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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – MAY 26: Nolan Arenado #28 of the Arizona Diamondbacks celebrates after scoring off a ground out by Ildemaro Vargas #6 in the top of the second inning against the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park on May 26, 2026 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Lachlan Cunningham\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
The Arizona Diamondbacks secured a dominant 10-4 victory over the San Diego Padres<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n Ahead of Thursday night\u2019s series finale, manager Torey Lovullo made several notable lineup changes after both Ketel Marte and Nolan Arenado sat out Game 3 of the series.<\/p>\n Diamondbacks Announce Arenado Change<\/p>\n After receiving a day off, Arenado returns to the lineup for the series finale, starting at third base and batting sixth.<\/p>\n Marte also returns to the starting nine and will start at second base while hitting cleanup.<\/p>\n Other notable tweaks from Lovullo include moving Geraldo Perdomo into the leadoff spot, dropping Lars Nootbaar lower in the lineup while shifting him from the outfield to designated hitter, and inserting Max Kepler into the starting lineup after he didn\u2019t start Wednesday.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the full Diamondbacks lineup:<\/p>\n D-backs 8\/6<\/p>\n G. Perdomo SS K. Drake SP<\/p>\n \u2014 Underdog MLB (@UnderdogMLB) August 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Arenado\u2019s 2026 Season<\/p>\n Arenado is in his 14th MLB<\/a> season but his first with the Diamondbacks, and the eight-time All-Star continues to produce at a high level.<\/p>\n Through 108 games and 369 at-bats, Arenado is batting .244 with 53 runs, 90 hits, 16 home runs and 53 RBIs while slugging .428 and posting a .754 OPS.<\/p>\n Diamondbacks Right Now<\/p>\n Arizona enters Thursday with a 61-54 record, sitting second in the NL West, 8.0 games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Diamondbacks have won six of their last eight games, and if the season ended today, they would hold the second National League Wild Card spot. That would set up a best-of-three Wild Card Series against the Chicago Cubs<\/a> at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n The Philadelphia Phillies<\/a>, who currently hold the third and final Wild Card spot, are tied with Arizona in the standings. Both teams lead the San Diego Padres by 2.0 games as they battle for the final two playoff spots.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tCole Sullivan<\/a> Cole Sullivan is a sports journalist for Heavy.com covering the NFL, NBA, college football, and college basketball. A member of the United States Basketball Writers Association, he has written for FanSided, Athlon Sports, The Sporting News, and Newsweek. Sullivan earned an Associate degree from Franklin Pierce University and a Bachelor’s degree from Lynn University, where he studied Communications and Media Studies with a focus on Sports Journalism. More about Cole Sullivan<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tMore Heavy on Diamondbacks\n\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tLoading more stories\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – MAY 26: Nolan Arenado #28 of the Arizona Diamondbacks celebrates after scoring off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,38,4],"class_list":["post-771929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizonadiamondbacks","tag-baseball","tag-diamondbacks","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117051230005876172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771929","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=771929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
C. Carroll RF
G. Moreno C
K. Marte 2B
L. Nootbaar DH
N. Arenado 3B
M. Kepler LF
T. Tawa 1B
R. Waldschmidt CF<\/p>\n