Godley, Peralta lead Diamondbacks past Mariners, 8

Nervous at the start, Jake Lamb coolly helped deliver a winning finish to his first major league game back in his hometown.

Goldschmidt continued his stellar season with his 22nd home run in the first inning off Seattle starter Mike Montgomery. It was his 32nd career homer of at least 440 feet, but all it did was cut Arizona’s lead to four runs. He threw a season high 116 pitches with 70 finding the strike zone. Cruz went 7-for-12 as Seattle took two of three from the Toronto Blue Jays over the weekend and is 12-for-26 with four homers over his last six games. Ray struck out the next three hitters, all swinging.

Embattled reliever Fernando Rodney was called on to pitch in the sixth, and worked 1 1/3 scoreless innings.

Diamondbacks second. A. Hill grounded out, shortstop B.Miller to first baseman Morrison.

Staked to a big lead, Kyle Kendrick (4-11) yielded six runs in five shaky innings for his first win since June 23.

Carson Smith came in for the Mariners to start the 10th. Smitty’s is usually unhittable, especially when he has the wipeout slider working. Montgomery stopped the bleeding by retiring the next two batters. Mike Zunino, who is awful against all things, got a base hit to tie the game. Ray was in control and in command all night, and the M’s offense could never really get it going. “The two home runs were hit pretty far, but those were up in the zone”.

Randall Delgado rolled through a one-two-three eighth with two strikeouts. Andrew Chafin pitched a scoreless 10 for the Dbacks, and was given the save for it. Trumbo doubled to center.

The Mariners had just pulled even on Mike Zunino’s two-out RBI single in the ninth when Smith put the go-ahead run on base with a leadoff walk in the 10th inning to Paul Goldschmidt.

Robinson Cano is riding a seven-game hitting streak (11-for-29) since moving into the cleanup spot for the Mariners. And in the ninth inning with the M’s down one, this offense showed a few fight as they have for the past week or so. Cano walked on a full count. But, Mark Trumbo followed that up with a double, and LoMo walked.

Despaigne (4-7) gave up a run and two hits with two walks and struck out three.

Same two teams tomorrow, if you’re into that.

Robbie Ray has been the best Diamondbacks starting pitcher this year. Welington Castillo followed with another solo shot in the 2nd to make it 2-0.

“I definitely feel more confident now”. Peralta drove in Pollock with an RBI single. First pitch is scheduled for 7:10 pm from the corner of Edgar & Dave.

1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on.

As said by Mariners beat writer Ryan Divish, it’s unlikely Hultzen will pitch again during the regular season after the 25-year-old left-hander went 0-1 with a 3.38 ERA in three starts for Double-A Jackson before a exhausted shoulder sidelined him in May.