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The Dodgers suffered a deflating 9-3 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks at Dodger Stadium on Friday to start their remaining sequence before the All-Star break.
But if there was a silver lining to the Dodgers’ tough efficiency, it was that celebrity Shohei Ohtani appeared high quality at designated hitter after being scratched from his scheduled start because of irritation in his left knee.
Ohtani, who won’t take part in next week’s All-Star Game in Philadelphia, hit a leadoff home run off Diamondbacks starter Eduardo Rodriguez.
“He does a really good job of taking care of himself,” Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts said of Ohtani. “Obviously, we’ve curtailed the running, and so he’s doing everything he can to help us on the offensive side. And again, it wasn’t great tonight on the run prevention, but it was the right thing for all of us, and so I think we feel good about that going forward.
“But yeah, it’s really impressive what he continues to do offensively.”
The Diamondbacks took benefit of the Dodgers’ bullpen sport — and three defensive errors.
Right-hander Kyle Hurt opened and surrendered two runs on three hits through 1⅔ innings.
Arizona’s Ketel Marte and Geraldo Perdomo opened the sport with base hits. Corbin Carroll grounded into a forceout at second, shifting Marte to third, before Gabriel Moreno singled on a liner to proper that scored Marte. Carroll then scored on an errant throw to third from Kyle Tucker that went into the Dodgers’ dugout.
After Ohtani hit his twenty first homer of the season, Andy Pages hit a tying 419-foot blast to left-center for his seventeenth homer.
But that was all the Dodgers (61-34) would rating against Rodriguez, who gave up seven hits and struck out 5 over six innings to improve to 8-3.
“He’s had a heck of a year,” Roberts said of Rodriguez. “I think he’s an All-Star. Last couple years it’s been a grind for him, health, but man, when this guy’s healthy, the ball’s moving all over the place; he’s a big-league pitcher, he misses barrels. And yeah, we caught a couple barrels early, hit a couple homers, but he settled in nicely. And then once he got a lead, he was just really putting it to us.”
Dalton Rushing walks back to the dugout after grounding out to end the sport in the Dodgers’ 9-3 loss to Arizona on Friday.
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Arizona’s bullpen then held the Dodgers to just two hits — both coming in the ninth inning off Drey Jameson.
Will Klein (3-4) took the loss after surrendering one run through 1⅔ innings.
“I just wanted to see how he was because we’ve pushed him a little bit,” Roberts said about pulling Klein. “And I just wanted to make sure, in talking to him man to man, just how he felt going back out there for another inning because we pushed him a little bit. He’s done a nice job.”
After Brock Stewart gave up a two-run home run to Tim Tawa in the fourth, Arizona (47-47) tacked on two more runs in the fifth after the Dodgers’ second error.
Stewart walked Perdomo to start the inning. Then, Carroll grounded into a fielder’s alternative in entrance of the plate and reached first safely, with an errant throw by Rushing permitting Perdomo to attain third. Moreno grounded out to third to drive in Perdomo. A balk by Edgardo Henriquez adopted by a wild pitch allowed Carroll to rating.
“It has been sloppy two of the last three games,” Roberts said of the errors. “Don’t know the reason for it. Obviously, it never feels good to not convert outs. So yeah, I think that it’s one of those things that we got to get better at.”
Arizona prolonged its lead in the sixth after Tawa hit an RBI single to left and Perdomo drove in a run on a groundout to first. Tawa ended his three-hit, four-RBI efficiency with a run-scoring single in the eighth.
Reliever Alex Vesia threw a scoreless ninth inning for his fifth consecutive scoreless outing to cap a evening the Dodgers most likely would love to overlook.
“It’s not really a wild card; it’s a bullpen game,” Hurt said. “We’re all going to go out there and do our part; we got a job. Tonight, you know, there was a couple walks, some hits. It just wasn’t a good day for us. … We’ll be better.”
Roberts said the Dodgers would possibly deliver up another arm to end the sequence.
“We’re going to have that conversation,” he said.
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