Andy Pages drove in three runs and Teoscar Hernandez stroked a two-run double as the Los Angeles Dodgers notched an 8-4 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday night at Phoenix.
Will Smith homered to help the Dodgers win for the seventh time in the past eight games. Shohei Ohtani, Enrique Hernandez and Teoscar Hernandez had two hits apiece for Los Angeles.
Ketel Marte had two hits for the Diamondbacks as the defending National League champions lost in their first meeting of the season against the perennial powerful Dodgers. Blaze Alexander walked three times and scored twice for Arizona, which has dropped four of its last five games.
James Paxton (3-0) gave up four runs and six hits over five innings for the Dodgers. Paxton walked five and struck out four.
Diamondbacks’ pitchers didn’t record any strikeouts while walking eight.
Arizona’s Andrew Saalfrank walked the bases loaded with out in the fifth to set up a four-run Los Angeles uprising.
Teoscar Hernandez ripped a two-run, ground-rule double to right center to make it 4-1. Three batters later, Pages laced a two-run double inside the left-field line off Scott McGough to make it a five-run margin.
Arizona battled back with three runs in the bottom of the frame. Eugenio Suarez had a run-scoring single, Lourdes Gurriel Jr. scored on a wild pitch and Randal Grichuk hit a sacrifice fly.
Smith homered on a first-pitch fastball from Logan Allen to make it 7-4 with two outs in the sixth. The 407-foot blast to center was Smith’s third homer of the season.
Ohtani had an RBI single in the eighth to give the Dodgers a four-run lead.
Evan Phillips worked the bottom of the ninth in a non-save situation.
Los Angeles scored twice in the second inning for a 2-1 lead. Enrique Hernandez hit an RBI double off Tommy Henry (1-2) and Pages followed with a sacrifice fly.
The Diamondbacks struck first in the opening inning on Christian Walker’s sacrifice fly.
Henry allowed two runs and five hits and walked two over four innings.
–Field Level Media
