Freddie Freeman's grand slam capped a six-run third inning, Yoshinobu Yamamoto received off to a robust begin and the Los Angeles Dodgers prolonged their successful streak to 4 with a 6-Four victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday within the night.
Freeman's house run off Slade Cecconi (1-Four) was a part of an onslaught by which the primary six Dodgers received on the board and scored within the third.
Kiké Hernández and Will Smith additionally went deep within the inning as Los Angeles improved to 33-17. It’s the ninth time in franchise historical past that the Dodgers have at the least 33 wins after 50 video games.
Yamamoto (5-1) allowed two runs on seven hits and struck out eight in 6 1/Three innings. He threw a career-high 100 pitches, together with 69 strikeouts.
It was the 18th time in 27 video games for a Dodgers starter to go at the least six innings.
Daniel Hudson retired the crew within the ninth for his third save in 5 appearances.
“Offensively, we do sufficient to attain some runs to win,” supervisor Dave Roberts mentioned. “I feel there's room to proceed to get higher consistency within the lineup. However the launch was what was the impetus for this scorching streak.”
Arizona's Ketel Marte prolonged his hitting streak to 19 video games. It’s the longest streak within the majors this season and tied for fifth in franchise historical past.
Kyle Newman added three hits, his fifth multi-hit effort in his final 9 video games. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and Jake McCarthy had back-to-back homers within the eighth, however the Diamondbacks misplaced 4 of six.
“I used to be very happy with our strategy. We constructed innings and had core gamers. We simply couldn't get the large hit on the proper time,” Arizona supervisor Torey Lovullo mentioned.
Freeman's grand slam was the sixth of his profession and third for the reason that begin of final season. He’s one in every of seven gamers with threes previously two seasons.
The Dodgers are the one crew within the majors with two gamers with at the least three grand slams for the reason that begin of 2023. Max Muncy leads the crew with 4.
“I'm not on the lookout for the grand slam, I'm simply making an attempt to maintain the road shifting and get a base hit on the market. I lastly received it out,” Freeman mentioned.
It didn't take lengthy for the Dodgers to reply after the Diamondbacks opened the scoring on Joc Pederson's RBI hit to middle.
Hernández led off the inning with a drive to middle to tie it at 1-all. Miguel Rojas and Mookie Betts adopted with singles earlier than Shohei Ohtani drew a stroll to load the bases.
Freeman then took Cecconi's fastball, which was down within the strike zone, and put it over the wall in right-center for his fifth homer of the yr. It was additionally the third grand slam of the season for the Dodgers.
5 pitches later, Smith added a solo shot to left-center, marking the second time this season the Dodgers had back-to-back homers.
“We gave them pitches to hit, and so they hit them,” Cecconi mentioned. “Clearly they hit a whole lot of house runs and put a whole lot of barrels on baseballs and so they did that within the third.”
INSTRUCTOR'S ROOM
Diamondbacks: OF Alek Thomas (strained left hamstring) began working in pool and taking stay at-bats.
Dodgers: RHP Evan Phillips (proper hamstring pressure) is predicted to have a two- to three-game rehab project someday this week. … RHP Bobby Miller (proper shoulder irritation) will throw a three-inning mock sport Tuesday.
IT FOLLOWS
Arizona RHP Brandon Pfaadt (1-Three, Four.17 ERA) faces Los Angeles RHP Gavin Stone (Four-1, Three.27 ERA) within the center sport of the sequence on Tuesday.