The Dodgers narrowed the gap in the Quest for the NL West by hitting a homer run off Zack Greinke with one out in the seventh. Paul Goldschmidt provided Arizona’s scoring earlyert, with a two-run jack of his own.
A shake-off of Mathis in the seventh and the decision by Lovullo to let Greinke pitch in the eighth may well have been the points that made the difference in this game featuring great starts from both sides.
Despite the recent philosophy off shortening the leashes of the starting pitchers, TOrey Lovullo looked at Zack Greinke only having needed to throw 91 pitches to complete his seven innings of work and chose to let the pitcher bat for himself and then return to the mound in the eighth.