Ketel Marte on Thursday hit a homer with one out in the ninth inning after Taiwanese-American outfielder Corbin Carroll homered in a two-run eighth as the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-2 in Phoenix to gain a split of a four-game series.
Marte hit the first pitch he saw from Tanner Scott (1-3) deep down the left-field line for his 11th homer of the season to cap the Diamondbacks’ comeback.
Carroll went deep off Will Klein to open the eighth, before Gabriel Moreno walked and Ryan Wildschmidt hit a one-out single to left. Alex Vesia replaced Klein and gave up a two-out single to Geraldo Perdomo, tying the game 2-2.
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Carroll finished with three hits, while Perdomo and Waldschmidt had two apiece for the Diamondbacks, who had lost five of their previous six games.
Arizona reliever Paul Sewald (2-4) pitched around Will Smith’s two-out double in the ninth.
Ryan Ward and Dalton Rushing had run-scoring hits in an injury-marred fifth inning to give the Dodgers a 2-0 lead that Justin Wrobleski nursed through six innings.
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The game was delayed for several minutes with two outs in the fifth inning after the Max Muncy of the Dodgers collided with Arizona first baseman Ildemaro Vargas while running out a single to deep first.
Muncy beat Vargas to the bag by a half-step and the two met head-on, with Muncy’s forearms striking Vargas in the chest. Both remained on the ground and were attended to by medical staff before leaving the game.
Muncy was removed with shortness of breath and to rule out a concussion, the Dodgers announced. Vargas was holding his left hip while on the ground and left under his own power.
When play resumed, Arizona’s Carroll misjudged a line drive by Ward that went over his head for a double, scoring pinch runner Santiago Espinal for the first run.
Center fielder Waldschmidt misjudged Rushing’s high pop into left-center that fell for the single to drive in Ward for a 2-0 lead.
Wrobleski gave up six hits and struck out four without a walk in six scoreless innings for the Dodgers, who had won 16 of their prior 20 games.
Diamondbacks starter Ryne Nelson gave up two runs on five hits in seven innings. He logged three strikeouts and two walks.
Nelson retired the first 12 he faced on 43 pitches before Kyle Tucker singled to right leading off the fifth. Tucker was erased on a double play, bringing up Muncy.
In Houston, Texas, Astros right-hander Teng Kai-wei, the only active Taiwanese pitcher in the MLB, suffered his fourth loss of the season as his team fell 5-1 to the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Teng allowed five runs over five innings on seven hits, including two doubles and a home run, while issuing two walks. He had only one strikeout, his lowest total in his past four outings.
The Pirates, who had scored at least nine runs in each of their previous four games, entered the contest averaging 5.16 runs per game, the fourth-highest mark in the majors.
They got off to a quick start in the first, getting a run on two hits off Teng, but were shut out over the next four innings by the 27-year-old as he settled into a rhythm.
Teng’s downfall came in the sixth, when he allowed the four batters he faced to reach safely. Ryan O’Hearn delivered the big blow for the Pirates, a two-run homer, giving his team a 4-0 lead.
Teng was then pulled, but the final batter he faced, Nick Gonzales, who reached in an infield hit, came around to score on an error, adding an unearned run to Teng’s final pitching numbers.
Houston struggled offensively, going hitless in eight at-bats with runners in scoring position. Their only run was an Isaac Paredes solo home run in the sixth inning.
Teng fell to 3-4 after the outing, with his earned run average rising to 3.06. The five runs and four earned runs were the most he has given up in any appearance with the Astros this year.
Pirates starter Jared Jones earned his first win of the season after allowing four hits over five innings.
Elsewhere, the Cubs edged the Athletics 7-6, the Phillies pipped the Padres 6-4, the Orioles routed the Red Sox 8-2, the Yankees overcame the Guardians 2-1, the Giants downed the Brewers 12-9, the Blue Jays beat the Braves 7-2 and the Royals tamed the Twins 8-6.
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