Ross Stripling pitched another gem and Justin Turner drove in two runs to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 3-1 win over the Angels on
Saturday night.
Stripling (7-2) is making a strong case to make the NL All-Star team with another terrific outing. He allowed just one run and three hits – all by Mike
Trout – in six innings. The right-hander struck out seven and walked
none
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After blowing a save opportunity on Friday night, Kenley Jansen pitched a perfect ninth to earn his 24th save.
The 28-year-old Stripling retired nine of the last 10 batters he faced for the Dodgers, who have won five of their last six games.
Trout went 3 for 3 against Stripling, including a solo home run to left-center field in the sixth inning for his 25th of the season and 50th RBI.
Trout, who finished 3 for 4 overall in his 11th three-hit game of the season, is
now 5 for 5 with two home runs in his career against Stripling.
The Angels’ Shohei Ohtani fouled a ball off what appeared to be his right foot in the ninth during his at-bat against Jansen. After a trainer, interpreter
and Mike Scioscia went to check on him, he stayed in the game and struck out –
but hobbled back to the dugout.
Turner hit a two-out single in the fifth inning off Taylor Cole (0-1) to give the Dodgers a 2-0 lead.
Yasiel Puig hit a two-out, solo home run to center field off Noe Ramirez in the ninth to put the Dodgers ahead 3-1.
Deck McGuire made his second start for the Angels. He allowed one hit and struck out six in three innings in his first career appearance against the
Dodgers.
In the fourth inning
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Kemp to ground out, but then walked Yasmani Grandal and was pulled in favor of
Cole.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Dodgers: RHP Yimi Garcia (right forearm inflammation) was placed on the disabled list. … LHP Rich Hill (sore neck) is expected to make his scheduled
start on Tuesday against San Diego. … RHP Walker Buehler (right rib micro
fracture) is scheduled to throw a five-inning simulated game Sunday. Dave
Roberts expects him to make a start next weekend against the Angels.
Angels: LHP Tyler Skaggs (right adductor strain) will throw a bullpen this weekend. … RHP Jim Johnson (lumbar strain) is scheduled to start a rehab
assignment at Class A Inland Empire on Sunday.
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Dodgers: LHP Alex Wood (5-5, 3.84 ERA) got the win in the Dodgers’ 17-1 victory over Pittsburgh last week. He allowed one run on six hits and walked
none in six innings.
Angels: LHP Andrew Heaney (4-6, 3.94 ERA) is grooving in his last six starts at home, where he is 4-1 with a 0.88 ERA. He’s 0-2 with a 6.10 ERA in two career
starts against the Dodgers.
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Paul Goldschmidt struck out his first two at-bats against Jack Flaherty, once on a slider. With two on in the fifth inning, Goldschmidt fell behind against
the St. Louis right-hander and laid off two sliders like the one he chased
earlier.
Another slider found too much of the plate and the reigning NL player of the month sent it over the wall in right.
Goldschmidt hit a three-run homer, Zack Greinke pitched effectively into the seventh inning and the Arizona Diamondbacks ended a four-game losing streak with
a 4-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night.
”Paul’s gifted,” Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said. ”You can’t make mistakes like that. He’s going to make you pay.”
Greinke (9-5) gave up two runs in the second inning to end his 13-inning scoreless streak but was otherwise sharp in winning his fourth straight game.
Yoshihisa Hirano needed one pitch to get a groundout with the bases loaded in
the seventh and extend his team record with a 26th straight scoreless
appearance.
Brad Boxberger worked around a walk in the ninth for his 20th save in 24 chances.
Goldschmidt had the big blow
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homer off Flaherty (3-4) in the fifth inning. The NL player of the month for
June, Goldschmidt is hitting .413 with 11 homers and 28 RBIs his past 26
games.
”It wasn’t the best slider I had thrown all night and you get a guy like that, who is red hot like that, he put a good swing on it,” Flaherty said.
Greinke entered Tuesday’s game with the 13-inning scoreless streak after tossing seven scoreless innings against Miami his last start. His streak lasted
one more inning; the Cardinals scored two runs in the second inning on Yairo
Munoz’s single and Kolten Wong’s sacrifice fly.
Greinke shook off the shaky second by mixing his pitches well, keeping the Cardinals off-balance with low-90s fastballs and looping curves that dipped to
63 mph. He was lifted with two outs in the seventh inning after giving up
consecutive hits, allowing two runs on seven hits and four strikeouts.
”I felt good, there was good defense behind me and we scored some runs,” Greinke said.
Flaherty allowed four runs on six hits in six innings in a loss to Cleveland his last start. He was sharp after giving up David Peralta’s run-scoring single
in the first
inning
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Flaherty ran into trouble in the fifth inning, giving up a double and hitting a batter before Goldschmidt lifted a three-run homer just over the wall in right
to put Arizona up 4-2.
Flaherty allowed four runs on four hits and struck out seven in six innings.
”He threw the ball well,” Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. ”(He) got into a tough situation with a good hitter, got to two strikes, the guy got the best
of that matchup, but overall his stuff was very good today.”
TRANLATOR BOOTED
Lovullo brought Hirano’s translator, Kelvin Kondo, with him to the mound after making a pitching change in the seventh inning, just to make sure the
Japanese right-hander was clear on what he wanted. The mound meeting turned a
bit chaotic when Lovullo left the mound and Kondo was still talking to
Hirano.
Under big-league rules
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on the mound, so when Lovullo started to walk away, plate umpire Bill Welke
started shouting and told Kondo to leave the field.
”I didn’t even know what was going on up there. It was crazy, chaotic,” Lovullo said. ”There’s a clear rule and it’s so new to us having the interpreter
and exchanging information. I just left the mound too soon, the dirt area too
soon and that was my responsibility to stay there until all the instructions
were made.”
TRAINER’S TABLE
Cardinals: SS Paul DeJong (broken left hand) went 0 for 4 for Triple-A Memphis on Monday night, his third rehab game with the Redbirds.
Diamondbacks: RHP Randall Delgado (strained left oblique) allowed a run on three hits in an inning for Triple-A Reno Monday night in a rehab appearance. …
OF Steven Souza Jr. went 1 for 4 with a solo homer for the Aces as he works back
from a strained right pectoral.
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Diamondbacks LHP Patrick Corbin has allowed a run in 13 innings his past two starts heading into Wednesday’s game against the Cardinals. St. Louis sends out
RHP Miles Mikolas, who lost his last start despite allowing a run in 6 2/3
innings against Atlanta.
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