 over the left-field wall for his first home run of the season.Scott Oberg (6-0) got the win in relief for the second night in a row, though he gave up Nick Ahmed's tying RBI single in the bottom of the seventh. Adam Ottavino pitched the eighth and Wade Davis, who was out Friday due to an illness, escaped a jam in the ninth for his 28th save.Diamondbacks starter Zack Godley had a three-run lead and a no-hitter through four innings, but the Rockies scored two runs on three hits, a walk and a wild pitch in the fifth.Steven Souza Jr.'s RBI single in the bottom of the fifth pushed Arizona's lead back up to two.In the sixth, Godley threw wide on a bouncer back to the mound for an error before losing track of Ian Desmond at first base and allowing a stolen base. Desmond had driven in a run with a single, and reliever Silvino Bracho's wild pitch allowed Trevor Story to score the tying run, making it 4-4.Andrew Chafin relieved Bracho and got pinch hitter Raimel Tapia to hit into a pitcher-to-third double play to end the inning.Godley got through five innings and gave up three runs with six strikeouts and four walks.The Diamondbacks struck for three runs in the bottom of the fourth inning. Souza, batting .185 entering the game, had three hits and drove in two runs.Colorado answered with Desmond's triple to lead off the fifth, Garrett Hampson's double and Charlie Blackmon's two-out ground-rule double to make it 3-2. The Rockies had two on base against the struggling Godley, but he struck out All-Star Nolan Arenado to end the inning.Rockies starter Kyle Freeland lasted five innings and allowed four runs and five hits.SOLID DEBUTHampson, called up before the game, made his major-league debut Saturday, playing second base. He turned in a nice play ranging far to his right to throw out Chris Owings at first base in the second inning, and his first major-league hit was a run-scoring double in the fifth.Hampson also stole a hit from Jon Jay with a diving stop and throw in the eighth.A POWERFUL PITCHEight-year-old Hailey Dawson threw out the ceremonial first pitch wearing a 3-D printed robotic hand. She has a condition from birth that caused her to have a missing right pectoral muscle and only two underdeveloped fingers on her right hand.Hailey's goal is to throw a first pitch at every Major League Baseball stadium. Eight ballparks remain on her list, which is expected to be completed by mid-September.TRAINER'S ROOMRockies: 2B DJ LeMahieu was placed on the 10-day disabled list with a left oblique strain. Manager Bud Black said the two-time All-Star could miss a few weeks.Diamondbacks: Pitcher T. J. McFarland (neck) threw 15 pitches off a mound Saturday and could come of the disabled list as soon as Monday. ... OF Jarrod Dyson (groin) is doing baseball activities but not running the bases as yet.UP NEXTRockies: RHP Antonio Senzetela (3-2) is set to be reinstated from the disabled list to face Arizona after missing a turn in the rotation with a blister on his right middle finger.Diamondbacks: RHP Zack Greinke (10-5) makes his first start since before the All-Star Game after not pitching for the NL last Tuesday.---More baseball: https://apnews.com/tag/MLBbaseball)
Rockies, D-backs not conceding anything to Dodgers 29m ago• 4 min read PHOENIX -- Dodgers right-hander Ross Stripling probably meant well when he told the Los Angeles Times that the rest of the NL West might feel "demoralized" after the Dodgers acquired Manny Machado.Early returns suggest that was a bad choice of words.Contenders Arizona and Colorado did not seem to quiver before the start of their three-game series to open the post-break portion of the season Friday."We're the farthest thing from demoralized, I know that," Colorado manager Bud Black said before the Rockies' 11-10 victory over the Diamondbacks at Chase Field to move one-half game behind the Diamondbacks for second place in the NL West."Teams are going to do what they do. We worry about ourselves, and I think if we play our game we can play with anybody. With Machado or not. He's a good player. I'm sort of anxious to see him play. I haven't seen him play. As far our group being down about anything, no, not at all. Probably the opposite. It probably makes it more of a challenge." Arizona right-hander Zack Godley, who has never lost to the Rockies, will face Colorado left-hander Kyle Freeland in the second game of the series Saturday.The Diamondbacks echoed Black's sentiment."It's just another guy whose name is on the lineup card," Arizona left-hander Robbie Ray told mlb.com. "Just another scouting report you have to do. It's not like it's Babe Ruth." Machado was 2-for-3 with two walks in his first game with the Dodgers at Milwaukee on Friday after making the All-Star team with Baltimore, where he recorded 24 homers and 65 RBIs.The D-backs made the most valuable move in the division en route to a wild-card berth last season by acquiring J. D. Martinez, who had 29 homers and 65 RBIs in 62 games with Arizona."Last year, they (front office) did something to make us better, and I imagine they are going to do that again," right-hander Archie Bradley told mlb.com."You want to talk about being demoralized, let's go back to May and the way we were playing (going 2-17). That's demoralizing. Obviously it's going to make them better. He's a top-five player in this game probably, but at the end of the day you still have to lay it all there on the line. You have to go out and compete." The D-backs have only had their projected middle-of-the-order group of Paul Goldschmidt, A. J. Pollock, Steven Souza Jr. and Jake Lamb in the lineup for the last 10 games because of injuries to all but Goldschmidt."The guys in here, including myself, just need to play the way we are capable of," Souza Jr. said. "As soon as we do that, we are a really good ball club. Yeah, we've had an up-and-down year, but I still feel we are the team to beat in the division."He (Machado) is a really good ballplayer, but we have a really good ball club. He's only going to be able to bat four times in a game." Freeland (8-6) is sixth in the league with a 3.11 ERA. He ranks fourth among NL pitchers in WAR at 4.5, according to baseball-reference.com, behind only the Mets' Jacob deGrom, Philadelphia's Aaron Nola and Washington's two-time defending Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer.Freeland is 0-1 in two starts against Arizona this season and is coming off his best outing against them, when he gave up one run and six hits in 5 1/3 innings in a no-decision in the Rockies' 5-1 victory on July 12, his last start before the break."Fastball command has really improved from both sides of the plate, the consistency of his slider, how he is spinning it properly," Black said. "And I think more than anything, the increasing use of the changeup. It's a pitch he has used in the most critical of times, and that tells me that a pitcher has confidence in his changeup when he is throwing it in critical parts of the ball game." Freeland has not given up more than two runs in any of his last six starts, and he is 2-0 with four no-decisions in that span. The Rockies have won four of those games and are 11-8 in his starts.Freeland is 1-2 with a 4.07 ERA in five career starts against Arizona, his only victory coming in a 3-1 triumph at Chase Field on April 28, 2017, when he gave up one run in six innings. His only start against Arizona this season came on June 10, when he gave up four runs on four hits and four walks and took the loss in a Diamondbacks' 8-3 victory.Godley (11-6, 4.61 ERA) has pitched well of late. He has won six of his last seven decisions and has given up more than two runs only once in his last eight starts. His 1.56 WHIP is the highest among the 39 NL qualifiers, but he has been supported by 4 1/2 runs per game.He won his only start against the Rockies this season, giving up two runs in 5 2/3 innings in the game in which Freeland was the loser on June 10.Godley is 4-0 with a 2.76 ERA against the Rockies in six career appearances, including four starts, against them. He is 5-2 with a 3.72 ERA at home this season.
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