The Dodgers finished their sweep of the Dbacks with Sunday’s 5-3 win and are now 1 1/2 games above them in the division.
The Dodgers put up an early 2-0 lead and made a late-innings rally for the comeback win. Andre Ethier singled and Manny doubled and both scored on James Loney’s single. They were then held scoreless until the sixth, when Ethier scored the tying run on a sac fly by Loney. The Dodgers rallied for the go-ahead runs in the seventh, led off by Blake DeWitt’s double. Angel Berroa got on board with an error and DeWitt scored the go-ahead run on Nomar’s sac fly. Berroa then came around to score the insurance run on Ethier’s infield hit.
Clayton Kershaw lasted just four innings, scattering three runs on six hits. He gave up a solo homerun in the second and another in the third for the tying run. He then gave the Dbacks the lead in the fourth with an RBI-double. Proctor, Park, and Kuo then combined for 3 1/3 scoreless frames, with Kuo picking up the win before Broxton closed it out for his 13th save.
The Dodgers look to extend their win streak to nine when they head out on the road, beginning in San Diego on Monday. Greg Maddux will take the mound and face Cha Seung Baek. Maddux picked up his first win as a Dodger against his former team and looks to make it two straight. Baek is 4-10, with one of those losses against the Dodgers this past week.
