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Eugenio Suarez hit two home runs and Randal Grichuk, Ketel Marte and Adrian Del Castillo also went deep as the Arizona Diamondbacks completed a two-game sweep against the Texas Rangers with a 14-4 victory on Wednesday in Phoenix.
Marte finished with three hits, including a double, and drove in four runs for Arizona (82-64), which won its third straight game and scored in every inning except for the third. Suarez finished 4-for-4 with two RBIs and four runs scored, and Grichuk had three RBIs.
The Diamondbacks recorded a season-high 12 extra-base hits and outhit the Rangers 16-9.
Marcus Semien homered for Texas (70-76), which lost for the third time in its past five games.
Diamondbacks starter Merrill Kelly allowed three runs on four hits with two walks and three strikeouts before exiting the game with an apparent injury with a runner on and no outs in the fifth inning.
Dylan Floro (6-4) pitched a scoreless sixth inning for the win. Jordan Montgomery tossed three scoreless innings for his first career save.
Arizona took a 3-0 lead in the first inning against Cody Bradford (5-3). Marte hit a leadoff double and scored on Corbin Carroll’s triple. Grichuk followed with a two-run homer to left field.
The Diamondbacks added two runs in the second inning on Suarez’s leadoff homer and Marte’s one-out RBI single.
Semien put the Rangers on the board with his 20th homer, a two-out solo blast in the third inning to make it 5-1.
Texas cut the deficit to 5-2 on Nathaniel Lowe’s run-scoring single in the fourth, but the Diamondbacks answered with Marte’s three-run homer in the bottom half of the inning.
Bradford allowed eight runs on nine hits over 3 2/3 innings. He struck out four with zero walks.
The Rangers stayed within striking distance with two runs in the fifth. Semien singled in a run against Slade Cecconi and Adolis Garcia added a run-scoring double to make it 8-4.
Del Castillo hit a three-run home run against Chase Anderson to put Arizona ahead 11-4 in the bottom of the fifth. The Diamondbacks added to their lead in the sixth inning on Christian Walker’s RBI double.
Suarez hit a solo homer in the seventh inning for his 28th long ball of the season. Arizona tacked on another run in the eighth inning on Grichuk’s RBI double.
–Field Level Media
