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Clayton Kershaw worked five solid innings to tie for second in the los angeles dodgers‘ all-time wins list and helped to another victory in August, this time a 9-1 victory over the visitors on Tuesday. arizona diamondbacks.
Kershaw (12-4) allowed one run and three hits in five innings, matching Don Drysdale for his 209th career win. Don Sutton is the franchise leader with 233 wins.
He dodgers it improved to 23-4 in August to tie for the third-most wins in a month in franchise history.
Mookie Betts set a career-high with his 36th home run and Will Smith also connected deep as Los Angeles has six home runs in the first two games of the series. Chris Taylor reached base four times for the dodgers with three hits and a walk.
Corbin Carroll hit a home run for the diamondbackswhile Merrill Kelly’s struggles against the dodgers He continued while giving up seven runs and 12 hits in five innings. Kelly fell to 0-11 against Los Angeles in 16 starts with a 5.49 ERA.
He diamondbacks it lost the first two games of the series after starting with 10 wins in its previous 12 games. He dodgers finished the season series at 7-5 with one more game to go on Wednesday.
He dodgers He jumped ahead 3-0 in the first inning on David Peralta’s RBI double and Jason Heyward’s two-run double. He made it 4-0 in the second inning on an RBI single by Miguel Rojas.
Peralta hit an RBI single in the third and had three hits in the game. Three batters later, Taylor’s double gave the dodgers a 6-0 lead.
Carroll’s 23rd home run for Arizona came in the fifth inning off Kershaw.
James Outman added a sacrifice fly to dodgers run in the fifth, while Betts and Smith homered in the sixth. Betts has hit 71 of his 249 career home runs over the past two seasons.
—Field-level media
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