D-Backs keep rolling in win over Dodgers
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Gerardo Parra went 2-for-3 and knocked in 2, game series.
Paul Goldschmidt and Ryan Roberts each had two hits and an RBI for the D- Backs, who have won five of six to stay 8 1/2 games ahead of the Giants atop the NL West standings.
Joe Saunders (11-12) was effective through seven frames, allowing just four hits and two runs to earn the win.
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"My game plan was to throw strikes and not walk anyone," Saunders said. "I was able to mix my pitches. I was able to get ahead of guys and make them hit my pitch."
Ted Lilly (9-14) was handed a career-worst 14th loss after surrendering three runs on three hits and three walks in 5 1/3 innings of work.
"Ted pitched good. It was one of those games you question yourself of taking him out," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "It didn't work out tonight."
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Matt Kemp's home run in the first inning, his 33rd of the season, was the lone offense for Los Angeles until Jerry Sands singled in a run in the seventh.
Lilly kept the visitors off the board over the first five frames, but Willie Bloomquist led off the sixth with a single and raced around to score on Aaron Hill's double.
The Dodgers went to the bullpen with runners on the corners and one out, and Matt Guerrier surrendered run-scoring hits to Goldschmidt and Roberts around a walk to Chris Young.
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Guerrier was pulled without recording an out, and Parra greeted Scott Elbert with a two-run single to left, pushing the margin to 5-1.
Parra doubled in a pair in the eighth, and D-Backs closer J.J. Putz stranded the bases loaded in the ninth to secure his 39th save.
Game Notes
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D-Backs catcher Miguel Montero went 0-for-3 to snap an 18-game hitting streak...Sands had half of the Dodgers' six hits.