still worked out of it by getting Mookie Betts to ground out and finish off seven scoreless innings.
Alex Vesia kept the game tied in the late innings, even after losing the strike zone briefly and walking two of his first three batters. He got Carroll to foul out, then outlasted Moreno in a 10-pitch battle and struck him out to leave the runners stranded.
Then came the swing that finally broke the deadlock. Kyle Tucker needed just two pitches to launch a solo home run off Jonathan Loásiga, putting the Dodgers in front by one. It was Tucker’s second homer over his five-game hitting streak, during which he has hit .389.
Los Angeles had a chance to add on after Teoscar Hernández and Hunter Feduccia delivered one-out singles, but Loásiga answered by striking out both Shohei Ohtani and Pages to keep it a one-run game.
Arizona kept hanging around. Kyle Hurt opened his outing with two quick outs on three pitches, then gave up a single to Nolan Arenado and walked Tawa and James McCann to load the bases. Tanner Scott came in and extinguished the threat, getting the rookie Ryan Waldschmidt to fly out to center.
The Dodgers could not tack on another run in the ninth, and that left Edwin Díaz to protect a slim lead. He didn’t.
Perdomo ripped a leadoff triple, Carroll followed with another triple, and Díaz was suddenly dealing with his second blown save in as many games. He got Moreno to line out to third and Marte to pop out to Mookie Betts, then intentionally walked Nootbaar to set up the force at the plate.
Díaz escaped the inning only after striking out Ildemaro Vargas to send the game to extras.
Los Angeles broke through in the 10th. After the first two batters were retired, Feduccia drew a two-out walk.
A wild pitch then skipped past McCann, moving Tucker to third. Ohtani followed with a grounder to first, but the ball slipped out of Tawa’s glove, letting Tucker score and Ohtani reach safely to put the Dodgers back ahead.
Jack Dreyer handled the final inning. He struck out Tawa to start the bottom of the 10th, then watched McCann reach on an infield single to put runners on the corners. But Ryan Waldschmidt bounced one right back to Dreyer, who started a 1-6-3 double play to end it.
With the win, the Dodgers moved back to 8 1/2 games ahead of Arizona in the NL West.
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