David Peralta drew a leadoff walk in the fourth inning, then advanced to second base as Kendrick booted a grounder hit to his left, allowing Yasmany Tomas to reach. The two-out error didn’t cost the Dodgers as Turner made a nice play on Corbin’s bunt single attempt.
Seager drew a two-out walk in the bottom of the fifth, but was stranded as Ellis grounded out to shortstop. Seagura reached on a one-out infield single in the fifth. He was later thrown out attempting to steal second base, ending the inning with Paul Goldschmidt at the plate.
Puig hit a hustle double with two outs in the bottom of the fifth, needing a nifty head-first slide and quick hand movement to avoid Segura’s tag. The Diamondbacks lost their challenge on the safe call at second base. Corbin kept the Dodgers lead at 1-0 by getting Gonzalez to fly out on the next pitch.
Seager helped his pitcher out by making a nice stop and throw on a grounder up the middle to keep Goldschmidt hitless on the day. Maeda then got David Peralta swinging for the second out. Welington Castillo kept the inning alive by dropping a single into left field.
Jake Lamb followed with a double to the right field corner, though the inning ended as Puig threw a dart to the cutoff man (Turner — as part of a shift), who threw home with plenty of time for Ellis to apply the tag.
With six more shutout innings, Maeda moved into fourth on the Dodgers’ all-time list of most scoreless innings to start a career with 12. Pedro Baez entered in the seventh and gave up a two-out solo home run to Nick Ahmed that tied the game at 1-1.
Tyler Clippard came on in relief of Corbin in the bottom half of the inning. Ellis lined a leadoff single to right, only to be erased on pinch-hitter Charlie Culberson’s sacrifice bunt attempt that resulted in a 3-6-4 double play. Clippard struck out Hernandez to end the inning.
Chris Hatcher gave up a solo home run to Goldschmidt with one out in the eighth on a 3-0 pitch. Castillo hit a two-out double, Hatcher intentionally walked Lamb, then walked Tomas to load the bases. Hatcher was replaced by Louis Coleman, who struck out pinch-hitter Rickie Weeks Jr. to end the inning.
After Puig was hit by a pitch in the bottom of the eighth, Gonzalez hit a single to put the tying and go-ahead runners on base with no outs. Nothing came of it, as Daniel Hudson proceeded to retire Turner, Kendrick and pinch-hitter Chase Utley.
The Diamondbacks added to their lead in the ninth behind a Brito RBI triple and Goldschmidt RBI groundout. Seager led off the bottom of the inning with a double, and scored two ground outs later to cut the Dodgers’ deficit to 4-2.
That’s as close as they got, suffering a fourth loss in the last five games.
