Diamondbacks smash 4 home runs, bullpen excels in win over Brewers

Arizona Diamondbacks hitters Adrian Del Castillo, Nolan Arenado, Ketel Marte and Corbin Carroll each hit a home run in the club’s 6-2 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday night.

The bullpen played an equally vital role in evening the road series with 4.1 scoreless innings, retiring the final 13 batters of the game.

Arenado hit the go-ahead, three-run home run in the fourth inning, while Marte and Carroll went back-to-back to stamp the victory in the ninth.

It felt like the two power hitters took out any frustration from recent ruts on the baseball.

Marte snapped a 10-game homerless streak with a 409-foot no-doubter. He flipped his bat after a near-miss earlier in the game. Carroll, who struck out three times on Wednesday, got all of a Grant Anderson changeup and sent it 430 feet.

Arenado, who snapped a five-game hitting streak on Tuesday, went down and crushed a sinker from Brewers starter Brandon Sproat 411 feet for his fifth home run of the year. The veteran is batting .432 over his last 11 games.

Arizona finished with 11 hits, while Geraldo Perdomo walked three times in his return from an ankle sprain.

On the mound, Kevin Ginkel, Juan Morillo, Taylor Clarke and Paul Sewald handled the Brewers in relief. The quartet allowed one hit combined and struck out six with no walks.

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Did Ildemaro Vargas extend his hitting streak?

Ildemaro Vargas singled in his first at-bat on Wednesday to extend his hitting streak to 22 games to start this season and 25 games dating back to 2025. He passed Tony Womack for the third-longest hit streak in franchise history and is one away from tying Paul Goldschmidt’s 26 games from 2013-14.

Vargas finished 2-for-5 on Wednesday.

Diamondbacks starters not going deep into games

D-backs starter Eduardo Rodriguez was in damage control mode throughout the game, holding the Brewers to two runs but only getting through 4.2 frames. Manager Torey Lovullo pulled Rodriguez after his fourth walk.

Rodriguez allowed five hits, so he dealt with plenty of traffic, but four strikeouts helped him keep the game in hand.

The Diamondbacks have not received much length from their starters recently. Here are their last nine starts, starting on Wednesday and working backward:

• Rodriguez: 4.2 IP
• Merrill Kelly: 5 IP
• Ryne Nelson: 5 IP
• Zac Gallen: 3 IP (injury)
• Michael Soroka: 5 IP
• Rodriguez: 5 IP
• Kelly: 4.1 IP
• Nelson: 0.1 IP

The last D-backs starter to get through six innings was Soroka on April 17 (seven innings).

Finale in Milwaukee

The series concludes with a rubber match on Thursday at 10:40 a.m. MST.

The D-backs’ next four games will start in the morning, as they play three straight at 11:20 a.m. MST at Wrigley Field against the Chicago Cubs from Friday through Sunday.

Michael Soroka will pitch for Arizona on Thursday, while Milwaukee will start veteran right-hander Brandon Woodruff.

The game will air on 98.7 and the Arizona Sports app. 

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