After barely avoiding their first series sweep, the Dodgers are hoping Adrian Gonzalez and an unbeaten Zack Greinke can duplicate last weekend's performances against the slumping Diamondbacks.
The hot-hitting Gonzalez had a particularly spectacular showing in the Dodgers' sweep and will try to add to a 12-game hit streak while helping send Arizona to a seventh consecutive defeat Friday night.
Los Angeles (10-6) scored just five runs in its three games in San Francisco this week after outscoring the Diamondbacks 22-11 in a three-game sweep in Arizona. After a pair of one-run losses, the Dodgers kept the Giants at bay in a 2-1 victory Thursday.
Gonzalez extended his hit streak by driving in the second run on a fifth-inning single. The first baseman, who also doubled Thursday, is batting .340 with five homers, five doubles and 14 RBIs during his streak.
Miley dropped to 0-2 with a 7.20 ERA in two starts against the Dodgers this season by allowing season highs of five runs, eight hits and three walks in a season-low five innings.
Greinke (3-0, 2.76) was the opposing pitcher in Saturday's game and yielded just one run -- onA.J. Pollock's solo homer -- while striking out eight for the second straight game. It was his first start against Arizona this season.
Greinke is 3-0 with a 1.78 ERA in his last four starts versus the Diamondbacks, who are 0-5 against the Dodgers. Arizona (4-14) suffered the first two of those losses to its NL West rivals in March in Australia and are off to the worst start in franchise history.
The Mets trailed in only the opening inning of the series, and the Diamondbacks saw one of the worst ERAs in the majors rise to 6.02 by the end of the three-game set.
Goldschmidt is hitting .397 with six homers in his last 16 games at Dodger Stadium. He's batting .380 with nine homers in his last 34 overall matchups and is 4 for 12 with no home runs against Greinke the past two seasons.
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