D-backs come out of break just like they entered it
PHOENIX -- The Diamondbacks talked of hitting the reset button and putting the first half of the season behind them before Friday's game. Manager Chip Hale said he wants to see "winning baseball" even if it doesn't come with actual wins.
Well, as rough as the season started way back in April, the start to the second half was worse.
The D-backs looked like the same team that entered the All-Star break losing 12 of its final 14 games. Very little of the brand of baseball Hale sought was on display in a 13-7 home loss to the Dodgers.
* They fell behind the in first inning on another home run off Patrick Corbin.
* They failed to score a running from third base with fewer than two outs.
* Jake Lamb committed two errors in one inning, which forced Corbin to throw more pitches than was necessary.
"He expended a lot of energy there," Hale said, "... and then things just fell apart from there."
* After the D-backs took a one-run lead in the third, Corbin gave it right back with a five-run inning.
"It's frustrating they did their job and I let them down," Corbin said. "They scored seven runs. We should win this game."
Corbin struck outs seven but also walked three and lasted just four innings.
"Just too many walks, putting myself in tough situations where I have to be perfect," said Corbin, who fell to 4-8 and saw his ERA climb to 5.25 after he gave up six earned runs. "I just haven't been able to get out of those jams."
* The first three relievers out of Hale's 10-man bullpen combined to give up five runs and nine hits in two innings.
* Dodgers' rookie Chris Taylor, who started the game with a .188 average, went 3 for 5, including a grand slam for his first career home run, and had six RBI. Taylor was a single shy of the cycle.
It was all enough to make a winner out of Bud Norris -- who previously was 0-7 with a 13.92 ERA in eight career games against the D-backs -- despite giving up four runs and eight hits in five innings.
The trio of Jean Segura, Paul Goldschmidt and Jake Lamb -- all bright spots in the first half -- picked up where they left off. Segura and Goldschmidt homered in the seventh, and Lamb had a pair of hits and his 62nd RBI.
For Goldschmidt, the homer was the 132nd in his career and tied him with Chris Young for third most in franchise history, behind Luis Gonzalez (225) and Steve Finley (153).
The D-backs are 15-33 at home.