Arizona Diamondbacks vs Los Angeles Dodgers Live Streaming
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
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It’s been three weeks since Los Angeles Dodgers starter John Ely beat the Arizona Diamondbacks for his first major league win. For the Diamondbacks, it’s been a long three weeks. Arizona will attempt to defeat Ely and avoid a ninth consecutive loss Tuesday night as it continues a three-game series at Dodger Stadium. After falling short of a win in his first two starts, Ely allowed two runs over six innings in Los Angeles’ 13-3 rout at Arizona on May 11. The rookie right-hander also won his following two starts and pitched well again Thursday at Chicago. He limited the Cubs to one run, four hits and two walks over 7 1-3 innings, but wound up on the wrong end of a 1-0 score. With a 2.18 ERA in his past five starts, Ely will try to bounce back by topping the Diamondbacks again. Unfortunately for the Diamondbacks, losing is becoming routine. Their current eight-game skid is their longest since dropping nine in a row Aug. 5-14, 2004, en route to a franchise-worst 51-111 finish.
Arizona has blown late leads in its last two losses, including suffered perhaps its most unusual loss of the current slump in Monday night’s series opener.Los Angeles scored twice to tie the game in the eighth inning after Kelly Johnson made a fielding and throwing error on an Andre Ethier grounder. In the ninth, reliever Esmerling Vasquez was called for a balk with two outs, allowing Casey Blake to score and give the Dodgers a 5-4 victory.The previous day, the Diamondbacks’ bullpen blew its 11th save in 21 opportunities when San Francisco scored twice in the ninth inning off Chad Qualls. Carlos Rosa gave up the deciding run in the 6-5 defeat an inning later. The Diamondbacks will turn to Dan Haren in their attempt to earn that much-needed victory, but the right-hander is coming off his roughest outing of the season.
