PHOENIX — As Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow went to the Injured List (yet to return) and bullpen games made an early-season cameo, the depth the Dodgers seemed to have assembled in starting pitching was not in evidence.
It might be starting to appear. Pitching like the All-Star he was in 2022 before Tommy John surgery in 2023 sidelined him for all of 2024, Tony Gonsolin held the Arizona Diamondbacks to three hits in five scoreless innings as the Dodgers won 8-1 Sunday afternoon.
Meanwhile, in Oklahoma City, Clayton Kershaw finished off his rehab assignment. He will join the Dodgers’ starting rotation next weekend.
Sunday’s win concluded the longest road trip of the season for the Dodgers, who went 6-4 on the three-city tour, taking two of three in Atlanta and Miami then splitting a four-game series in Arizona.
The trip started a stretch that will have the Dodgers playing 19 out of 20 days. In a nod to that – and the importance of the divisional matchup with the Diamondbacks – Gonsolin became the first Dodgers starter to pitch on four days’ rest this season (normal in most of MLB but frowned upon in the Dodgers’ business model).
He stranded two runners in the first inning and again in the third, helping push his pitch count to 84 in those five innings.
But the Dodgers were leading 3-0 by the time Gonsolin’s day was done, on their way to an easy win.
Held hitless Saturday, Freddie Freeman’s hitting streak ended at 14 games. He started a new one with four hits Sunday.
Freeman drove in the Dodgers’ first run with a double in the first inning, then drove in another with a sacrifice fly after Shohei Ohtani and Mookie Betts singled to start the fifth. With the infield in and Betts on third, Will Smith pushed a single through the middle for another run.
By the time the Diamondbacks broke through for a run against Ben Casparius in the seventh, the Dodgers had added single runs in the sixth and seventh. Ohtani drove in the sixth-inning run with an RBI single, and Freeman hit a solo home run in the seventh for his third hit and third RBI of the game.
The Dodgers put the game away in the ninth with three more runs. Betts hit a solo home run. Freeman singled and moved to second on a balk then scored on a double by Smith.
Smith is now 16 for 32 (.484) with runners in scoring position this season. He scored on a single by Andy Pages.
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