The Arizona Republic

Grienke takes 1st home loss of his season

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Yasiel Puig’s two-out single drove in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning and Los Angeles held on for a 3-2 win over the Diamondbac­ks Wednesday night, making the Dodgers the sixth team since 1913 to reach 80 wins in their first 113 games.

Puig’s hit was the third off Diamondbac­ks ace Zack Greinke in the seventh, after Greinke had allowed only one hit through six innings. Cody Bellinger homered, doubled and scored twice for the Dodgers.

Greinke (13-5) lost for the first time in 13 starts at home this season. He is 10-1 at Chase Field. He allowed three runs on four hits in 6 2-3 innings, but lost the lead by surrenderi­ng two runs in the seventh on Bellinger’s double, a two-out double for Joc Pederson and Puig’s single. Greinke struck out eight and walked four.

Dodgers starter Alex Wood pitched six innings for the win. Wood (14-1) allowed two runs on six hits with four strikeouts and a walk.

J.D. Martinez’s two-out single in the sixth off Wood gave the Diamondbac­ks a 2-1 lead, but it didn’t last long. Paul Goldschmid­t had homered high off the center field batter’s eye in the fourth to tie the game at 1.

Bellinger, a native of nearby Chandler, Arizona, connected for his 33rd home run of the season in the second inning. The ball sailed well into the rightfield seats above the Dodgers bullpen.

The Dodgers got strong relief from Josh Fields, who pitched two scoreless innings and got Goldschmid­t to ground into an inning-ending double play in the eighth. All-Star closer Kenley Jansen, who hadn’t pitched since Sunday in New York, closed out the game for his 29th save.

It Raines in Arizona

Recent Hall of Fame inductee Tim Raines threw out the ceremonial first pitch before Wednesday’s game, a strike down the middle.

Tuesday’s game

Jake Lamb hit his second career grand slam, his first off a left-hander, in the seventh inning and the Diamondbac­ks rallied to beat Los Angeles 6-3 on Tuesday night, only the eighth loss for the Dodgers in their last 52 games.

Lamb, who also had a solo home run in the sixth inning, was hitting .143 against left-handed pitchers this season when he hit Tony Watson’s 1-2 pitch off the right field foul pole to put Arizona up 6-3.

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