D-backs vs. Dodgers Game Highlights (7/10/26) | MLB Highlights | Arizona Diamondbacks

It's a bullpen game with Shohei Otani not starting. Kyle Hurt is starting things off. His first outing in five days did not have an appearance in the Colorado Rockies series. In his 32nd game, he enters with an ERA just above 4 1⁄2. Hits it on the ground. Pass to diving. Rojas into right center field for a base hit. The D-backs have the leadoff man aboard here in the first. He has great coverage away, and he just drills this ball right up the middle. Rojas tried, but couldn't get to it. Here's Geraldo Perdomo with a general bat left-handed in this scoreless game. Marte goes again, and Perdomo swings again and drops that into center. Could tell he'll stop at second. Had a good start, a couple of base hits against Kyle Hurt. Boy, it would be a tremendous boost for ERA to get a run or two across here in the first as Corbin Carroll steps in. Chops it to Freeman. Three, six, and with Carroll's speed, they're not going to be able to turn two. Gabby in the cleanup spot. Marte now with third. Corbin at first, one away. He had seven hits in the four games against the Padres this week. Now the 0-2. Gabby Lane is wide open, and he slaps it into right field. Aggressive turn here. Corbin will challenge Tucker, and gets away. It's behind Edmond, and Corbin will jog on in. Moreno's at second, and it's a two-run Diamondback first. The Diamondbacks have not struggled. This is six of seven games they've scored in the first inning. Corbin flying around second, no hesitation at all. Tucker's got a great arm, and he flat-out challenged him, and the throw got behind Edmond at third base. Two-spot on the board. First inning continues. The ground ball to Freeman will cover this bag. Two-man outrunner at third. Wildemar Vargas has a bounding ball. Chest-high hop to the second baseman, Rojas. He throws him out, and that does it for the Diamondbacks in the top of the first. They get two runs, three hits, one error, one left. C. Rod headed to the all-star game in Philadelphia next week. Look at these numbers. That 2-2-5 ERA is third lowest among all Major League starting pitchers. Getting two runs, he rarely gives up two runs at any start. Otani remains in the game as the D.H., and originally, he was going to pitch and lead off. Rodgers this afternoon scratched Otani from his start on the mound tonight, citing what's been some nagging soreness in his left knee, so he will have to skip the all-star game, they say. Otani hits one in the air to left, a long way. Guerrero back to the wall. It's gone! A lead-off home run for Otani, the 32nd career lead-off home run, and his 26th with the Dodgers, his eighth this year. Career home run number 301 and number 21 this season. Otani starts it off with a bang. That left knee not near 100%, but the bat certainly is. You know, Rodriguez in the month of May only gave up one home run. Rodgers trying to find a way to get to this guy who's been very tough against them this year. Pajes belts one high and deep, and way gone to start the bomb of the first. Andy Pajes with home run number 17. It is two to two. How's that for a response in the first? Aronado walked a lead-off to second. The three-one. Aronado takes inside ball four. Nolan Aronado's walked twice tonight. Second walk issued by Klein. Dave Roberts has seen enough. It's going to be mid-inning pitching changes tonight, as Brock Stewart getting loose of the L.A. bullpen, and he'll come in here. Tim Tawa's the first baseman tonight, batting ninth, and Tim hit a fly ball deep the other way that sent Kyle Tucker all the way back to the wall in right field. Tim Tawa gets it up in the air. This is headed to left field, and then you want some slug at first base. There's Tim Tawa. He hit it halfway up the seats and left center. That's his second this year, and it's four to two diamondbacks. He nearly hit one out the other way his first time up, and he got every bit of that one. What a big swing here at Dodger Stadium. Four strikeouts for Eduardo, and there's two outs in the fourth. Kyle Tucker swings and belts it to the gap, deep right center field, headed back to the wall. It is off the wall. Tucker around first, on his way to second, and he is in standing with a two-out double, 18th double of the season for Kyle Tucker. It's an Oscars 0-for-1. He flied to center in the second inning. A soft fly ball to right center, moving over Corbin Carroll. A couple steps will make the head high catch, and the inning is over. Rodriguez boasts a zero, pitching around the two-out double. We've played four. Good hitter's counts. Has to do some damage against this Dodger bullpen. That's the fourth walk drawn in the last four innings by a diamondback batter. So far, the first 3-1 has scored, and a chance now for Corbin Carroll to walk his last time up. Bernalmo holds it first. Corbin hits a little tapper out for rushing. He'll go to second, and it gets into center. They throw it away. Corbin's safe at first. Bernalmo's in at third. He had a throwing error on Kyle Tucker in the first that scored a diamondback run, and there's another gift from this Dodger defense. Talked about San Diego being the second-best defense. They made a couple errors. Well, the Dodgers are the best in two errors today. Both throws rate where the guy's sliding in, so this is not a good throw by rushing by any means, but Bernalmo coming in here, too, makes it doubly hard on Mookie Betts. More of an opportunity here to pad this 4-2 lead. Moreno drove in a run in the first with a single. Moreno bounces it high. The Edmund makes a terrific play. Bernalmo comes across, and it's 5-2. The RBI for Gabby. That's his second tonight. Another walk out to the mound for Dave Roberts. Running the bullpen game today, we might see the entire bullpen at this rate. Borriello for two. He's grounded out twice. And we got a balk. Everything going. The diamondback's way here tonight. The Dodgers are making tons of mistakes. A couple of throwing errors have led to two runs. Wow, a 390 feet for Corbin puts him at third base. He was going to come set and then stop. Claimed it was a pitch-com issue. I think everybody does that. Dodgers bring the infield in now. That kicks away from rushing. It's 6-2. Boy, I can't remember a game, Josh Coleman, when I've seen the L.A. Dodgers make so many mistakes. Just think about Corbin's entire at-bat. He gets on from a throwing error. Gets balked to third and wild pitched in. That rarely happens. 0-2 pitch to Páez. Little swing and a little fly ball shallow right center. It's going to drop in for a hit. Rojas around second. He's on his way to third. Andy Páez is three for three on a bloop single with two down. Freddy Freeman's hitting a little under 500 against Eduardo Rodríguez in his career. He's 10 for 22, 0 for two tonight. Runners off the corners, two down. Swing and a one-hopper to second. Nearly knocks down Vargas, but he gloves it, spins and throws to first, getting over. Eduardo Rodríguez pitches out of a jam, leaving runners at the corners. We played five. Roman's walked twice already and scored a run. He's ahead here three and one. Enriquez, who got two strikeouts, Aguriel and Vargas to win the fifth. Wearing a lead-off walk in the sixth. Right in the face here, Woltzman on deck. And that one is low at 99. Aronado's been up there three times, and he's walked three times. Patient at bats by Nolan Aronado. Here's Waldie, who was struck out twice, back up from Reno today. Shows bunt, pops it up, and that got him. I mean, this pitch just bores up and in on him. Max Esposito, the athletic trainer, having a look. Let's see. Oh, boy, the fingers. Of course, when pitchers would bat, all of our bunting practice, they wanted that hand behind the barrel. Especially as a pitcher, you don't want any part of your hand getting out there in front. It sort of looked like the fingertips were in front. And Ryan Woltzman's going to have to leave the game. Only his third at bat, recalled earlier today, from Triple-A Reno. That does not look too encouraging. It looks like Jorge is going to come out and finish off the at-bat and likely stay in the game in center field. Puts it in a bounce to the left-hand side. Gets the bunt down. It's a beauty. Edmonds on it, and he throws it away. Barrosa running into second and rolls up the line. Tucker's got it, and it's another throwing error by the L.A. Dodgers tonight. They have thrown it all over the field here. An off day yesterday, it's like they hadn't played baseball, and it might reset the bullpen, but another chance to score without getting a hit for the Diamondbacks. They've already had two throwing errors in the game. Diamondbacks in the fifth inning got two runs home without getting a base hit. It's second and third down, nobody out. Here's Tawa, who hit a long home run his last time up, and he smashes it by a minute third. Colorado will score. Barrosa's into third. Tim Tawa's third RBI tonight, and it's 7-2. He's getting his licks in on those fastballs on the inside part of the plate. And 101, no problem. There he has single walked and scored a run. He's one for two. Field in for the Dodgers. Freeman coming home. Huff going to step on the bag and concede the run. No chance to get Barrosa. He was off on contact. Another run comes across, and it's 8-2 Diamondbacks. Huffer's hitting .366 in his last dozen games. He doubled his last time up tonight, starting to heat up after a slow first half. Another 2-2. Right there. Oh, challenge. Gabby will take a shot here. This one's going to be close. By a seed. Good for the strike. Arizona has two remaining. The fifth for Erod, and there's two outs and a six. 3-0. Down low, ball four. That's the first walk of the night issued by Rodriguez. It's a strange time with one out here and a six. Yeah, I didn't see that one coming there. Hernandez pops it up into shallow right center, backing out Vargas, coming in. Carroll on the right fielder makes the grab. Six innings, a two-run ball in the books for Eduardo Rodriguez. The all-star has helped stake the D-back to an 8-2 lead. Tim Tawa, who's been the slugger tonight in the nine hole, is on deck. Barrosa sends a bullet to center, and Jorge's aboard to get it started. Tim Tawa's knocked in three runs. He had an RBI single his last time up in the sixth. That rolls away from rushing another free base for a Diamondback runner as Barrosa scampers into second. Hunter's trying to fill the stat book up with all kinds of the accessories, the wild pitches, your box, your airs, everything other than the hits and runs. Wild pitch charged to Phillips. An RBI chance for Tim. And he rolls it into right field. J.R. Howe's going to wave Barrosa. Tucker's got a big arm. Tim Tawa's knocked in four in Los Angeles. That's his third hit tonight. And that wild pitch creates the RBI opportunity. Tawa takes advantage. And, boy, we talk about king of the court. He is in. All Diamondbacks tonight. A sloppy game by L.A. The Diamondbacks have done a wonderful job of taking advantage of some Dodger mistakes. They lead a 9-2. Swung on and looked on the right. That's a base hit. Another bloop shot, and the Dodgers have it. Start somewhere. Hernandez hits a soft liner to right, racing in Carroll, and he makes a sliding backhanded catch for out number two. What a play by Corbett Carroll again. Great reaction off the bat. Comes in almost a knee slide. It just really robs him of a base hit. He makes one out away from victory. He's not going away quietly. It's in the corner. Lotus won't be able to cut it off. Edmund's going to come around and score. Dino Ebel waving him home. It rolls along the track, and it's 9-3. Now it's Dalton rushing. Broken bat. Vargas has got it at second. And the Diamondbacks have got a 9-3 win in the opener at Dodger Stadium. Tim Towe with a big night. Three hits, four RBIs, including a long home run. And it's another victory for the all-star Eduardo Rodriguez, who improves to 8-3. And once again, he gives up only two runs.