Saturday night at Chase Field had the same tense shape as the night before: a low-scoring game, a lead in the ninth, and Edwin Díaz trying to close the door. It looked headed for the same ending, too.
Díaz couldn’t hold a 1-0 advantage after Geraldo Perdomo tripled and Corbin Carroll followed with another. Suddenly, Arizona had the winning run on third with nobody out, and the numbers were brutal for Los Angeles - FanGraphs had the Diamondbacks at 93.4 percent to win, while Baseball Reference had them at 93 percent.
It felt like the Dodgers were about to take their eighth straight loss.
Instead, Carroll never crossed the plate. Max Muncy lined out right at him, then came an infield popout that gave Los Angeles a pulse. After an intentional walk, Ildemaro Vargas struck out, and the Dodgers escaped what had looked like a certain defeat.
Los Angeles then scraped together a run of its own, and Jack Dreyer handled the free runner in the 10th to secure the Dodgers’ first win of August. The relief didn’t stop there: Díaz won’t pitch Sunday after appearing in each of the previous two games.
The oddest part of the night was the company Díaz joined. Giving up two triples is rare for any reliever, and it has happened only a dozen times by Dodgers pitchers since the club moved to Los Angeles. Before Díaz, the last one to do it was Ricky Trlicek on June 10, 1993, at San Diego.
Díaz also became the first Dodgers reliever to allow two triples in the same inning since Tim Crews on July 30, 1988, against the Houston Astros at Dodger Stadium. He was the first Dodgers reliever to surrender triples to consecutive batters since Howie Reed on August 6, 1964, at the Pittsburgh Pirates. Reed’s two triples both came to start the inning, and both runners scored.
As a team, the Dodgers have almost never survived a night like this. They’ve lost 65 of the 70 games in which a reliever has given up two triples.
The only Los Angeles Dodgers team to win such a game before Saturday did it on June 23, 1963, beating the Cardinals in St. Louis after Bob Miller allowed the two triples.
Díaz ended up with the win anyway. Baseball can do that sometimes, and on Saturday night it did. He became the first Dodgers reliever to allow two triples and still come away with a victory since George Jeffcoat for Brooklyn.
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