Corbin Carroll on Saturday homered twice and had six RBIs, Yilber Diaz pitched six strong innings for his first big-league win and the Arizona Diamondbacks blasted the Toronto Blue Jays 12-1.
The Diamondbacks roughed up Jose Berrios (8-7) to win or split their fifth straight series, scoring five runs on seven hits in four innings against the right-hander. They did it a night after rallying from down 4-2 in the eighth inning to beat the Blue Jays 5-4.
“Some guys are obviously getting real hot,” Carroll said. “Guys are just doing their part and it’s been great.”
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Carroll is among the hottest.
The second-year player struggled early in the season, but has been rounding back into the form that earned him last season’s National League rookie of the year. He hit a sacrifice fly in the second inning, a three-run homer in the seventh and a two-run shot in the eighth to put Arizona up 12-1.
“He’s probably been waiting for a night like this,” Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said.
Eugenio Suarez also hit a two-run homer in the eighth — his third in four games — and the Diamondbacks had 15 hits to win for the 10th time in 14 games.
Diaz (1-0) was sharp all night, keeping the Blue Jays off-balance with a high-90s fastball and hard-breaking knuckle curve. He allowed a run on four hits with two strikeouts and two walks.
The Blue Jays have lost nine of 11.
Diaz had a solid big-league debut, allowing a run on four hits in six innings in a no-decision against Atlanta on Tuesday. The 23-year-old Venezuelan was sharp again and got the win this time.
Alejandro Kirk drove in a run in the second inning on a sacrifice fly, but that was it for Toronto against Diaz.
“He goes out there with great mound presence and executes pitch after pitch,” Lovullo said. “He doesn’t let up.”
Berrios faced traffic on the bases in every inning.
Joc Pederson hit a run-scoring double in the first inning and Arizona scored two more in the second, on the first of Jose Herrera’s three singles and Carroll’s sacrifice fly.
Ketel Marte hit a run-scoring single off Berrios in the fourth inning and Lourdes Gurriel Jr made it 5-1 on an infield hit with the bases loaded.
Berrios allowed at least four runs for the third straight start and three of the four batters he walked ended up scoring.
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