PHOENIX \u2014 Tony Gonsolin pitched five scoreless innings and\u00a0Freddie Freeman homered\u00a0on a 4-for-4 day to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to an 8-1 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Mookie Betts also went deep for the Dodgers, who had 18 hits and salvaged a four-game split with their National League West rivals. With San Diego\u2019s 9-3 loss at Colorado, Los Angeles regained the division lead by one game over the Padres.<\/p>\n
Gonsolin (2-0), making his third start after missing all of 2024 following Tommy John surgery, threw 84 pitches, walking two and striking out four. The right-hander lowered his ERA to 2.81, giving a boost to a Dodgers staff missing injured starters Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow.<\/p>\n
Freeman raised his NL-leading batting average to .376. He doubled in Mookie Betts in the first off Zac Gallen (3-5), doubled again in the third and hit a sacrifice fly in the fifth. He added his ninth homer, off Joe Mantiply, in the seventh, and singled against Jos\u00e9 Castillo in the ninth.<\/p>\n
Betts’ homer, his sixth, came off Castillo in the ninth.<\/p>\n
Gallen lasted 5 1\/3 innings, giving up 10 hits and four runs. He walked two and struck out five.<\/p>\n
Arizona’s Jos\u00e9 Herrera doubled off Ben Casparius in the seventh, scoring Alec Thomas from first.<\/p>\n
Key moment<\/p>\n
Will Smith\u2019s sharp single past Gallen in the fourth scored Betts to make it 3-0.<\/p>\n
Key stat<\/p>\n
Castillo committed three balks in two innings of relief. The major league record for a game is five by the Braves’ Bob Shaw in 1963.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
The Dodgers return home to face the Athletics. Landon Knack (2-0, 4.61 ERA) starts against Jeffrey Springs (4-3, 4.81) on Tuesday. The Diamondbacks play at San Francisco Monday, with Merrill Kelly (3-2, 4.09) facing Justin Verlander (0-2, 4.50).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 Tony Gonsolin pitched five scoreless innings and\u00a0Freddie Freeman homered\u00a0on a 4-for-4 day to lead the Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[563,556,146,22,4314,1769,5,2178,38,39,2296,7018,4,557,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-20181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-app-professional-sports","9":"tag-app-sports","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","12":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","13":"tag-associated-press","14":"tag-baseball","15":"tag-california","16":"tag-diamondbacks","17":"tag-dodgers","18":"tag-hawaii","19":"tag-los-angeles-app-region","20":"tag-mlb","21":"tag-professional-baseball","22":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114492864274217157","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20181","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=20181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}