PHOENIX — Every time the Los Angeles Dodgers offense inched a small step forward Saturday night, their pitching staff quickly took a disastrous step back.
That was the story of the team’s 12-8 defeat to the Arizona Diamondbacks, in which the Dodgers squandered an early four-run lead and failed to capitalize on an eight-hit, five-walk display from their lineup.
Noah Syndergaard was the main culprit, yielding six runs in a four-inning outing derailed by two-out rallies and center-cut changeups. The bullpen wasn’t much better, combining for six earned runs of their own to extinguish any late-game comeback bid.
