Toronto Blue Jays at Arizona Diamondbacks

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Toronto Blue Jays

44-51, 23-27 Away

Final
4 - 5

Arizona Diamondbacks

48-47, 25-23 Home

Geraldo Perdomo drives in run with sac fly in 9th to lift the Diamondbacks past the Blue Jays, 5-4

The Diamondbacks jumped above .500 for the first time since a win on April 3, improving to 48-47. Arizona had lost five straight times prior to Friday when it had a chance to push to a winning record.

“It's foot-on-the-gas time,” pitcher Ryne Nelson said. “Let's see how far out in front of .500 we can get. I think this team — we can get on a roll and start playing really well.”

The Blue Jays have lost eight of 10.

Arizona trailed 4-2 in the eighth before a two-out, two-run single by Alek Thomas that scored Perdomo and Eugenio Suarez. Both reached via a walk against reliever Trevor Richards and both advanced a base on a wild pitch.

Carroll started the ninth with a walk off Chad Green (2-2). Gabriel Moreno then struck out before Ketel Marte got another free pass. Carroll and Marte executed a perfect double steal and Christian Walker was intentionally walked to load the bases.

Perdomo lofted a fly ball down the left-field line that was caught by Daulton Varsho, but easily scored Carroll, who is one of the fastest players in the big leagues.

“It wasn't my best swing, but I'm glad that Corbin was on third base," Perdomo said, grinning. "Thank god.”

Varsho said he thought about letting Perdomo's fly ball drop considering it was close to foul territory, but couldn't take the risk after it drifted toward the line.

“That fly ball is spinning in my head right now,” Varsho said. “Because in a dome, there's no wind, that ball should never have come back that far. I was planning on letting it drop foul and then, hopefully, Chad can get a strikeout. But it came back so far, came back fair, and I was just kind of dumbfounded.”

Richards and Green combined to walk five batters over the final two innings, including four unintentionally.

Carroll's RBI single in the third gave the D-backs a 1-0 lead. Arizona threatened to get more after loading the bases with two outs, but Yariel Rodriguez froze Perdomo with a full-count breaking ball to get out of the jam.

The Diamondbacks extended their advantage to 2-0 in the fourth on Kevin Newman's sacrifice fly.

Toronto would rally to tie, scoring one run in both the fifth and sixth innings. Kevin Kiermaier had an RBI groundout and Spencer Horwitz added a sac fly.

The Blue Jays pushed ahead 3-2 in the seventh when Ernie Clement's sac fly brought home Varsho, who led off the inning with a triple into the right-center gap. Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s sac fly in the eighth made it 4-2.

Varsho returned to Chase Field for the first time since the Diamondbacks traded him to the Blue Jays for Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and Moreno following the 2022 season.

Nelson gave up three runs on five hits over seven innings. He struck out five. Justin Martinez (4-1) worked a scoreless ninth for the victory.

Toronto's Rodriguez gave up two runs on four hits and three walks over four innings, striking out seven.

Perdomo had a standout defensive play in the second inning, diving to catch Alejandro Kirk's grounder before sitting up and flinging the ball to first for the second out.

TRAINER'S ROOM

Diamondbacks: Manager Torey Lovullo said Gurriel was held out of the lineup because of left shoulder soreness.

The D-backs will start RHP Yilber Diaz (0-0, 1.50 ERA) on Saturday. The Blue Jays counter with RHP José Berríos (8-6, 3.76 ERA)

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Matchup Prediction

Diamondbacks: 55.2%

Blue Jays: 44.8%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Perdomo hit sacrifice fly to left, Carroll scored.
	9th Inning	Walker intentionally walked.
	9th Inning	Marte stole second, Carroll stole third.
	9th Inning	Marte walked, Carroll to second.
	9th Inning	Moreno struck out looking.
	9th Inning	Carroll walked.

Statistics

TOR		ARI
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
13	Ground Balls	8
6	Strikeouts	12
4	Runs Batted In	5
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
8	Hits	6
0	Stolen Bases	3
0	Walks	9
0	Catcher Interference	0
4	Runs	5
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
3	Sacrifice Flies	2
31	At Bats	30
0	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
6	Runners Left On Base	15
2	Triples	1
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	1
1	Doubles	1
15	Fly Balls	12
0	Caught Stealing	0
123	Pitches	167
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
13	Total Bases	9
34	Plate Appearances	41
0.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
3	Extra Base Hits	2
3.1	Runs Created	5.2
.258	Batting Average	.200
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.419	Slugging Percentage	.300
.161	Secondary Average	.500
.235	On Base Percentage	.366
.655	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.666
0.9	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.7
3.1	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	5.4
31.0	Batter Rating	33.5
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.62	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.07
.161	Isolated Power	.100
0.00	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.75
.000	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.220
-.097	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.300
8.0	Runs Produced	10.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.3
81.5	MLB Rating	78.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0