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Offense, Jansen step up after bullpen falters
- Updated: July 30, 2016
LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers didn’t need Jay Bruce or Wade Davis or Chris Archer to beat the D-backs on Friday night.
With trade rumors swirling, the current roster got it done in a wild 9-7 win, answering Arizona’s seven-run top of the seventh inning with five runs in the bottom of the 73-minute inning to slice San Francisco’s lead to one game.
After well-placed Arizona bloopers led to a Dodgers bullpen collapse in the seventh, Joc Pederson and Chase Utley slugged two-run homers to tie the game and Yasmani Grandal’s two-out RBI single defeated a defensive shift and put the Dodgers ahead, cashing in a Corey Seager double. Seager doubled again in the eighth for an insurance run and finished 3-for-5.
“I didn’t want to let my team down,” said Grandal. “They were giving me the hit up the middle, I just said, get a ground ball up the middle, that should be fine. I was able to get the base hit.”
Manager Dave Roberts, whose club has gone 25-13 since June 17, called it the best win …
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