Diamondbacks edge Orioles to end 3-game skid

Corbin Carroll hit his fourth homer, Josh Naylor had a tie-breaking two-run double and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Baltimore Orioles 4-3 in Phoenix to break a three-game losing streak Tuesday.

Carroll had two hits and scored twice and Merrill Kelly (2-1) gave up three runs and three hits in six-plus innings for the win. Carroll has reached base in all 12 Diamondbacks games this season.

Justin Martinez hit Tyler O'Neill with one out in the ninth but got Heston Kjerstad to ground into a double play for his second save.

The Diamondbacks have come from behind in five of their six victories this season.

Cedric Mullins had two hits, two RBIs and scored a run on a bizarre play in the seventh inning for the Orioles, who have lost five of seven.

The Diamondbacks led 4-2 when Mullins doubled to open the seventh inning and O'Neill walked off Kelly.

Kelly and Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo were ejected by first base umpire Laz Diaz during the pitching when Lovullo brought in Shelby Miller. The Diamondbacks argued that O'Neill had committed on a 3-1 check swing that was called a ball.

Miller hit Gary Sanchez with one out to load the bases before Jackson Holliday hit a liner to short left field that Lourdes Gurriel Jr. caught with a slide. Gurriel's throw toward home sailed to the backstop, enabling Mullins to score. O'Neill attempted to advance to third on the play but did not tag up and was called out on appeal.

The Orioles jumped on Kelly in the first inning, scoring two runs in five batters. Adley Rutschman walked, Ryan O'Hearn singled and Jordan Westburg was hit by a pitch before Mullins singled both in.

Kelly got O'Neill to ground into a double play to get out of the first, then retired the next 11 he faced until Holliday reached on an error in the fifth. Mullins' double to open the seventh was the only other hit Kelly allowed.

The Diamondbacks benefitted from Baltimore starter Charlie Morton's wildness in the first, when Morton hit leadoff hitter Carroll and walked the next two before Carroll scored on Naylor's double-play grounder.

Carroll homered in the third to tie it at 2-2, and Naylor's two-out, two-run double made it 4-2 in the fifth.

Morton (1-2) gave up four runs on four hits and five walks in five-plus innings. He struck out four.

--Field Level Media