Rookie sensation Corbin Carroll is among the National League’s leaders in homers, triples and stolen bases.
If there was a category for being a big ol’ pain in the rear end on the basepaths, he would be right near the top of that leaderboard as well.
Taiwanese-American Carroll started an eighth-inning rally with some distracting base running, Dominic Canzone brought his fellow rookie home with a single for the go-ahead run and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Seattle Mariners 4-3 on Saturday night.
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Carroll started the decisive rally in the eighth with a walk off reliever Andres Munoz. The All-Star then advanced to second on a balk by Munoz (2-4) and stole third against the flat-footed Mariners infield a few pitches later.
Seattle pulled its infield in with one out before Canzone delivered a chopper that bounced through to break the three-all tie.
“It’s just a classic case of being prepped and being ready,” Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said about Carroll’s aggressive baserunning. “He’s capable of doing that against any pitcher at any time. It was the difference in the game.”
Carroll has 32 stolen bases and 21 homers this season, consistently causing problems for opposing teams with his power-speed combo. Canzone had two RBI singles, coming through with his clutch hit in the eighth in just his 14th big league game.
“I was just trying to hit anything hard and maybe get a little lucky, and I did get a little lucky,” Canzone said.
It was a much-needed win for Arizona, who are still just 7-15 this month.
The Mariners had their three-game winning streak snapped. Seattle was trying to jump to four games above .500 this season, but could not get it done after going 0 for 11 at the plate with runners in scoring position.
Seattle had a great chance to score in the ninth after a one-out triple by Cade Marlowe, but Jose Caballero whiffed for the second out. J.P. Crawford then walked before Scott McGough struck out All-Star Julio Rodriguez to end the game.
“We’ve been having quality at-bats the past few days,” Crawford said. “Today, we just couldn’t get them in. It was just one of those days.”
Seattle scored twice on sacrifice flies before Tom Murphy’s solo homer to left made it 3-0 in the fourth. Murphy has been on a recent tear, with extra-base hits in four straight games. He also has seven homers in his past 20 games.
But the D-backs quickly clawed back, scoring two runs in the fourth and then tying the game in the fifth on Carson Kelly’s RBI single.
“You’ve got to figure out a way to win these games,” Mariners manager Scott Servais said. “We were right in there, doing a lot of good things offensively. Just the big hit late — we weren’t able to do it tonight.”
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