Justin Turner hits go-ahead HR, Dodgers top Diamondbacks 8-3

PHOENIX (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers were the talk of baseball this weekend after adding three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer and All-Star Trea Turner in a blockbuster deal at the trade deadline.

Turns out some of the guys already on the roster are pretty good, too.

Justin Turner hit a go-ahead, two-run homer, Albert Pujols had a pair of RBI singles and the Dodgers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 8-3 on Saturday night.

The game was tied at 3 in the seventh when Turner squared up a pitch from reliever Stefan Crichton that easily sailed over the left field wall and into the Diamondbacks bullpen. The Dodgers tacked on two more runs in the inning, including one on a pinch-hit, RBI single from Albert Pujols to take a 7-3 lead.

“He’s got a good sinker and I was looking for something up in the zone,” Turner said about the homer. “He got it up and in and I was able to keep it fair.”

It was Turner's 19th homer of the season. The 41-year-old Pujols has 3,289 hits, four shy of Willie Mays for 12th in MLB history.

The Dodgers built an early 3-0 lead with a two-out rally in the second. Chris Taylor and Max Muncy hit back-to-back RBI singles and then the two pulled off a double steal. D-backs catcher Carson Kelly's throw to second to catch Muncy was way off the bag, which allowed Taylor to trot home easily.

The D-backs started a comeback in the fourth when Kole Calhoun's two-run homer to right made it 3-2. Nick Ahmed smacked a solo shot into the left-field seats in the fifth to tie the game.

D-backs starter Merrill Kelly (7-8) pitched into the seventh but was pulled after walking Muncy with one out in the seventh despite throwing only 88 pitches. Turner promptly crushed the no-doubt homer on Crichton's second pitch and the Dodgers were up 5-3.

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