 attempted to force out Jay at third.The ball soared past third baseman Taylor Ward, and Jay got up and sprinted home.Diamondbacks closer Brad Boxberger (2-4) pitched a scoreless ninth.David Peralta drove in three runs and came a triple short of the cycle for Arizona.The Angels rallied from a pair of two-run deficits to tie it, scoring twice in the seventh inning on pinch-hitter Jefry Marte's home run and David Fletcher's two-out triple. Fletcher had three hits and two RBIs.Both teams' starting pitchers lasted six innings but got no-decisions. Felix Pena struck out a career-high 12 but allowed four runs and seven hits for Los Angeles, while Arizona's Patrick Corbin gave up two runs and five hits and struck out eight.Peralta hit his seventh home run in 12 games, a two-run shot into the Diamondbacks' bullpen in left field with one out in the first inning. The Diamondbacks lead the majors with 109 first-inning runs.The Angels tied it in the third on run-scoring singles for Fletcher and Andrelton Simmons after Kole Calhoun led off with a double.But the Diamondbacks got to Pena again in the third, stringing together four consecutive singles for two runs to take a 4-2 lead. Peralta and Steven Souza Jr. had the RBI hits in the inning, though Arizona left the bases loaded.Marte homered into the second deck in left field with two out in the seventh off reliever Yoshihisa Hirano, making it 4-3. Fletcher tripled off Archie Bradley to drive in Kole Calhoun and tie it.WILD BATPena swung and missed at a 3-1 pitch in the fourth, and his bat flew into the Diamondbacks dugout and almost struck manager Torey Lovullo. That brought Lovullo, who stared down Pena for a moment, out of the dugout to talk with home plate umpire Manny Gonzalez, but nothing more came of it.WEEKEND ROTATIONLovullo set his starting rotation for the upcoming series against the Seattle Mariners. Right-hander Zack Godley pitches Friday in the opener, followed by left-hander Robbie Ray and righty Zack Greinke. Ray gets an extra day to do some side work with pitching coach Mike Butcher, Lovullo said.TRAINER'S ROOMAngels: OF Justin Upton went on the 10-day disabled list with a cut on his left index finger he suffered Sunday night. ... OF Mike Trout (wrist) is expected to rejoin the team at the end of the week, manager Mike Scioscia said. ... P-DH Shohei Ohtani (elbow) pitched a simulated game Monday at the Angels' spring training facility in nearby Tempe. The plan is to get him up to 45 or 50 pitches in a bullpen session early next week and eventually be re-evaluated to return to pitching as a starter. ... RHP Matt Shoemaker will throw a bullpen session on Wednesday, trying to come back from a forearm injury that has forced him out of almost the entire season.Diamondbacks: RHP Shelby Miller (elbow) threw from 75 feet on Tuesday. ... OF Jarrod Dyson is fielding, hitting and sprinting as he comes back from a groin injury.UP NEXTAngels: RHP Odrisamer Despaigne (2-1) is set for his second appearance with the Angels. He hasn't faced Arizona since September 2015 while with the San Diego Padres.Diamondbacks: RHP Clay Buchholz (6-2) faces the Angels in the series finale on Wednesday. He's made 13 starts against the Angels in his career.---More MLB: https://apnews.com/tag/MLB and https://twitter.com/-Sports)
StubHubStubHubAngels get to see Corbin as member of D-backs 5h ago• 4 min read PHOENIX -- The Los Angeles Angels got it exactly right when they selected Patrick Corbin in the second round of the 2009 draft.Corbin has become a two-time All-Star, one on either side of a Tommy John surgery that cost him the 2014 season, and he has positioned himself to be one of the plums in the offseason free agent market.Finally, the Angels will get to see him for the first time in a major league setting.Corbin (10-4) was traded to Arizona at the July 2010 deadline, and he will make his initial appearance against the Angels in the first game of a two-game interleague series on Tuesday at Chase Field. Right-hander Felix Pena (1-3) is to start for the Angels.Corbin was acquired by Arizona then-interim general manager Jerry Dipoto in package that included left-handers Joe Saunders and Tyler Skaggs in exchange for Dan Haren.Skaggs is back in the Angels' rotation, Haren is back with the Diamondbacks as their pitching strategist, and Corbin is the one who got away.He is among the NL leaders in victories, strikeouts and WHIP among other categories, and he will bring a streak of 10 consecutive starts without allowing a home run into the start. He has given up 11 homers in 155 2/3 innings.The Diamondbacks bring a one-half game lead in the NL West race after taking three of four from San Diego last weekend. They were 5-4 on a road trip to three fifth-place teams, including Cincinnati and Texas.Paul Goldschmidt set a franchise record by reaching base in 10 consecutive plate appearances in San Diego He was 18-for-36 with four homers and 10 RBIs on the trip, and he enters with a 12-game hitting streak."We know what the stakes are, we know exactly what's going on in the standings," Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said after late homers by Daniel Descalso and A. J. Pollock lifted them to a 4-3 victory on Sunday."These are the types of games you have to find a way to win. To get a solo homer in the eighth and a solo homer in the ninth to win it ... it was an exceptional win. "The Angels also had fun in San Diego, sweeping a three-game series early last week, but that was tempered when they lost three of four in soggy Texas last weekend. They have won eight of 13.The Angels have done all of that without All-star center fielder Mike Trout, who has been on the disabled list with a right wrist injury retroactive to Aug. 6. He has been away from the team after the passing of his brother-in-law, Aaron Cox, last week.Starters Kole Calhoun, David Fletcher, Shohei Ohtani, Albert Pujols and Justin Upton were 23-for-67 with three homers and 10 RBIs in Texas, but the Angels were outscored 25-23 in the series."We have been scoring some runs," Angels manager Mike Sciascia told reporters. "I thought we had good at-bats in this series, we just, on the mound we had some leads and didn't hold them very well." They seemingly will need to be just as efficient against Corbin.Corbin has won four straight decisions and has only one loss in his last 10 starts while becoming the third double-digit winner for the Diamondbacks, the only team in the NL with three. The back-to-back Zacks -- Godley (13-6) and Greinke (12-8) -- are the others. Godley precedes Greinke in the rotation.Third in the NL with 190 strikeouts, Corbin has 41 strikeouts and three walks in his last five starts. His slider has been a dominant out pitch, and he is throwing it a career-high 40 percent of the time, according to Fangraphs."He has a really innate quality to locate balls at the bottom of the zone," Lovullo said after Corbin's last start, a 6-4 victory at Texas on Tuesday."You come to this ballpark, you wonder often what are going to be the conditions, and the ball does fly out of here. ... Patrick did a great job, exceptional job of keeping the ball down (and) out of trouble." Right-hander Miguel Batista set the franchise record of 11 straight starts without giving up a homer in 2003. Corbin is tied with Boston left-hander Chris Sale, recently returned to the disabled list, for the longest streak without giving up a homer from a starter this season.Pena, who has a 4.35 ERA, joined the rotation for good when he made his third start of the sesaon against Arizona on June 19. He did not get a decision in the Angels' 5-4 victory while giving up only two hits and one run in four innings.Pena is coming off his best outing of the season, a 3-2 victory at San Diego in which he gave up six hits and one unearned run while striking out seven. He is 1-1 with a 1.31 ERA in his four road starts this season.
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