Geraldo Perdomo was determined he would not be intimidated by the Atlanta Braves’ five-run first inning.
“I just said to my teammates: ‘If they do it, we can do it back,’” Perdomo said.
He gave the Arizona Diamondbacks the lead with a two-run double in the ninth inning and they took advantage of Atlanta’s worst pitching effort of the season to beat the Braves 16-13 on Tuesday.
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It was Arizona’s first game in which each team had at least 13 runs and the first in the majors since the Chicago White Sox beat the Chicago Cubs 17-13 on Aug. 27, 2021.
Just as Perdomo predicted, the Diamondbacks answered Atlanta’s five-run first by scoring five in the second inning, when Taiwanese-American outfielder Corbin Carroll stole third base after striking out.
The high-scoring pace led to a football-like final score.
“Couple missed extra points,” Arizona manager Torey Lovullo joked.
“We kept coming back. They did, too. It was like a Coors Field game,” Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said.
The National League East-leading Braves have lost three straight. Arizona snapped a four-game losing streak.
“If you want to call it a cleansing, I guess you could,” Lovullo said.
Christian Walker homered twice and had three hits and five RBIs for Arizona. Carroll had two hits, scored three runs and drove in two.
In the second inning, Carroll struck out, but still made it to third base on a play that gave Arizona a 6-5 lead. After Ketel Marte’s two-run double to right field tied it at 5, Carroll struck out on a wild pitch from Bryce Elder that bounced in front of catcher Sean Murphy.
As Carroll sprinted to first base, Murphy threw past Matt Olson toward the right field corner for an error. As Marte scored, Carroll slid into third base. Walker added a run-scoring single, increasing the lead to two runs.
“That was crazy,” MLB.com quoted Carroll as saying. “I saw it kicked away a little bit. We talked about coming out this series aggressive and putting the pressure on another team and we did. That was just one example of that tonight.”
The teams were not alone in double-digit runs, as three games ended 11-10 on Tuesday for the first time, and 12 tied May 30, 1884, for the second-most with double-digit runs in one day, trailing only 13 on July 4, 1894, Elias Sports Bureau data showed.
The Cubs topped the scoring by routing the Washington Nationals 17-3, while the San Francisco Giants beat the Cincinnati Reds, the New York Mets pipped the White Sox and the Kansas City Royals edged the Detroit Tigers, all by 11-10.
Elias said that score had never before occurred three times on the same day.
Four games in which both teams scored double-digit runs matched the record of July 4, 1894, and July 9, 1898, the MLB said.
In more mundane 10-3 routs, the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Baltimore Orioles and the Minnesota Twins defeated the Seattle Mariners. The Cleveland Guardians topped the Pittsburgh Pirates 10-1.
The San Diego Padres fell just short, stranding a runner at second in the ninth inning of a 9-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays.
There were 15 games on Tuesday — the completion of a suspended Giants-Reds game counted as Monday in the records. San Francisco won that 4-2.
In Tuesday’s other games, the Texas Rangers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-3, while the Philadelphia Phillies and the Colorado Rockies had 4-3 victories over the Milwaukee Brewers and the Houston Astros respectively.
The St Louis Cardinals defeated the Miami Marlins 5-2 in 10 innings, the Oakland Athletics blanked the Boston Red Sox 3-0 and the Los Angeles Angels dominated the New York Yankees 5-1.
Additional reporting by staff writer
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