D-backs win in 10 for 12th straight

LOS ANGELES - Over the past couple of weeks, the Arizona Diamondbacks are playing as well as the Los Angeles Dodgers did for so long this season.

Brandon Drury hit a grounder to third base that scored the go-ahead runs when Justin Turner’s throw home got away, and the Diamondbacks won 3-1 on Tuesday night to match a franchise record with their 12th consecutive victory.

Arizona has built a comfortable cushion in the NL wild-card race, but still trails Los Angeles by 11½ games in their division. The slumping NL West leaders have dropped five in a row and 10 of 11.

“It seems like it’s timed up that we’re playing good when they’re going through a rough patch,” Diamondbacks starter Zack Greinke said of his old team. “I wouldn’t say it means too much.”

Dodgers reliever Pedro Baez (3-4) issued consecutive walks to open the 10th, drawing boos for the second night in a row after he gave up four straight hits that led to four runs in a 13-0 loss to Arizona on Monday.

Baez retired J.D. Martinez, who tied a major league record with four home runs Monday, on a broken-bat groundout that left runners at second and third. Martinez went 1 for 5 and scored a run.

Drury grounded to Turner just inside the third base line, and he fired home to catcher Yasmani Grandal. The ball ricocheted off pinch-runner Chris Hermann’s arm and then Grandal’s forearm before bouncing away. Hermann and A.J. Pollock scored, Drury was safe at second and Grandal was charged with an error.

“I don’t even know where the ball is after it hits him,” Grandal said. “There’s no time to react. You’ve got a runner coming straight at you and a ball being thrown very hard.”