{"id":17526,"date":"2025-05-11T03:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T03:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/17526\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T03:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T03:08:09","slug":"dodgers-hot-streak-against-cy-young-winners-ends-during-loss-to-diamondbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/17526\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers hot streak against Cy Young winners ends during loss to Diamondbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dodgers<\/a> were a perfect 5-0 this season when facing former Cy Young Award winners.<\/p>\n

On Saturday night at Chase Field, however, they finally met their match.<\/p>\n

Despite missing his last scheduled start because of shoulder inflammation, Corbin Burnes<\/a> had his way with the Dodgers’ powerhouse lineup in a 3-0 win for the Arizona Diamondbacks, throwing seven shutout innings to ensure the Dodgers will do no better than split this four-game series between National League West rivals.<\/p>\n

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In a stark reversal from Friday night\u2019s 25-run thrill ride<\/a>, when the Dodgers needed a five-run rally in the third inning and a six-run come-from-behind outburst in the ninth to earn their lone win through three games this weekend, a pitcher\u2019s duel ensued under a closed roof at Chase Field on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Read more: Shohei Ohtani home run caps wild ninth-inning comeback in Dodgers’ win over Arizona<\/a><\/p>\n

Dodgers starter Dustin May<\/a> was good, dotting the corners of the strike zone with his wicked sinker-sweeper combination en route to a 6 \u2154 inning, two-run, five-strikeout outing \u2014 his longest since returning from a second career elbow surgery this year.<\/p>\n

His only two mistakes came on a couple first-pitch sinkers: One that Corbin Carroll hit for a leadoff triple in the third inning, leading to one run; and another that Eugenio Su\u00e1rez clobbered for a 455-foot homer in the sixth.<\/p>\n

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Burnes, however, was better the whole way, flashing the form that made him a Cy Young winner in 2021 with the Milwaukee Brewers and $210 million free-agent signing for the Diamondbacks (21-19) this winter.<\/p>\n

He erased a leadoff single in the first from Friday night\u2019s hero, Shohei Ohtani<\/a>, with an immediate double-play from Mookie Betts<\/a>. He stranded two runners on base in both the third and fourth innings, easily extinguishing the two best threats the Dodgers (26-14) generated against him. And he finished the day giving up just five hits and two walks (one of them was intentional) while striking out five.<\/p>\n

Read more: Dodgers continue \u2018to bet on\u2019 Michael Conforto, but can he break unthinkable early slump?<\/a><\/p>\n

Entering Saturday, some of the Dodgers\u2019 most impressive wins this season came against former Cy Young arms. During their 8-0 start to the season, they won against both of last year\u2019s winners, Tarik Skubal of the Detroit Tigers and Chris Sale of the Atlanta Braves. They knocked off Jacob deGrom and the Rangers in Texas last month, when their own Cy Young candidate, Yoshinobu Yamamoto<\/a>, outdueled deGrom in a low-scoring affair. In the last two weeks, they had battered Miami\u2019s Sandy Alcantara twice, beating up on the NL\u2019s 2023 winner as he works his way back from Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n

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Burnes, however, was on a different level Saturday, complementing his signature cutter with a mix of curveballs, changeups, sinkers and sliders to turn in his best performance in a Diamondbacks uniform.<\/p>\n

Between Burnes and Arizona reliever Ryne Nelson, the Dodgers forced Diamondbacks pitchers to make just 107 throws in what was their third game being shut out this season.<\/p>\n

While the loss ended the Dodgers\u2019 perfect record against Cy Young winners, it continued a more troubling trend for the team of late.<\/p>\n

Since that 8-0 start, the Dodgers have played 12 games against teams currently above .500. With Saturday\u2019s loss, they are now 3-9 in those contests, and will now need a win Sunday to avoid dropping a fourth-straight such series.<\/p>\n

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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dodgers were a perfect 5-0 this season when facing former Cy Young Award winners. On Saturday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,46,1146,5,919,97,1538,6259,53,38,39,126,92,403,778,59,4,1526,5938,468,382,1567,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-17526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","11":"tag-atlanta-braves","12":"tag-austin-barnes","13":"tag-baseball","14":"tag-chris-sale","15":"tag-corbin-burnes","16":"tag-corbin-carroll","17":"tag-cy-young","18":"tag-detroit-tigers","19":"tag-diamondbacks","20":"tag-dodgers","21":"tag-dustin-may","22":"tag-eugenio-suarez","23":"tag-jacob-degrom","24":"tag-miami","25":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","26":"tag-mlb","27":"tag-mookie-betts","28":"tag-ryne-nelson","29":"tag-shohei-ohtani","30":"tag-tarik-skubal","31":"tag-texas","32":"tag-yoshinobu-yamamoto"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114487001435743752","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}