Gonzalez Homers For 4th Straight Game, Dodgers Sweep Diamondbacks
PHOENIX (CBSLA.com/AP) — Adrian Gonzalez homered for the fourth consecutive game and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 8-6 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.
Gonzalez's three-run shot off Trevor Cahill (0-4) in the third inning gave him 10 RBIs in the series. He has 27 career home runs and 87 RBIs against the Diamondbacks, most among active players.
Matt Kemp and Juan Uribe also homered for the Dodgers. Dan Haren (2-0) allowed three runs in 5 2-3 innings to get the victory.
Mark Trumbo hit a three-run home run and Eric Chavez had a solo shot for the Diamondbacks.
Dee Gordon stole a career-best four bases, the most by a Dodger in a game since Rafael Furcal did it against Arizona in 2007.
Cahill failed to make it through the fifth inning for the third time in his four starts.
He went four innings plus two batters, allowing seven runs -- six earned -- on seven hits. Cahill struck out eight but walked five. Haren scattered nine hits, striking out five and walking one.
Kenley Jansen pitched a perfect ninth for his fourth save and second in as many games.
The Dodgers, who scored 22 runs in the three games, led 8-3 before Trumbo's sixth home run of the season, off Jamey Wright with two outs in the seventh, cut it to 8-6. Gerardo Parra and Paul Goldschmidt had singled ahead of the Diamondbacks slugger.
Gonzalez, who also doubled, had an extra-base hit for the eighth consecutive game, one shy of the franchise record. Ten of Gonzalez's 14 hits this season have gone for extra bases.
Of Los Angeles' nine victories this season, five have come against Arizona.
Kemp's line shot into the Arizona bullpen down the left field line put the Dodgers up 1-0 in the second.
Gordon walked to start the fourth, then stole second and third. Yasiel Puig walked and Hanley Ramirez bounced one high off the plate to Cahill, beating the throw to first for an infield RBI single. Gonzalez hit a 1-1 pitch into the right field seats to bring in three runs and Los Angeles led 5-0.
Arizona got three in its half of the third. Parra led off with a double and scored on Aaron Hill's triple to the left-center gap. Goldschmidt's groundout scored Hill, then Chavez skied one to the right field seats on the first pitch to cut the lead to 5-3.
In the fifth, Cahill walked Ramirez, then Gonzalez lashed a double to right and the Arizona right-hander's day was over. Randall Delgado, who just lost his spot in the rotation, came on in relief. Gonzalez scored on Andre Ethier's groundout, then the first baseman Goldschmidt couldn't snag a high bouncer for an error that brought in the Dodgers' seventh run.
Uribe's solo homer off Will Harris in the eighth made it 8-3.
Parra recorded the first right field-to-first putout in Diamondbacks history when he threw out Haren after the pitcher appeared to have singled. It was the first throw-out at first from the right fielder in the majors in two seasons.
The Dodgers have defeated the Diamondbacks in 12 of their last 15 match-ups, dating back to July 2013.
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