Dodgers end 7-game losing streak despite Edwin

PHOENIX — Dodgers reliever Jack Dreyer let free a shout, balling his fingers into fists as he launched the strain of the last a number of minutes — or, from a staff perspective, over a week.

The Dodgers had just pulled off a 2-1 win against the Diamondbacks in the tenth inning, and, mercifully, snapped a seven-game losing streak. It was their longest such streak since July 2025. They haven’t had a losing streak longer than seven video games since September 2017 (11).

“I think that was the most emotion I’ve ever showed,” said Dreyer, who picked up his first save of the season. “It was nice because I knew I wouldn’t go back out for the next inning. … The game was over. So kind of let the emotions take over for a little bit.”

Before this latest streak, the Dodgers had finished an admirable job of not piling up losses. They hadn’t misplaced more than 4 straight video games until this week. But the Dodgers had been swept in two straight sequence, against the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs heading into the weekend against Arizona (62-56).

The Dodgers’ National League West lead over the second-place Diamondbacks moved up to 8½ video games.

Many of the Dodgers’ current issues still flared. The offense is slumping, and the back end of the bullpen has been shaky. But at least the streak was finally over.

“Man, that was a tough one,” supervisor Dave Roberts said. “We’ll take it.”

The Dodgers’ offense has been all but silenced in two video games against Arizona. A day after Merrill Kelly saved the Dodgers hitless through his first 5 innings, Arizona starter Brandon Pfaadt gave up only a pair of infield hits to Andy Pages through seven innings.

“I think each individual, there’s a different component,” Roberts said. “But I think collectively, we just gotta come together. We’re just better than this. As we always say, it’s not a try league. We gotta get it done. We gotta be better, and again, to score one or two runs to win, it’s just a hard quality of life. I understand hitting is hard. I did it, but we’ve got a lot of talent in the room.”

Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto was almost as efficient, holding the Diamondbacks to three hits. But he wasn’t as environment friendly and exited with two outs in the sixth inning, his pitch rely up to 107.

The sport remained scoreless until Kyle Tucker, whose bat has been scorching this street journey, hit a solo home run to proper subject off Diamondbacks reliever Jonathan Loáisiga in the eighth.

Teoscar Hernández and Hunter Feduccia adopted with singles, but both had been left stranded when Shohei Ohtani and Pages struck out.

Dodgers reliever Kyle Hurt retired the first two batters in the eighth before giving up a single and back-to-back walks to load the bases. Tanner Scott changed him and received out of the jam by inducing Waldschmidt to fly out.

In the ninth, Díaz, who gave up a walk-off home run Friday, blew it again, but he at least managed to keep the rating tied.

Díaz gave up back-to-back triples to Geraldo Perdomo and Corbin Carroll to tie the rating. He retired three of the next 4 batters, with an intentional stroll in between, to ship the sport into further innings.

“You saw once they scored the run, man on third base, nobody out, you saw the intensity pick up, the stuff picked up,” Roberts said. “The fastball got better. The slider got better. Even talking to him after the game, that’s how we have to be from the first pitch. That was the first game I saw this year where he had some real intensity.”

Tucker served as the Dodgers’ computerized runner on second base to start the tenth inning, and with two outs, he superior to third base on a wild pitch, as Feduccia took first on a stroll.

That put runners on the corners for Ohtani. He hit a sharp groundball to the best of Diamondbacks first baseman Tim Tawa, who made a diving stop. But the ball rolled away from him as he went to flip to first, giving Ohtani time to attain first and Tucker time to rating the go-ahead run.

“I guess that was the game right there,” Tucker said. “So it was a great at-bat out of him and being able to get down the line was huge.”

Clinging to a slender lead, the Dodgers turned to Dreyer. He struck out Tawa. And then he received James McCann to hit a tender grounder up the center, but McCann beat second baseman Tommy Edman’s throw to first by a cut up second.

With runners on the corners, Waldschmidt hit a bouncing comebacker that Dreyer snagged and threw to second before Edman shortly threw to Freddie Freeman to end the sport.

“It helps when you have some of the best defensive players in the game behind you,” Dreyer said. “I knew that all I needed to do was get the ball to Tommy and he would take care of the rest. I don’t know if I had too much velo on the throw to him, but once it got to him, he made the play.

“That was fun to watch.”

Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani hits an RBI single in the tenth inning against the Diamondbacks on Saturday.

(Rick Scuteri / Associated Press)

Ohtani performs catch

Fans consolidated in the best subject stands as Ohtani warmed up by throwing a weighted plyo ball against the back wall of the customer’s bullpen and then returned to the outfield to play catch.

It was the first time Ohtani, who threw on flat ground from about 90 ft, has been noticed taking part in catch before a sport since July 22, when he threw a 31-pitch bullpen in Philadelphia. According to the staff, he has been protecting his arm transferring with plyo ball drills.

Ohtani declined to remark through a staff consultant.

“It’s sort of Shohei and the training staff driving it, more Shohei,” Roberts said of Ohtani’s throwing schedule. “So I don’t know if he’s going to come back out there [Sunday] and pick up a baseball, or if it’s going to be Monday, but I do think that him getting out there and playing catch is a step in the right direction.”