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D-backs’ Shipley beats Dodgers for first big league win
- Updated: July 31, 2016
LOS ANGELES — Braden Shipley, making only his second Major League start, blanked the Dodgers for six innings while Jean Segura homered and doubled in the D-backs’ 4-2 win over the Dodgers on Saturday night.
Shipley, a 2013 first-round Draft pick, scattered five hits and pitched around two-out doubles in the first, third and fifth innings for his first MLB win. The Dodgers scored off reliever Enrique Burgos in the seventh on Scott Van Slyke’s RBI single and Joc Pederson’s home run with two outs in the ninth off rookie Jake Barrett, who was credited with his third save.
Segura led off the game with a home run on an 0-2 pitch from Scott Kazmir (9-4), who was facing Arizona for the first time in 10 years and lost for the first time since May 9. Arizona scored twice in the third inning on doubles by Yasmany Tomas, Chris Owings and Segura. The D-backs scored an insurance run in the seventh inning after Segura was drilled on the left shoulder by Pedro Baez’s first pitch (97 mph), but he remained in the game.
MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDMaking strides: Shipley was far sharper in his second big league start than he was in his …
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