Dodgers Plagued By Pitching Struggles, Defensive Mistakes In Loss To Arizona

The Dodgers suffered a deflating 9-3 loss to nan Arizona Diamondbacks astatine Dodger Stadium connected Friday to commencement their last bid earlier nan All-Star break.

But if location was a metallic lining to nan Dodgers unsmooth performance, it was that superstar Shohei Ohtani looked good astatine designated hitter aft being scratched from his scheduled start because of irritation successful his near knee.

Ohtani, will not participate successful adjacent week’s All-Star Game successful Philadelphia, deed a leadoff location tally disconnected Diamondbacks starter Eduardo Rodriguez.

“I recovered retired yesterday morning,” Roberts said of Ohtani’s injury. “So if there’s a chance that we could benignant of beryllium proactive and get it drained and do immoderate we request to do to effort to negociate it, on pinch nan remainder for nan All-Star break, we were gonna do that.

“But evidently nan measurement he’s swinging nan bat hasn’t really affected performance,” Roberts added. “We person surely curtailed nan stealing bases. But he feels good, obviously, and he’s gonna beryllium DH’ing nan adjacent 3 games.”

The Diamondbacks took advantage of nan Dodgers’ bullpen crippled — and 3 protect errors.

Right-handed pitcher Kyle Hurt opened and surrendered 2 runs connected 3 hits done 1⅔ innings.

Arizona’s Ketel Marte and Geraldo Perdomo opened nan crippled pinch guidelines hits. Corbin Carroll grounded into a unit retired astatine second, moving Marte to third, earlier Gabriel Moreno singled connected a liner to correct that scored Marte. Carroll past scored connected an errant propulsion to 3rd from Kyle Tucker that went into nan Dodgers’ dugout.

After Ohtani deed his 21st homer of nan season, Andy Pages deed a tying 419-foot blast to left-center for his 17th homer.

But that was each nan Dodgers (61-34) would people against Rodriguez, who gave up 7 hits and struck retired 5 complete six innings to amended to 8-3.

Dalton Rushing walks backmost to nan dugout aft grounding retired to extremity nan crippled successful nan Dodgers’ 9-3 nonaccomplishment to Arizona connected Friday.

(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Arizona’s bullpen past held nan Dodgers to conscionable 2 hits — some coming successful nan ninth inning disconnected Drey Jameson.

Will Klein (3-4) took nan nonaccomplishment aft surrendering 1 tally done 1⅔ innings.

After Brock Stewart gave up a two-run location tally to Tim Tawa successful nan fourth, Arizona (47-47) tacked connected 2 much runs successful nan 5th aft nan Dodgers’ 2nd error.

Stewart walked Perdomo to commencement nan frame. Then, Carroll grounded into a fielder’s prime successful beforehand of nan sheet and reached first safely, pinch an errant propulsion by Rushing allowing Perdomo to scope third. Moreno grounded retired to 3rd to thrust successful Perdomo. A balk by Edgardo Henriquez followed by a chaotic transportation allowed Carroll to score.

Arizona extended its lead successful nan sixth aft Tawa deed an RBI azygous to near and Perdomo drove successful a tally connected a groundout to first. Tawa ended his 4 RBI capacity pinch a run-scoring azygous successful nan eighth.

Reliever Alex Vesia threw a scoreless ninth inning for his 5th consecutive scoreless outing to headdress a nighttime nan Dodgers astir apt would for illustration to forget.