LOS ANGELES — Lourdes Gurriel Jr., Gabriel Moreno and Geraldo Perdomo each slugged two-run home runs, and the Arizona Diamondbacks played a more fundamentally sound game than the Los Angeles Dodgers in a 9-5 win on Monday.
The D-backs (26-22) won their fifth game out of their last seven, and they improved to 3-2 against the Dodgers this season.
It was very clear which team was sharper early on.
With two on and one out in the first inning, Eugenio Suarez hit a high pop fly to center field for a routine play. Dodgers center fielder Hyeseong Kim seemingly lost the ball in the sky, and right fielder Teoscar Hernandez did not get over in time to save the play.
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A run scored, and the D-backs pushed one more across by the end of the frame.
The second inning started with a Tim Tawa tapper to third base, which Max Muncy had trouble securing and firing an accurate throw. Tawa advanced on a wild pitch from Dodgers opener Jack Dreyer, skipped over to third on a fly ball and scored on a sacrifice fly from Perdomo.
The Diamondbacks, meanwhile, were on top of their defensive game for starter Brandon Pfaadt, from Suarez snagging short hops at third to Tawa running balls down in center field to Ketel Marte making a diving stop at second.
It was one of their more complete defensive efforts of the year.
Diamondbacks start hitting the ball out of the ballpark
The third inning was where the power came into play, as Gurriel and Moreno each hit two-run shots off Dodgers bulk innings eater Landon Knack.
Moreno’s was particularly eye-opening as it was his first home run to left field this season, and he crushed it 411 feet halfway up the bleachers.
Corbin Carroll just missed a homer of his own, as a line-drive shot to right just hooked foul. He ended up walking and scoring on Gurriel’s blast. The D-backs were up 7-0 in the third inning.
Gabriel Moreno CRUSHES this baseball!
The @Dbacks have a 7-0 lead in the 3rd ? pic.twitter.com/pXkMtVg3B0
— MLB (@MLB) May 20, 2025
Dodger Stadium had a similar sound to Game 1 of the NLDS in 2023, a packed crowd — which showed up early for Vin Scully bobblehead night — mixing groans and boos as nothing went right for the home team early on.
The Diamondbacks’ offense cooled off — even with a Carroll lead-off triple in the fourth inning — until the eighth inning. That’s when Perdomo popped his sixth homer of the season, tying his career high less than two months into the campaign.
Josh Naylor hit a ball to the wall in the ninth, but Hernandez leaped and came down with the robbery.
Geraldo Perdomo hits the third 2-run homer of the game for the @Dbacks! ? pic.twitter.com/OIppmr87WJ
— MLB (@MLB) May 20, 2025
Brandon Pfaadt’s peculiar statline
Pfaadt started the game with 3.1 perfect innings until Mookie Betts hit a solo shot in the fourth.
L.A. (29-19) dented Arizona’s lead with a trio of solo home runs in the middle innings, two from Betts and the other from Shohei Ohtani. They went back-to-back in the sixth.
Pfaadt had a bizarre statline but finished with another quality start.
Pfaadt lasted six innings for the seventh time in 10 starts, giving up three earned runs on three hits with no strikeouts. That’s right, he did not give up a hit that stayed in the yard. Plus, this was his first game all season without a single K.
Juan Morillo and Scott McGough each threw a shutout frame before Ryan Thompson ran into trouble in the ninth.
The Dodgers scored two runs off Thompson, and Arizona had to call on Shelby Miller to end the game.
Diamondbacks’ next game
The D-backs’ series at Chavez Ravine continues on Tuesday at 7:10 p.m.
Ryne Nelson (5.13 ERA) will start for the injured Eduardo Rodriguez, Nelson’s second start of the year. The Dodgers will turn to Yoshinobu Yamamoto (2.12 ERA), who allowed five runs at Chase Field on May 8.
Catch the game on 98.7 and the Arizona Sports app.
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