The Diamondbacks crushed the previously impenetrable Nathan Eovaldi on Monday at the Rangers and took a 5-0 lead, but Texas came back to walk off Arizona in 10 innings, 7-6.
Pinch hitter Jake Burger delivered the game-winning single against Andrew Saalfrank after Rowdy Tellez tied the game in the ninth with a home run off Andrew Hoffmann, a rookie who recorded a 1-2-3 eighth inning and was left in to go get a six-out save.
Arizona appeared to be in control of this game with a 6-1 lead and 12 outs left to get. Instead, the D-backs fell to 4-9 in extra innings and 13-22 in one-run games.
They have 22 blown saves as a team, which leads the National League, and became the first club in Major League Baseball this season to lose multiple games after recording at least four home runs and 11 hits (3-2).
The Diamondbacks’ three-game winning streak ended on a night when they broke through against one of the game’s hottest starting pitchers.
Diamondbacks hit Nathan Eovaldi hard
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Eovaldi allowed five earned runs over his previous eight starts entering Monday night, but the Diamondbacks matched that number in only three innings.
The veteran right-hander surrendered one home run over that eight-game stretch to lower his season ERA to 1.38. And yet, Tyler Locklear, Corbin Carroll and Geraldo Perdomo took him deep.
The Diamondbacks have homered in nine straight games, tied with Atlanta for the second-longest streak in the major leagues. They finished Monday’s game with four home runs, their most since blasting four at Petco Park on July 9.
Locklear stayed back on a curveball down and shot it deep to left field in the second inning, his second long ball since joining the Diamondbacks at the trade deadline.
In the third, Carroll climbed the ladder and crushed a fastball way above the strike zone for his career-high 26th home run, and Perdomo smacked his 12th of the year. Carroll and Perdomo both hit two-run shots.
Eovaldi also hit two batters with pitches in the third inning in a discombobulated start to the game. He managed to complete five innings with the five earned runs on eight hits, both season highs, as the D-backs managed one run after the third inning. Blaze Alexander hit the fourth home run in the sixth.
Diamondbacks rely on rookie bullpen
Ryne Nelson was fantastic through five innings, having allowed one earned run on three hits with six strikeouts. He was leaning even heavier than usual on the four-seam fastball, which had a lot of life and blew away many Rangers hitters.
When the top of the order came up a third time, it started to piece up Nelson, whose heater had started to diminish in velocity and effectiveness.
Four runs scored in the sixth inning, capped by a three-run shot from Wyatt Langford.
The Diamondbacks turned to the bullpen to lock down a suddenly one-run lead. Juan Burgos, Kyle Backhus and Hoffmann succeeded in doing so through the eighth inning, but Hoffmann hung a changeup to Tellez that tied the score.
Arizona dropped to 57-62.
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