Pfaadt earns MLB-best seventh win as Diamondbacks beat scuffling Dodgers

LOS ANGELES — Brandon Pfaadt changed into the primary seven-game winner within the majors, Lourdes Gurriel Jr., Gabriel Moreno and Geraldo Perdomo every hit a two-run homer, and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 9-5 on Monday evening.

Coming off a three-game sweep by means of the last-place Los Angeles Angels, the NL West-leading Dodgers dropped their fourth in a row at house for the primary time since May 2018, after they misplaced 5 directly. They’ve allowed six or extra runs in 5 of 7 video games to start out the homestand.

Fans booed when Landon Knack gave up two-run photographs to Gurriel and Moreno that made it 7-0 within the 3rd inning. Dodgers opener Jack Dreyer (2-2) let the D-backs construct a 3-0 lead on Eugenio Suárez’s RBI double, Josh Naylor’s RBI groundout and Perdomo’s sacrifice fly.

Dodgers rookie Hyeseong Kim in heart signaled too overdue to correct fielder Teoscar Hernández that he couldn’t see the ball hit by means of Suárez and it dropped as an alternative of being the second one out of the primary inning.

Pfaadt (7-3) used to be best via 3 innings till Mookie Betts’ homer with one out within the fourth. The right-hander allowed back-to-back solo photographs by means of Shohei Ohtani and Betts within the 6th, leaving the Dodgers trailing 7-3.

Pfaadt walked one in six innings. Shelby Miller were given the overall out for his 5th save.

Arizona’s body of workers did not document a strikeout till Juan Morillo were given Hernández within the 7th.

Batting 9th, Perdomo had Arizona’s 3rd two-run homer off Matt Sauer within the 8th.

It used to be the primary time the Dodgers homered back-to-back since Oct. 26, when Freddie Freeman and Hernández did so within the World Series towards the New York Yankees.

RHP Ryne Nelson (1-1, 5.13 ERA) makes his 2d get started Tuesday for the D-backs towards Dodgers RHP Yoshinobu Yamamoto (5-3, 2.12).