NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Eduardo Rodr\u00edguez outdueled Nolan McLean in a rematch of the World Baseball Classic final on Thursday night, leading the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 7-1 win over the New York Mets.<\/p>\n
Rodr\u00edguez threw his final pitch down 1-0 before the Diamondbacks scored four runs in the seventh off McLean (0-1) and Luke Weaver. Gabriel Moreno greeted Weaver with a pinch-hit RBI double before Jose Fernandez beat Mark Vientos\u2019 throw home on Alek Thomas\u2019 grounder to first.<\/p>\n
Tim Tawa hit a sacrifice fly and Jorge Barrosa followed with a run-scoring triple.<\/p>\n
Moreno and Adrian Del Castillo added RBI doubles in the eighth.<\/p>\n
Rodriguez (1-0) gave up five hits \u2014 including Luis Robert Jr.\u2019s first-inning homer, the first earned run allowed this season by the left-hander \u2014 and struck out three in six innings.<\/p>\n
McLean was charged with two runs on three hits and struck out eight in 6 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Rodriguez tossed four scoreless innings and McLean surrendered two runs in 4 2\/3 innings on March 17, when Venezuela won the WBC by edging Team USA, 3-2.<\/p>\n
Diamondbacks right fielder Corbin Carroll didn\u2019t play because of a sore left hip flexor suffered while running out a triple in Wednesday\u2019s 7-2 win.<\/p>\n
The temperature at McLean’s first pitch was 44 degrees. The first two games of the series were moved up three hours to 4:10 PM due to the cold.<\/p>\n
The Diamondbacks continue their nine-game east coast swing Friday, when RHP Michael Soroka (2-0, 0.90 ERA) starts against Jes\u00fas Luzardo (1-1, 4.97 ERA) and the Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n
RHP Clay Holmes (2-0, 1.42 ERA) starts for the Mets, who welcome RHP J.T. Ginn (0-0, 5.14 ERA) and the Athletics for a three-game series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Eduardo Rodr\u00edguez outdueled Nolan McLean in a rematch of the World Baseball Classic final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[25638,664,146,22,4314,5,1712,1538,38,85375,756,5993,1437,62568,369,107,228,5860,4,9500,9501,9496,9497,83120,22857,22858,22859,4622],"class_list":{"0":"post-672365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-adrian-del-castillo","9":"tag-alek-thomas","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","12":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","13":"tag-baseball","14":"tag-clay-holmes","15":"tag-corbin-carroll","16":"tag-diamondbacks","17":"tag-diamondbacks-mets-score","18":"tag-eduardo-rodriguez","19":"tag-gabriel-moreno","20":"tag-jorge-barrosa","21":"tag-jose-fernandez","22":"tag-luis-robert","23":"tag-luke-weaver","24":"tag-mark-vientos","25":"tag-mike-soroka","26":"tag-mlb","27":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","28":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","29":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","30":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","31":"tag-product-40774-ap-arizona-sports-only","32":"tag-product-40800-ap-new-jersey-sports-only","33":"tag-product-40802-ap-new-york-city-sports-only","34":"tag-product-40803-ap-new-york-state-sports-only","35":"tag-tim-tawa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672365","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=672365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}