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\"Dodgers\u2019<\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES \u2014 They turned back the clock Friday night at Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t turn it back very far \u2013 just to the six-week stretch of July and August they thought they had put in the rear-view mirror with this week\u2019s four-game winning streak.<\/p>\n

But the offense reverted to its midseason malaise, managing just three hits while striking out 10 times in a 3-0 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks that ended that winning streak \u2013 during which they scored 26 runs and hit nine home runs.<\/p>\n

The second-place San Diego Padres also lost at Minnesota on Friday, so the Dodgers\u2019 lead in the National League West remains two games.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was the first one in a while, I think in a week, that we\u2019ve seen sort of a lackluster performance,\u201d Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if it was coming off the off day or what. But obviously you\u2019ve got to give credit to (Zac) Gallen, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was one of those nights that I just didn\u2019t see the at-bats that we\u2019ve been seeing the last week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Diamondbacks starter Zac Gallen became the third starting pitcher in the past seven games to drag a 5.00-plus ERA into a start against the Dodgers and dominate them for six innings. Yu Darvish (5.36) and Nestor Cortes (5.87) each held the Dodgers to one hit over six innings last weekend in San Diego.<\/p>\n

Gallen came into Friday\u2019s start with a 5.13 ERA over his first 27 starts this season for a Diamondbacks team that was supposed to ride its pitching into contention but held the Dodgers scoreless on two hits in six innings.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been a good pitcher for a long time. Tonight he was good,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cI think he was going with a lot of sinkers in on our guys. Changing speeds. We just obviously couldn\u2019t figure anything out tonight.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just really couldn\u2019t put anything together all night long. For me, I think we just got to wash this one and focus on Rodriguez tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Diamondbacks\u2019 starters the next two days \u2013 Eduardo Rodriguez (5.67) on Saturday and Brandon Pfaadt (5.13) on Sunday \u2013 also have ERA\u2019s over 5.00.<\/p>\n

But even in Gallen\u2019s good years, he has struggled against the Dodgers. Friday was his first win in eight career starts at Dodger Stadium and only his second in 15 career starts overall against the Dodgers.<\/p>\n

He walked the first batter in each of the first two innings Friday but got a double play to erase the first one and struck out the side following the walk in the second.<\/p>\n

Gallen didn\u2019t give up a hit until Shohei Ohtani\u2019s ground ball off the glove of first baseman Tyler Locklear with two outs in the third. The Dodgers didn\u2019t hit a ball out of the infield until Teoscar Hernandez flew out to end the fourth inning and didn\u2019t get a runner to second base until Mookie Betts\u2019 two-out double to left center in the sixth inning \u2013 their second and last hit off Gallen in his six innings. Will Smith flew out to the warning track in left field to strand Betts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he was using his fastball and hitting the corners. He put it in a spot that, basically, it\u2019s hard to make good contact. It\u2019s one of those days where he was pitching really good,\u201d Hernandez said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s always the kind of pitcher that uses his fastball a lot. Before, maybe he was missing in the middle of the plate and we were taking advantage of it. But today he was hitting the corners. It was really hard to get to a good pitch and put it in play.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Diamondbacks were hardly lighting up the scoreboard against Dodgers starter Blake Snell either.<\/p>\n

He also didn\u2019t give up a hit until the fourth inning. But that Lourdes Gurriel Jr. single was followed two batters later by a two-run home run from Blaze Alexander.<\/p>\n

\u201cBad pitch, down and in, just not a good pitch,\u201d Snell said.<\/p>\n

Both of those hits came on four-seam fastballs from Snell \u2013 92.1 mph to Gurriel, 93.4 mph to Alexander. Snell\u2019s fastball velocity was down in his first start back from paternity leave. He averaged 93.7 mph on his 26 four-seamers, down from a season average of 95.4 mph. None of his 15 swings-and-misses in 86 pitches came against his fastball.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a weird week for him just having the baby and kind of trying to readjust and the throwing schedule, the sleep schedule, all that stuff,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cHe just didn\u2019t have a whole lot in the tank tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Snell left the team after his start in San Diego last weekend for the birth of his second child. He didn\u2019t use the disruption as an excuse \u2013 nor did he mention being ill this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a busy week, man. A lot going on,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not worried about (the diminished velocity). I know what\u2019s going on. So it\u2019ll come back. I\u2019m zero worried about it. I mean, I was aware of it. But I\u2019m not gonna push it. It is what it is. It\u2019s what I had today. Just gotta be better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Corbin Carroll led off the sixth inning with a double and scored two batters later on an RBI single by Gabriel Moreno.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers\u2019 offense didn\u2019t stir from its slumber once Gallen gave way to the bullpen. They had just one hit over the final three innings \u2013 a two-out single by Andy Pages in the seventh inning.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the pitcher deserves the credit, you have to give it to him,\u201d Hernandez said. \u201cAnd it was one of those days.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dodgers manage just two hits in six innings against Diamondbacks starter Zac Gallen and three hits overall while being shut out, 3-0. 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