Tony Gonsolin might have the best overall numbers of any Los Angeles Dodgers starter this season, yet he still will have to follow one of the best outings in the major leagues when he takes the mound Tuesday.

After the Dodgers’ Walker Buehler pitched the first shutout in the majors Monday, throwing the most pitches of anybody in a 2022 outing (108), Gonsolin will have his work cut out for him if he wants to top it. He pitches in the middle game of a three-game series against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Phoenix.

Gonsolin (1-0, 0.69 ERA) most recent fired six scoreless innings against the World Series champion Atlanta Braves on Wednesday, when he gave up just one hit and none over the first five innings. He has surrendered just one run over his three starts and none since his first inning of the season on April 9.

“Getting that weak contact earlier in the count was definitely effective,” said Gonsolin, who leaned on his slider and recorded 10 ground-ball outs. Buehler’s 10-strikeout outing was keyed by his curveball.

Gonsolin’s early exploits have helped the Dodgers post a major-league-leading 2.08 ERA. In nine career appearances (eight starts) against Arizona, Gonsolin is 2-2 with a 3.62 ERA.

Cody Bellinger has been powering the Dodgers’ potent offense. He was just named National League Player of the Week after going 7-for-23 (.304) with three home runs and a 1.174 OPS in a six-game stretch.

“I’m just coming in every day and focusing on what’s important, just trying to be consistent and stay healthy,” said Bellinger, who dealt with shoulder and leg injuries last season that limited him to 10 home runs, 36 RBIs and a .542 OPS. “Those are the two most important things.”

While the Diamondbacks haven’t been hitting or playing defense all that well, they at least have been getting some pitching. Arizona’s starting staff has with an impressive 2.53 ERA that ranks third in the majors behind the Dodgers (2.09) and the New York Mets (2.29).

Right-hander Zach Davies (1-1, 5.02) will take the mound for Arizona on Tuesday with a load of confidence. He is 4-3 in nine career starts against the Dodgers with a 2.11 ERA.

Davies earned his first victory of the season Thursday when he gave up two runs on two hits over five innings against the Washington Nationals.

Arizona made a number of roster moves before Monday’s game, reinstating outfielder Jordan Luplow from the 10-day injured list while also recalling left-hander Tyler Gilbert from Triple-A Reno. The club also designated 40-year-old left-hander Oliver Perez for assignment and optioned outfielder Jake McCarthy to Reno.

“(Luplow) is going to play right and center,” Arizona manager Torey Lovullo said. “I’m really anxious to get him in there and allow him to go out and perform.”

Luplow flied out as a pinch hitter in the eighth inning Monday, while Gilbert gave up one run on two hits over three innings with three strikeouts.

Arizona has one of the worst offenses in baseball in the early going, sitting toward the bottom of the major leagues in runs scored (49) and OPS (.593). The Diamondbacks had just three hit Monday, all singles, and the third didn’t come until David Peralta had one with two outs in the ninth inning.

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The Los Angeles Angels will host the Cleveland Guardians on Tuesday night in Anaheim, Calif., likely without outfielder Jo Adell in the starting lineup.

Adell essentially is the Angels’ No. 4 outfielder on the depth chart, behind center fielder Mike Trout and corner outfielders Taylor Ward and Brandon Marsh.

Adell started the series opener against Cleveland on Monday, a 3-0 Angels win, because Marsh was out with a stomach bug. However, the right-handed-hitting Adell will get most of his starts against left-handed pitchers, sending left-handed-hitting Marsh to the bench.

The Guardians will start right-hander Triston McKenzie (0-1, 2.38 ERA) on Tuesday, and are scheduled to throw right-handers in the final two games of the series Wednesday and Thursday.

Such is the plight for Adell, who was Baseball America’s No. 3-ranked prospect heading into the 2020 season. He struggled in the majors in 2020, batting .161 and striking out in 41.7 percent of his plate appearances.

Adell, 23, hit a grand slam in the first inning of the Angels’ 7-6 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday, then came to the plate with the bases loaded in the fifth. Even though two of the previous three Los Angeles hitters reached base via walk, Adell swung at the first pitch he saw and grounded into a double play.

In the seventh, he was due up and the Angels again had the bases loaded, but manager Joe Maddon sent up pinch hitter Matt Duffy instead. Adell, though, said he was not upset about Maddon’s decision.

“No, no, no, we have a manager, I trust his moves,” Adell said “He’s been doing this, been in baseball forever. There is no questioning anything that he does. We’re all here to win. We’re all here ready to do what we need to do, whether it’s me hitting or Duffy or whoever else, that’s who it’s going to be. And I’m all in for that.”

Marsh is hitting .306 with a .956 OPS and leads the team with 13 RBIs. Ward missed the first week of the season with a strained groin but has hit well since returning, batting .367 with a 1.225 OPS. He homered twice on Monday against the Guardians.

Adell is hitting .250 with a .745 OPS.

Angels left-hander Patrick Sandoval (0-0, 0.00 ERA) will make his third start of the season Tuesday, opposing McKenzie.

Sandoval is 0-1 with a 6.14 ERA in two career starts vs. Cleveland. McKenzie won his only career start against the Angels last Aug. 21, earning the win after giving up one run and striking out eight in seven innings.

McKenzie, 24, is still establishing himself as a big-leaguer. He made his debut in 2020 and appeared to solidify his place in the rotation. However, he struggled in 2021, and it resulted in a demotion to Triple-A Columbus, for which he made five minor league starts.

McKenzie said he feels he has turned the corner, that it was simply a matter of convincing himself he belonged in the majors.

“I think early on, I struggled a lot with just trying to find my place almost,” McKenzie said of last season. “And I felt like there was a lot of up and down, and I think middle of the year, I was kind of figuring out and telling myself, ‘I’m a big-leaguer, these guys respect me, the other team respects me,’ and going out there and kind of proving it to myself.”

He has pitched relatively well in his three starts this season, giving up three runs in 11 1/3 innings while striking out 11 and walking six. However, McKenzie has failed to last at least five innings in any start.

–Field Level Media

The Philadelphia Phillies scored seven total runs last weekend in a three-game series against the Milwaukee Brewers.

They broke out for eight runs in the opener of a four-game series against the Colorado Rockies on Monday. Philadelphia will look to build on the 8-2 win when it hosts the Rockies once again on Tuesday.

Bryce Harper launched a 417-foot home run to center field for Philadelphia on Monday, and Rhys Hoskins snapped out of a slump with three hits. Aside from the solo homer, the Phillies manufactured the other seven runs in a variety of ways.

“It was an angry swing,” Harper said of his homer during a postgame interview on NBC Sports Philadelphia. “It felt good.”

Phillies manager Joe Girardi said that he hadn’t been concerned with his offense’s slow start.

“I think a lot of these guys are going to heat up,” Girardi said. “I believe that in my heart.”

Winning pitcher Kyle Gibson was happy for the support.

“I think we were due, yeah,” he said. “That’s a good way to put it lightly. Yeah, we were due.”

The Tuesday game is due to feature a rematch of the pitchers who met last Wednesday in Denver, with Phillies right-hander Zach Eflin (0-1, 3.95 ERA) opposing Rockies right-hander German Marquez (0-0, 4.67).

Neither pitched well in a game the Phillies won 9-6 to salvage the finale of a three-game series. Eflin gave up four runs (two earned) on eight hits and no walks in 5 2/3 innings. He struck out five. Marquez yielded four runs on eight hits and two walks with five strikeouts in six innings.

Despite serving up three home runs in the no-decision, Marquez said of his outing, “Today was a lot better with my fastball command. The whole game I was feeling good.”

Eflin has struggled in five career starts against the Rockies, going 1-3 with a 6.49 ERA.

Marquez, a first time All-Star last season, is 3-1 with a 3.21 ERA in seven career starts against the Phillies. Dating back to last season, Marquez is winless in six consecutive outings, pitching a 7.12 ERA in those appearances.

The Monday game was all Phillies after the Rockies received solo home runs from Connor Joe and Randal Grichuk to go ahead 2-0 after two innings. Philadelphia scored eight unanswered runs the rest of the way. Three Colorado errors contributed to the team’s downfall.

“We understand the capability that we have and what we can do,” said Rockies pitcher Kyle Freeland, who took the defeat after allowing four runs, but only one earned, and striking out seven in five innings. “It was one bad loss. That’s not the script of our future at all.”

Rockies left fielder Kris Bryant, who signed a mammoth seven-year, $182 million free agent contract in the offseason, snapped an 0-for-16 slump with a single on Monday.

Joe socked his fourth homer of the season, half of the total he managed last year in 179 at-bats for the Rockies.

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The expectation was that Marcus Semien and Corey Seager, the biggest fish in Texas’ free agency spending spree during the offseason, eventually would find their footing for the Rangers.

That both delivered in the same inning of the Rangers’ 6-2 comeback victory over the visiting Houston Astros on Monday qualified as excellent timing.

Texas claimed the opener of a four-game series with its in-state rival after Semien and Seager produced run-scoring hits in the seventh inning, helping Texas erase what was a one-run deficit entering the frame.

The duo finished a combined 3-for-8 with two runs, two walks and two RBIs. Seager was one of four Rangers to record a multi-hit game in support of a pitching staff that is making strides.

“We’re starting to play good on both sides,” Seager said. “It starts with pitching.”

After Texas limited the Oakland Athletics to three runs on 10 hits over the course of a three-game weekend series, five Rangers pitchers held the Astros to eight hits and three walks in the series opener. Texas has surrendered just 11 runs while winning four of the past five games.

“Just working on your chemistry,” Seager said. “There’s a lot of good guys in there. Everybody just getting together and getting behind each other and trusting that we can do it.”

Texas left-hander Taylor Hearn (0-1, 7.59 ERA) will make his fourth start of the season on Tuesday. He did not factor into the decision in his latest outing, an 8-6 win over the Mariners on Thursday, after allowing five runs on five hits and four walks with four strikeouts over three innings. All of Seattle’s runs off of Hearn came in the first inning.

Hearn is 0-3 with an 8.39 ERA in his past six starts dating back to last season.

In seven career games (two starts) against the Astros, Hearn is 2-0 with a 1.53 ERA and a .177 opponents’ batting average. It’s the only opponent against which he has multiple wins.

Right-hander Jake Odorizzi (0-2, 9.00 ERA) has the starting assignment for the Astros on Tuesday. He failed to escape the first inning of his most recent start, allowing six runs (three earned) on two hits and four walks while recording two outs against the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday.

Odorizzi has more walks (seven) than strikeouts (five) and has thrown just nine innings in three starts this season.

Odorizzi is 4-1 with a 3.41 ERA over 12 career appearances (11 starts) against the Rangers. He did not record a decision in four games (three starts) against Texas last season while producing a 3.00 ERA with 15 strikeouts against just two walks over 15 innings.

After left-hander Framber Valdez produced a resilient effort over six innings on Monday, the Astros’ bullpen faltered down the stretch, allowing five runs on seven hits and one walk over two innings.

With closer Ryan Pressly (knee) on the injured list and roles a bit askew, Houston is giving rookies Parker Mushinski and Ronel Blanco chances to pitch high-leverage innings.

“We have to depend on everybody,” Astros manager Dusty Baker said. “We’re giving some guys some opportunities. Hopefully, they capitalize on it.”

The plan was unsuccessful on Monday, though. Mushinski faced four batters in the eighth, leaving with two on and two outs. Blanco took over and issued a walk before serving up a three-run double to Adolis Garcia.

The bullpen problems helped send Houston to a fifth loss in six games.

–Field Level Media

The streaking New York Mets will try to clinch their sixth straight series victory to start the season when they face the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday.

The Mets rallied with five runs in the ninth inning Monday for a 5-2 win at St. Louis during the opener of a three-game series.

New York has already registered series wins against the Washington Nationals, Philadelphia Phillies, Arizona Diamondbacks (twice) and San Francisco Giants.

“I think our guys are real mature about knowing it’s a great night for our organization, our fans, because of the game, the way it ended, the team we wanted to win won,” Mets manager Buck Showalter said after the comeback victory. “But I think they know there is a lot of baseball and a lots of ups and downs that we have to be ready for.

“But these are games you can reach back for and kind of remember why you do all this.”

The Mets’ Chris Bassitt (2-1, 3.00 ERA) will start Tuesday against the Cardinals’ Jordan Hicks (1-1, 1.29) in a matchup of right-handers.

Bassitt allowed just one run in 12 innings over his first two starts before getting tagged for five runs on eight hits in a 5-2 loss to the Giants on Wednesday.

Bassitt didn’t find consolation in retiring the last seven San Francisco batters he faced.

“This one won’t feel good,” he said. “I’m not going to take any positives from this one.”

Having spent the first seven years of his career in the American League, Bassitt has faced the Cardinals only once. He allowed three runs on four hits and four walks in 3 1/3 innings during that appearance in 2019.

Hicks, on the comeback from serious elbow injuries, is continuing his transition from the closer role to the rotation. He threw 27 and 35 pitches in two relief appearances this season, then fired 46 pitches in his first start, a 5-0 loss to the Marlins on Thursday. Hicks gave up a run on two hits in three innings at Miami.

The Cardinals hope Hicks can throw around 60 pitches this time around as he eases into his new role as the team’s No. 5 starter.

It helps that he can pitch with high velocity. Against the Marlins, Hicks, who earned 14 saves in 2019 before needing Tommy John surgery, threw 14 pitches at 100 mph or faster.

“That’s the luxury of being able to sink it at that velocity — a lot of groundballs, a lot of double plays, (that) plays well for what we have behind,” Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said. “At that velocity, with as much as that thing is moving downward and in to the right-hander, a lot of groundballs and we do a good job with those.”

Hicks said he hopes that mastering two different sliders will expand his pitch arsenal.

“They’re the same grip,” Hicks told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “Just trying to manipulate one to be a little more curveball-like, a slurve. I want more depth, more sweepy.”

The Mets will see Hicks as a starter for the first time. In five career relief appearances against them, Hicks allowed one run on three hits in 5 1/3 innings while earning two saves.

–Field Level Media

Dominic Smith hit the decisive two-run single as the visiting New York Mets rallied for five runs in the ninth inning to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-2 on Monday.

The Mets’ decisive outburst featured an RBI single from Mark Canha, Smith’s clutch hit and a two-run homer from Brandon Nimmo.

Mets starter Max Scherzer threw seven shutout innings. He allowed two hits and a walk and struck out 10 while remaining unbeaten in his past 23 starts. Trevor May (1-0) earned the victory despite allowing two runs. Edwin Diaz closed out the Cardinals to earn his second save.

Cardinals starter Miles Mikolas matched Scherzer with seven scoreless innings. He held the Mets to four hits and a walk while striking out five. Genesis Cabrera retired the Mets in order in the eighth inning, but the Mets rallied against Giovanny Gallegos (0-1) and T.J. McFarland in the ninth.

Dodgers 4, Diamondbacks 0

Walker Buehler struck out 10 while pitching the first complete game in the major leagues this season as Los Angeles earned a shutout victory over Arizona in Phoenix.

Buehler (2-1) gave up just three hits and no walks en route to his first career shutout. Trea Turner hit a two-run double nine pitches into the game, Max Muncy added an RBI double and Will Smith launched a home run for the Dodgers, who are 11-2 since the end of the season’s first series.

Diamondbacks starter Merrill Kelly (1-1) gave up three runs on seven hits over six innings with two walks and four strikeouts. Daulton Varsho and Christian Walker had the only other hits off Buehler, also singles.

Giants 4, Brewers 2

Luis Gonzalez hit his first major league home run with one aboard in the top of the ninth inning to give San Francisco a victory in Milwaukee.

Wilmer Flores drew a two-out walk off Jake Cousins (2-1), who came on to start the ninth. Gonzalez then sent a 2-2 pitch over the wall in right.

Willy Adames brought the Brewers even at 2 in the eighth with his second homer of the season, a two-out solo shot to left-center off Jake McGee (1-1). Camilo Doval, the eighth Giants pitcher used in a bullpen game, tossed a perfect ninth for his fourth save.

Angels 3, Guardians 0

Taylor Ward homered twice and Michael Lorenzen threw six scoreless innings to lead Los Angeles to a victory over Cleveland in Anaheim, Calif.

Lorenzen (2-1) allowed three hits and four walks while striking out three. Relievers Mike Mayers (seventh), Ryan Tepera (eighth) and Raisel Iglesias (ninth, third save) completed the shutout, each throwing a scoreless inning.

Ward’s solo homer in the fifth and two-run homer in the seventh off Cleveland starter Shane Bieber (1-1) accounted for the only runs of the game. Bieber gave up three runs on seven hits and two walks in 6 1/3 innings. He had six strikeouts.

Phillies 8, Rockies 2

Bryce Harper had a solo home run and a sacrifice fly and Kyle Schwarber doubled and knocked in two runs for host Philadelphia in a victory over Colorado.

Rhys Hoskins added three hits and J.T. Realmuto had an RBI double and a single for the Phillies, who snapped a two-game losing streak. Kyle Gibson (2-1) tossed 5 2/3 innings and gave up three hits and two runs for the win.

Connor Joe and Randal Grichuk homered for the Rockies, who had won two straight entering this series. Rockies starter Kyle Freeland (0-3) allowed six hits and four runs, one earned, in five innings.

Blue Jays 6, Red Sox 2

Bo Bichette hit his first career grand slam to break an eighth-inning tie as Toronto defeated visiting Boston.

Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and Matt Chapman hit solo home runs for the Blue Jays in the opener of a four-game series. Toronto starter Jose Berrios allowed two in seven-plus innings before Adam Cimber (4-0) earned the win in relief.

Boston starter Nathan Eovaldi gave up two runs and five hits and struck out five in seven innings. Matt Stram (1-1) took the loss, though Tyler Danish served up Bichette’s decisive slam.

Rangers 6, Astros 2

Marcus Semien and Corey Seager delivered run-scoring singles in the seventh inning and Adolis Garcia added a three-run double in the eighth as Texas rallied past visiting Houston.

The Rangers notched their fourth win in five games by striking against the Houston bullpen.

Yordan Alvarez gave Houston a 1-0 lead leading off the second against Rangers right-hander Dane Dunning with his fourth home run of the year. Dunning went 5 2/3 innings and gave up two runs on five hits and a walk with five strikeouts.

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Boston Red Sox right-hander Nick Pivetta will try to reverse his early-season struggles Tuesday night, but he faces a tough task in a return matchup against the host Toronto Blue Jays.

Pivetta, a native of Victoria, British Columbia, was the losing pitcher in the Blue Jays’ 6-1 victory at Boston on Wednesday. His mound opponent Tuesday will be right-hander Kevin Gausman, who allowed one run in eight-plus innings Thursday in Toronto’s 3-2 win in the rubber match of a three-game series at Boston.

Boston will need a good performance from Pivetta (0-3, 10.03 ERA) after losing the opener of the four-game series 6-2 Monday night due to Bo Bichette’s eighth-inning grand slam.

Boston starter Nathan Eovaldi pitched seven innings on Monday, allowing two runs on solo homers. Toronto starter Jose Berrios gave up two runs in seven-plus innings.

All five runs Pivetta allowed in his four innings on Wednesday came in the second inning.

“Super disappointing with how the second inning went,” Pivetta said after the start. “I had way higher hopes with how this would go.”

The outing continued a poor opening to the season in which Pivetta hasn’t gone more than 5 2/3 innings in an outing and hasn’t held an opponent to fewer than four runs.

“It’s unfortunate, but I can’t remember the last time I had to deal with something like this,” Pivetta said. “You kind of find out who you are in these moments, how you’re going to proceed.”

Pivetta pitched scoreless innings in the third and fourth on Wednesday. Pitching coach Dave Bush helped him make adjustments that improved the velocity on his fastball and the consistency of his curveball.

“Honestly, the last two innings were his best innings so far out of the three outings,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said following the Wednesday game. “If we’re going to take something positive out of this, it was the way he finished.”

Pivetta is 1-3 with a 6.28 ERA in eight career starts against Toronto. Gausman is 5-8 with a 4.25 ERA in 21 career games (16 starts) vs. Boston.

“He was awesome. That’s an ace for you,” Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo said after Gausman’s win in Boston. “Against a good-hitting lineup, that (splitter) was nasty, locating all of his pitches, throwing strikes. We needed a start like that and he gave it to us.”

Gausman (1-1, 2.89 ERA) was looking for his second career complete game but was removed after a leadoff single in the ninth.

“In my mind, that was my game, so I was going out there in the ninth to get the three outs,” Gausman said. “That was my goal. Obviously, it was a good first pitch to (Trevor) Story and he hit it the other way. That could easily have been a ground ball to the shortstop and I’m still in the game.”

Toronto put Cavan Biggio on the COVID-related injured list on Monday and promoted right-hander Bowden Francis from Triple-A Buffalo.

Boston put right-handers Kutter Crawford and Tanner Houck on the restricted list, apparently because they are unvaccinated, preventing them from entering Canada.

The Red Sox added right-handers Tyler Danish and John Schreiber as roster replacements. Danish allowed Bichette’s grand slam.

Red Sox catcher Kevin Plawecki was reinstated from the COVID-related IL, and catcher Connor Wong was optioned to Triple-A Worcester.

Cora, who tested positive for COVID-19 last week, was not with the team on Monday. Bench coach Will Venable remained the acting manager.

“A.C. is doing well,” Venable said. “Better and better every day. Still going through the protocol and still kind of day-to-day. Just not here (Monday), and that’s as far as I know.”

–Field Level Media

Pittsburgh’s Mitch Keller gets a rematch with fellow right-hander Brandon Woodruff when the Pirates open a six-game homestand against the travel-dizzied Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday night.

Keller (0-3, 6.23 ERA) and Woodruff (2-1, 4.30) both pitched brilliantly head-to-head last Wednesday in Milwaukee, with the Brewers’ Rowdy Tellez producing the only run allowed by either with a solo home run off Keller in the second inning.

Woodruff didn’t give up any hits until Daniel Vogelbach singled with one out in the sixth. The 29-year-old escaped a two-on, one-out jam with a 1-0 lead, then turned the ball over to the Milwaukee bullpen, which protected the third of three straight wins over the Pirates.

The Brewers wound up with a 4-2 win that day.

Keller went 5 1/3 innings, allowing just four hits and no walks while striking out seven. Woodruff walked two and fanned nine.

Having lost seven of their first 12 games, the Pirates turned things around on their next stop in Chicago, where they took three of four from the Cubs to get back to .500. Pittsburgh pitching allowed just eight runs in the three wins.

Veteran catcher Roberto Perez believes the improved play of the Pirates over last year’s 101-loss edition starts at the top.

“I think you have to give credit to the manager,” Perez, who is in his first season with the Pirates, said of Derek Shelton. “He’s doing a really good job of matching up and putting guys in situations where they can succeed.”

Keller has never beaten the Brewers, going 0-2 with a 2.79 ERA against them in two starts. His effort against them last week was a nice bounce-back from his first two starts of the season, during which he allowed 13 hits and eight runs in 7 2/3 innings in losses to the St. Louis Cardinals and Washington Nationals.

While the Pirates had Monday off after the short flight home from Chicago, the Brewers were asked to swing by Milwaukee for a single game against the San Francisco Giants between road series against the Philadelphia Phillies and Pittsburgh.

The venture didn’t go well as the Brewers wasted 6 2/3 shutout innings by Corbin Burnes in a 4-2 loss to the Giants.

The usually reliable Milwaukee bullpen served up all four runs on four hits, including two homers, in 2 1/3 innings.

Brewers manager Craig Counsell had tried to put a positive spin on the unscheduled detour before taking the field Monday.

“It’s the same for everybody. You just have to play it,” he said of the game that was inserted into the schedule after having been missed during the lockout. “When we compare ourselves to the rest of the league, we have favorable travel.”

Woodruff will be tasked with returning the Brewers to their winning ways as they get back on the road in Pittsburgh. Milwaukee won two of three in Philadelphia.

Woodruff’s outstanding effort against the Pirates last week was certainly no surprise. He is 5-2 with a 3.74 ERA in 11 career appearances, including nine starts, against the Pirates. Woodruff has never lost in Pittsburgh, going 1-0 with a 3.77 ERA in four games, two of which were starts.

Since getting bombed for six hits and seven runs in 3 2/3 innings in a 9-0 loss to the Cubs in his season debut, Woodruff has thrown 11 consecutive shutout innings, allowing the Cardinals and Pirates a total of four hits.

–Field Level Media

Walker Buehler struck out 10 while pitching the first complete game in the major leagues this season as the Los Angeles Dodgers earned a 4-0 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday in Phoenix.

Buehler (2-1) gave up just three hits and no walks en route to his first career shutout.

Trea Turner hit a two-run double nine pitches into the game, Max Muncy added an RBI double and Will Smith launched a home run for the Dodgers, who are 11-2 since the end of the season’s first series.

Buehler entered the night with 11 total strikeouts over his first three starts this year. He then delivered his 13th career outing with double-digit strikeouts.

The right-hander threw 108 pitches — the highest total in the majors this year. He retired 15 consecutive hitters before David Peralta singled with two outs in the ninth inning.

Diamondbacks starter Merrill Kelly (1-1) gave up three runs on seven hits over six innings with two walks and four strikeouts. Daulton Varsho and Christian Walker had the only other hits off Buehler, also singles.

In their return to Arizona barely three weeks after breaking camp at spring training, the Dodgers got off to a quick start. Mookie Betts opened the game with a walk against Kelly and Freddie Freeman doubled into the right field corner.

Turner followed with a two-run double to left to give him 15 RBIs through his first 16 games.

Muncy boosted the Los Angeles advantage to 3-0 in the fifth inning with a two-out RBI double to right-center that scored Betts.

Smith hit his second home run of the season with one out in the eighth inning, taking left-hander Tyler Gilbert deep. Gilbert was recalled from Triple-A Reno earlier Monday.

By taking the series opener, the Dodgers now have two chances to win their fifth consecutive series after dropping a season-opening, three-game set at Colorado.

The Diamondbacks took their third loss in four games.

–Field Level Media