{"id":344623,"date":"2026-06-03T11:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344623\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T11:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:27:19","slug":"tanner-scott-bounces-back-to-save-dodgers-win-over-diamondbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344623\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanner Scott bounces back to save Dodgers’ win over Diamondbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PHOENIX\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Dodgers<\/a> had managed to cling to their lead over the Diamondbacks despite the comeback attempt the home team had mounted in the late innings.<\/p>\n

Now it was up to left-hander Tanner Scott, coming off his first blown save of the season, to finish the job.<\/p>\n

With the would-be tying run standing on first base and one out, Scott crashed hard on Geraldo Perdomo\u2019s sacrifice bunt and zipped a throw across the diamond just in time for the out.<\/p>\n

Then to tie a bow on the outing, Scott got Pavin Smith to lunge after an outside slider and ground into the final out of the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was good to see,\u201d manager Dave Roberts said after the Dodgers\u2019 6-5 win Tuesday<\/a>. I thought from pitch one he was pitching with a purpose. Obviously there was no margin with a one-run lead. I just liked the way he was going after those guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though the Dodgers led for the game from Freddie Freeman\u2019s first-inning homer on, it was a nail-biter. The Diamondbacks rallied against a Dodgers bullpen that had been practically flawless for weeks. Roberts made five pitching changes. But with an offensive bounce-back and strong pitching performances on the front and back end, the Dodgers evened the series at Chase Field.<\/p>\n

\"Mookie <\/p>\n

Mookie Betts, from left, Max Muncy, Freddie Freeman and Alex Freeland await the pitcher.<\/p>\n

(Rick Scuteri \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s nice after only scoring one [Monday] to get out and get some runs early on the board,\u201d said Freeman, who led the team with three hits. \u201cFour runs in the first couple innings, you would hope you keep going. But two in the middle innings there was good enough. Pitching was good again. Got a little hairy at the end, but luckily pulled it off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Freeman and Ohtani teamed up to give the Dodgers that four-run lead against Diamondbacks starter Michael Soroka in the first two innings.<\/p>\n

A double from Ohtani preceded Freeman\u2019s first-inning blast. Then the next inning, Dalton Rushing and Alex Freeland\u2019s back-to-back singles set up Ohtani to score them both when he lined a triple into the right-field corner.<\/p>\n

Dodgers starter Eric Lauer, making his second start since the trade that brought him over from the Blue Jays, tossed two scoreless frames to maintain that lead.<\/p>\n

In the third, however, Diamondbacks star Corbin Carroll sent a cutter the other way, and it bounced off the top of the left-field wall into the home bullpen for Arizona\u2019s first run of the night.<\/p>\n

Lauer relied on soft contact to throw a scoreless fourth inning, but he ran into some trouble in the fifth, with back-to-back singles, a sacrifice fly, a disengagement violation and PitchCom issues.<\/p>\n

In a two-run game, Roberts pulled the plug before Lauer could face right-handed No. 3 hitter Gabriel Moreno for a third time, even though Lauer had set him down twice. Lauer\u2019s pitch count was only up to 70, after giving up five hits in 4 \u2154 innings.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I could have tried to convince him on the mound [to let me stay in], but he kind of stuck his hand out right away, so I didn\u2019t have a huge chance there,\u201d Lauer said. \u201cBut afterwards, we talked, and he explained his thought process to me and just reiterated his thoughts, and I agreed. And I think that\u2019s huge, just to be able to have that conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lauer did have an inkling, however, that he wasn\u2019t going to be in the game too much longer with Nolan Arenado on deck. Arenado entered Tuesday with eight hits off Lauer in 27 at-bats (.296 batting average). Half of them were homers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re still learning each other, so it\u2019s just making sure that [he knows] I do believe in him,\u201d Roberts said of their conversation. \u201cIf I\u2019m not going to let him go through Arenado right there, I felt it would give Blake the best chance to get us out of that inning in a tight ball game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want him looking over his shoulder. I pushed him in his first start, didn\u2019t push him this start, because he was really good for us. And I just don\u2019t want anything lost in translation or the assumption game. So I just wanted to kind of be forthright.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Shohei <\/p>\n

Shohei Ohtani reacts after scoring on a single by Mookie Betts in the seventh inning,<\/p>\n

(Rick Scuteri \/ AP)<\/p>\n

Roberts turned to right-handed reliever Blake Treinen, who walked Moreno but got out of the inning by inducing Arenado to fly out to left field. Rookie Ryan Ward, in his fourth major league game, made the sliding catch.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers (39-22<\/a>) added insurance in the seventh, manufacturing the first with a double from Dalton Rushing, sacrifice bunt from Alex Freeland, an intentional walk to Ohtani, and sacrifice fly from Andy Pages. Back-to-back singles from Freedman and Betts pushed across a second run.<\/p>\n

The Diamondbacks countered. And for the first time, the Dodgers\u2019 lead looked like it was in danger.<\/p>\n

Dodgers reliever Kyle Hurt\u2019s command was shaky from the start. And his two walks with less than two out in the seventh came back to haunt him, as both baserunners scored on Arenado\u2019s double off the wall. Ward bobbled the ball as he picked it up for the relay home and a close play at the plate for the second run.<\/p>\n

Hurt issued a third walk, a season high, before fellow right-hander Will Klein replaced him.<\/p>\n

Pinch-hitter Geraldo Perdomo shot a line-drive single off Klein into shallow left field, loading the bases. Klein walked in a run, which trimmed the Dodgers\u2019 lead to 6-5.<\/p>\n

A broken-bat grounder to the right side of the infield, hunted down by Freeman ranging to his backhand side from first base, ended the inning.<\/p>\n

Infield defense again got Klein out of a jam in the eighth, turning a double play after back-to-back singles to maintain the lead.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re not going to be clean every time out there,\u201d Roberts said of Hurt and Klein, two relievers he\u2019s trusted in high-leverage situations this year. \u201cThey\u2019ve both been very good for us. You\u2019ve got to give those guys credit today, the Diamondbacks. They spoiled some pitches. They hit to the opposite field. They battled tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott (2.10 ERA) took over in the ninth, in his first appearance since Saturday, when he broke a streak of 12 appearances without giving up a run. His wife Maddie posted screenshots of the death threats their family received via social media in the aftermath.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Scott retired three of the four batters he faced, with only a well-placed single through the right side of the field \u2014 a \u201csoft-serve hit, as Roberts put it\u201d \u2014 marring the outing.<\/p>\n

Said Roberts: \u201cOutside of that, he was really sharp tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Dodgers had managed to cling to their lead over the Diamondbacks despite the comeback attempt the home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[85853,141587,88967,88598,426,70215,141589,4203,423,18316,48,52,51,133821,47,50,49,141588,424,2668,422],"class_list":["post-344623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-alex-freeland","tag-back-to-back-single","tag-dalton-rushing","tag-diamondbacks","tag-dodgers","tag-early-lead","tag-fast-start","tag-freddie-freeman","tag-game","tag-klein","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lauer","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-next-inning","tag-roberts","tag-run","tag-shohei-ohtani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}