LOS ANGELES — The Arizona Diamondbacks let a very good Corbin Burnes start go to waste with a 3-1 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday, dropping a series they had ample opportunities to win.
After falling in extra innings on Tuesday, the Diamondbacks did not have much juice offensively, while a defensive missed chance potentially cost Burnes three runs.
Burnes sat down the first 11 hitters he faced and allowed two baserunners through five innings.
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The Dodgers finally built an inning in the sixth with a pair of ground-ball singles not hit particularly sharply. A Mookie Betts single bounced under the glove of third baseman Eugenio Suarez moving to his left, a possible double play ball that would have ended the inning.
The D-backs quickly suffered from having given the Dodgers an inch. Burnes struck out Freddie Freeman for the second out, but Teoscar Hernandez timed up a slider that caught too much of the plate and shot it over the center-field wall.
Instead of a 1-0 lead, the D-backs trailed 3-1 on a night in which the offensive production lacked.
Burnes finished with seven innings, three earned runs and eight strikeouts. He extended his scoreless innings streak to 21 before the Hernandez homer.
The Diamondbacks struggled to get anything going against Los Angeles’ starter for a second straight game. Dustin May was sharp, holding Arizona to one run through six innings with eight strikeouts. The D-backs were shut out through seven innings by Yoshinobu Yamamoto on Tuesday before breaking out against the Los Angeles bullpen.
Ketel Marte hit a solo shot in the fourth inning off May, but other than that, the right-hander allowed four singles and one walk. Arizona had its chance with runners on the corners and one out in the sixth but failed to execute.
The D-backs had runners on the corners with two outs again in the seventh, as Geraldo Perdomo and Corbin Carroll singled. Marte, however, bounced out to second.
Arizona entered Wednesday hitting .191 with runners in scoring position and two outs, the fifth-worst average in MLB. Last year, the D-backs hit .260 in such situations, which was second behind L.A.
Overall, Arizona out-hit the Dodgers 7-5 but left seven men on base on Wednesday. It lost a game in which Shohei Ohtani went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts.
A missed opportunity dropped the Diamondbacks to 26-24 at the 50-game mark. It’s better than their 24-26 record last year but still disappointing in the sense that they’ve played so many games in which they just could not quite put it all together.
Diamondbacks’ next game
The D-backs get Thursday off before starting a three-game series in St. Louis on Friday.
The Cardinals are 27-23, sitting in second place in the NL Central. They rattled off a nine-game winning streak earlier this month.
Arizona’s Zac Gallen and St. Louis right-hander Miles Mikolas will start the opener on Apple TV+.
The game will also air on 98.7 and the Arizona Sports app.
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