Two of the hottest teams in baseball over the past month will open a three-game series beginning Tuesday night when the Los Angeles Dodgers host the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The Dodgers (55-29) are 20-4 since June 7, but only gained two games on the Diamondbacks in that span. Los Angeles enters the series 2 1/2 games ahead of Arizona in the NL West standings.
The Diamondbacks (52-31) avoided their first four-game losing streak of the season by defeating the Colorado Rockies 6-2 on Saturday and then took the rubber game 4-3 on Sunday.
“I think we’ve done a good job this whole year just taking it game by game, day by day, inning by inning, at-bat by at-bat,” Diamondbacks first baseman Paul Goldschmidt told the Arizona Republic.