Player of the gameEduardo RodriguezARI7.0ip 6h 1er 5k
One hit. As their offense has struggled for weeks now to put up crooked numbers, the Diamondbacks found ways to get runners on base. But getting that one hit to drive them in was where the trouble lied. "We just haven't gotten that slug," manager Torey Lovullo said. "That one big hit at the right moment." On Wednesday afternoon at Chase Field, though, Corbin Carroll delivered exactly that. His second-inning grand slam jump-started the offense in an 8-1 win over the Angels and a series victory. The eight runs were the most the Diamondbacks had scored in a game since a 9-1 win over the Rockies on May 24. The 11 hits marked the first time they reached double-digits in the category since June 9. Down 1-0 after Zach Neto led off the game with a homer, the Diamondbacks capitalized on a pair of walks and a hit batter to load the bases with two outs in the second when Carroll smoked a Sam Aldegheri changeup over the wall in right for his fifth career grand slam. "That was it," Lovullo said of what he'd been talking about. "I think the dugout felt an immediate sigh of relief, and it took the air out of some very tense moments and games over the past 12 to 14 days, and that's what we want guys to do. That was a key moment for this ball club. And more to come, I'm sure." The homer was fated when, in Carroll's nine-pitch first at-bat that resulted in a strikeout, Aldegheri threw him four changeups. "I had seen a few \[changeups\
