LOS ANGELES – With his offense again on the fritz, Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said his biggest regret from his late-game decisions in Friday night’s loss to the Dodgers was that his focus was more on run-prevention than run-scoring.
“That’s what I’ve struggled with probably over the last 12 hours,” Lovullo said. “I was probably thinking more of a defensive thought, like, ‘How are we going to hold them off?’ rather than how we should be plowing right through them.”
Instead than going to his bench to hit for catcher Jeff Mathis and pitcher Zack Greinke in a tie game in the eighth inning, Lovullo stuck with them, watching as his team failed to score in the top of the inning, then allowing the Dodgers to take the lead in the bottom half.