PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Diamondbacks emerged from the All-Star break the same way they went into it — with a loss.
Patrick Corbin lasted only four innings and the Los Angeles Dodgers pounded Arizona pitching for a season-high 18 hits in their 13-7 victory Friday night.
The Diamondbacks lost their fifth straight and 13th in the last 15 games.
Chris Taylor, acquired by Los Angeles in a trade with Seattle a month ago, fell a single shy of the cycle, and Bud Norris finally beat Arizona.
Taylor, a utility infielder recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma City on June 25, tripled in the fourth, doubled in the fifth and hit a grand slam in the sixth, his first career home run. He was thrown out on a bunt in the eighth.
Norris (5-7) entered 0-7 with a 13.92 ERA against the Diamondbacks but ended the drought with the help of the Dodgers' offensive outburst. The right-hander went five innings, allowing five runs, four earned, and eight hits.
"It's a tough place to pitch," he said. "I personally have struggled here a few times, so I just wanted to go as deep as I could, kind of just leave all my pitches out there."
Corbin (4-8) gave up seven runs, six earned, and seven hits. He struck out seven but walked three.
"It is just frustrating," he said. "It is not the way I liked it to turn out. I just have to move past it and get better."
Corbin said his biggest problem is not getting ahead of hitters "like I have in the past."
"It is leading to walks and hitters' counts," he said. "It is something I need to get better on."
The Diamondbacks took a 3-2 lead with three runs in the third, two on Michael Bourn's triple, but as has been the case so often this season, gave it up in the very next inning.
"It is very tough mentally," Arizona manager Chip Hale said. "It is one of the things we talked about over the break and talked to the players about today and yesterday. I thought we did a nice job of continuing to play. Our guys battled."
The Dodgers scored five in the fourth, with two scoring on Taylor's triple. Yasiel Puig singled in two more before being thrown out trying to stretch it into a double.
Los Angeles loaded the bases with no outs in the sixth. Silvino Bracho struck out the next two, but Taylor hit one into the seats beyond left field and the Dodgers led 12-4.
In the eighth, needing only a single, Taylor chose to lay down a bunt and was thrown out by the pitcher.
"I thought it was a good time, the situation," he said. "They had the third baseman back and it's always been a part of my game, regardless of the hits (I had). I think you put me in that situation again I'm still going to try it. It's something I take pride in."
Third baseman Jake Lamb's two errors in the third led to an unearned Los Angeles run.
The Diamondbacks fell to 15-33 at home.
KERSHAW CLOSER
Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw is inching closer to a return.
Kershaw, sidelined since June 27 with a mild disk herniation, will throw a simulated game in Los Angeles on Saturday. Manager Dave Roberts said Kershaw will throw 60 pitches.
Before he was hurt, Kershaw, as usual, was one of the game's best pitchers, going 11-2 with a 1.79 ERA.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Dodgers: Roberts said a bone scan Friday of OF Andre Ethier's right tibia showed the fracture "has not completely healed but it's healed enough that Andre, to his tolerance, can continue to progress with baseball activity." Roberts said the Dodgers will "ramp him up and see where it takes us." ... LHP Alex Wood (posterior elbow) will pitch in the same simulated game as Kershaw.
Diamondbacks: RHP Zack Greinke (strained oblique) played catch Thursday night, the first time he's done so since the injury.
UP NEXT
Dodgers: RHP Brandon McCarthy (2-0, 2.70 ERA) makes his third start since coming back from Tommy John surgery, facing his former team for the first time.
Diamondbacks: RHP Archie Bradley (3-5, 4.64), coming off a strong but losing effort against San Francisco, makes the start for Arizona in the second game of the three-game series. Since being recalled from Triple-A Reno on May 29, Bradley ranks fourth in the NL in strikeouts.
