Major League Baseball
Arizona 10, Atlanta 3
When: 3:40 PM ET, Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Where: Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Larry Vanover, 1B - David Rackley, 2B - Alfonso Marquez, 3B - Chad Whitson
Attendance: 25836

PHOENIX -- On a day J.D. Martinez hit two balls over the wall, the Arizona Diamondbacks' most important production came on two long drives that didn't quite get out of the park.

Ketel Marte's two-run, inside-the-park homer followed Daniel Descalso's two-run triple in a breakout third inning and the Diamondbacks roughed up spot starter Aaron Blair in a 10-3 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Wednesday.

"They say the triple and the inside-the-park homer are the two plays that never really come up, so I think it gave us a little bit of a boost," Arizona manager Torey Lovullo said.

Arizona built a 5-1 lead by the third, then added on with a pair of Martinez two-run homers, his second and third since being dealt last week by Detroit. Martinez followed Paul Goldschmidt's double by homering into the left-center seats in the fourth, then hit a drive deep into the right-field seats in the eighth for his 19th overall.

"Whether it's double, triple, homer, single, walk -- any way we can get to the next guy, that's what we're trying to do," Descalso said of the Diamondbacks' widely varied offense.

Patrick Corbin (8-9) stranded 10 runners -- nine in the first four innings -- while lasting six innings in his second win in as many starts after losing three in a row. The left-hander is 4-0 in seven career appearances against Atlanta.

Corbin came into the game with an 0.59 ERA against the Braves -- the best in history for a pitcher making at least four starts against them. That number climbed to 0.98 as he gave up two runs and seven hits, struck out five and walked four.

Lovullo sat down regulars David Peralta, Brandon Drury and Chris Owings as the teams played a day contest following a night game, but the Diamondbacks didn't suffer offensively as they had seven extra-base hits among their 12 hits.

"It's one of those days we've been looking for for a while," Lovullo said.

Goldschmidt doubled twice, walked three times and scored three runs and Marte added a double as Arizona won for only the sixth time in 18 games.

With the score tied at 1 in the third, Blair -- the No. 36 pick in the June 2013 draft by Arizona -- quickly got into trouble by walking Jake Lamb and Goldschmidt. Descalso followed with a long fly ball that turned around center fielder Ender Inciarte, who couldn't make the catch as Lamb and Goldschmidt scored and Descalso ended up on third with a triple.

"I was just trying to hit the ball hard and drive in the run, and it got over his head ... he kind of deked me," Descalso said.

Marte followed with a drive that Sean Rodriguez couldn't catch as he ran into a notch in the right field corner, allowing the ball to ricochet wildly into foul territory and back toward the infield. Marte scored standing up with his third homer of the season and the 14th inside-the-park homer in franchise history.

"I knew I could run and when I got to second base, I saw the third base coach (Tony Perezchica) and he sent me home and I got an inside the park," Marte said. "It was a long run, but I'll take it. I was kind of tired, but we needed it."

Blair, making his first start since striking out 10 in six innings in beating Detroit 5-3 on Oct. 1, left trailing 5-1 after three innings, giving up five runs and five hits and walking five.

"It all comes down to making pitches," Blair said. "Five free passes in the first three innings, that's not going to help you at all."

Manager Brian Snitker didn't think it was all bad, but there also wasn't much good for the Braves offensively, defensively or pitching-wise.

"(He had) trouble making some pitches, and it kind of got away from him a hurry," Snitker said. "We walked way too many guys, and they're too dangerous to do that."

Blair also didn't get much help from an Atlanta offense that stranded nine runners in the first four innings.

Freddie Freeman doubled in a run in the Atlanta first, and Brandon Phillips had a sacrifice fly in a fourth inning in which Corbin left the bases loaded by retiring Matt Kemp and Tyler Flowers in succession.

NOTES: All three players Atlanta acquired from Arizona in the much-debated Shelby Miller trade in December 2015 were in the lineup: CF Ender Inciarte, SS Dansby Swanson and RHP Aaron Blair. ... The Braves returned RHP Matt Wisler to Triple-A Gwinnett to make a roster spot for Blair, who made his first start of the season Wednesday. ... The Diamondbacks optioned RHP J.J. Hoover to Triple-A Reno after he gave up four runs, three earned, in one-third of an inning Tuesday. ... Arizona RHP Rubby De La Rosa, out since July 6 with shoulder inflammation, was reinstated from the 10-day disabled list and pitched the ninth inning. ... Atlanta still hasn't won a series in Chase Field since 2012. ... The Braves are 3-4 on a season-long 11-game road trip that finishes up with four games in Philadelphia.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Atlanta   Arizona
Aaron Blair Player Patrick Corbin
Loss W/L Win
3.0 IP 6.0
3 Strikeouts 5
5 Hits 7
15.00 ERA 3.00
Hitting
Atlanta   Arizona
Tyler Flowers Player Paul Goldschmidt
2 Hits 2
0 RBI 0
0 HR 0
3 TB 4
.500 Avg 1.000
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Atlanta 11 0 14 .306 22 7 3 4 0 0
Arizona 12 3 27 .353 19 8 10 9 2 0