Los Angeles sees another hit sequel

LOS ANGELES — Yasiel Puig had three hits and drove in two runs, Austin Barnes added a key two-run double and the Los Angeles Dodgers used another relentless offensive performance to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 8-5 on Saturday night for a 2-0 lead in their NL Division Series.

Logan Forsythe had three hits and Kenley Jansen earned a five-out save for the 104-win Dodgers, who have made their mediocre pitching irrelevant by pounding out 17 runs and 24 hits in the first two games against their NL West rival.

Paul Goldschmidt hit a tworun homer in the first inning and Brandon Drury added a pinch-hit, three-run shot in the seventh, but the Diamondbacks are on the brink of elimination after Robbie Ray and reliever Jimmie Sherfy couldn’t contain the Dodgers’ lineup.

Game 3 of the best-of-five matchup is Monday at Chase Field. Arizona ace Zack Greinke will face his former Dodgers teammates, who’ll start lateseason acquisition Yu Darvish.

“If you had to pick the one guy to stop the situation we’re in, we’ve got the right guy in Zack Greinke,” Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said.

L.A. turned an early 2-0 deficit in Game 2 into a 7-2 lead with a four-run rally in the fifth.

Forsythe got his first career playoff RBI during that stretch, and Barnes followed with his two-run double. Puig added an RBI single to his earlier runscoring groundout.