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D-Backs rout Dodgers for 6th straight win


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Randy Wolf (3-3) was charged with six runs, 10 hits and four walks over 5 2-3 innings in his 200th big league game. The left-hander was in 4-1 with a 3.50 ERA in his eight previous starts against Arizona.

Young drove Wolf’s second pitch of the game to right-center for his third homer. The Diamondbacks left five runners in scoring position over the next three innings before scoring three runs in the fifth.

Eric Byrnes ended a 1-for-18 drought with an RBI double into the left field corner that allowed Orlando Hudson to score easily from first. Chris Snyder singled home another run after Wolf walked .205-hitting Carlos Quentin with two outs. Quentin scored when center fielder Juan Pierre made a diving attempt on Webb’s short flyball and it popped out of his glove for an RBI single.

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Chad Tracy chased Wolf with a two-out RBI double in the sixth and Tony Clark greeted Rudy Seanez with an RBI single for a 6-0 lead.

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“I didn’t pitch well,” Wolf said. “I’ve just got to keep on grinding and getting better.”

Young tacked on another run, leading off the seventh with a first-pitch homer against Seanez. The right-hander was trying to eat up a few innings for a tired Dodger bullpen that allowed only one hit through the final 10 2-3 innings of Sunday’s 17-inning, 5-4 victory at San Diego.

Brett Tomko, who was scheduled to throw on the side Monday between starts, relieved in the eighth. He gave up Young’s RBI single and a bases-loaded walk to Hudson.

Notes: Young’s multi-homer game was the first of his career. He was the first Diamondbacks player to lead off the first inning with a home run since July 23 at Phoenix, when Jeff DaVanon connected on the first pitch from Colorado’s Byung-Hyun Kim. ... Hudson was 3-for-5 with a walk, and has reached base in all 27 games. He is batting .385 lifetime against Dodgers pitching (30-for-78). ... C Russell Martin, one of four Dodgers who played all 17 innings in Sunday (including Garciaparra, Pierre and Jeff Kent), was the only one who had the night off. Mike Lieberthal got his third start behind the plate.

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