Taylor, Urías propel streaking Dodgers past D-backs, 6-3

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris Taylor drove in a season-high four runs and Julio Urías pitched six innings of four-hit ball in the Los Angeles Dodgers' 6-3 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night.

After largely standing pat at the trade deadline while most of their fellow elite teams added talent, the major league-leading Dodgers (27-10) calmly kept rolling toward their eighth straight NL West title and another playoff appearance with their 16th win in 19 games.

Taylor, AJ Pollock and Max Muncy had two hits apiece as Los Angeles opened a six-game homestand with its third straight victory. And though they didn't homer in their September opener after setting an NL record with 57 long balls in August, the Dodgers still took the first step toward maintaining their season-long streak of never losing a series.

Carson Kelly homered again at Dodger Stadium, and Nick Ahmed added a two-out, two-run homer in the ninth for the last-place Diamondbacks, who have lost 11 of 12.

Kelly's homer was the only big hit off Urías (3-0), who got five strikeouts and allowed no walks to earn his first victory since Aug. 13.

After Scott Alexander faltered in the ninth, Kenley Jansen struck out Daulton Varsho for his 10th save in 11 chances. He also left Kelly in the on-deck circle at the stadium where he has hit four homers in the last two seasons.

Taylor broke out of a quiet stretch with an RBI double in the third inning and a two-run double in the sixth for the veteran’s first multi-RBI game since Aug. 1, when he hit a three-run homer in Phoenix.

Alex Young (1-2) yielded six hits and two earned runs over five innings in his fourth start of the season for Arizona.

While the Dodgers stayed the same, the Diamondbacks opened a seven-game trip following a flurry of trades triggered...

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