PHOENIX — When the Arizona Diamondbacks signed Corbin Burnes to a franchise-record six-year, $210 million contract last winter, just a little more than they gave Zack Greinke in 2015, this is what they hoped they were buying.
Burnes didn’t quite pitch up to his Cy Young pedigree in April and received a cortisone injection for shoulder inflammation, skipping a start and taking a 10-day break before facing the Dodgers on Saturday.
The shot worked. Burnes handcuffed the Dodgers for seven scoreless innings as the Diamondbacks won 3-0.
Burnes wasn’t untouchable. The Dodgers had five hits and two walks off of him and put runners in scoring position in the third, fourth and fifth innings.
Hyeseong Kim was stranded at second in the third and then at third base in the fifth after a leadoff single. Kim’s speed bothered Burnes enough in the third that he balked him to second by making a third pickoff throw to first base – a disengagement violation that advanced Kim.
In the fifth, Kim led off with a single and got to third with two outs, but was stranded there.
The Dodgers got a one-out single from Andy Pages and a walk of Max Muncy to put two runners on with one out in the fourth. Burnes struck out Kike’ Hernandez and Michael Conforto to thwart that rally and retired nine of the final 10 batters he faced.
Dodgers starter Dustin May did his part to make it a pitcher’s duel, pitching into the seventh inning for the first time since May 2023 (before his second elbow surgery and a life-threatening esophageal incident).
But he gave up two runs along the way. Speedy Corbin Carroll led off the third inning with a drive to deep center field that eluded Kim and went for a triple. Carroll scored on a ground out.
In the sixth, May left a first-pitch sinker over the inner half of the plate to Eugenio Suarez and he crushed it, launching it 455 feet into the second-level overlook in center field for a solo home run.
The Diamondbacks added an insurance run in the eighth inning on back-to-back doubles by Ketel Marte and Pavin Smith against Kirby Yates.
A night after scoring 14 runs, including six in the ninth inning, the Dodgers’ final six batters were retired in order by Diamondbacks reliever Ryne Nelson.
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