Dodgers 4, Diamondbacks 1
LOS ANGELES -- Second baseman Chase Utley homered and drove in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers snapped a four-game skid with a 4-1 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium.
Utley doubled off reliever David Hernandez to score shortstop Jimmy Rollins, who reached on an infield single. For Rollins, who started for the first time since Sept. 6, he tied Mickey Mantle's career mark for hits at 2,415.
Utley hit a lead-off home run as the Dodgers (85-65) reduced their magic number to six to clinch their third consecutive National League West title -- pending the outcome of the San Francisco-San Diego game.
Rookie Corey Seager, who started at third for the first time in the majors, hit a two-run homer in the eighth to cap the scoring.
Dodgers starter Carlos Frias, who got the nod when Zack Greinke was scratched earlier in the day with a sore right calf, allowed a run on one hit with two strikeouts in four innings. Frias' lone mistake was a pitch that first baseman Paul Goldschmidt deposited into the stands for his 31st home run this season.
However, the Dodgers' bullpen kept Arizona scoreless the rest of the way. Reliever Chris Hatcher (3-5) worked a hitless two-thirds of an inning for the win.
Closer Kenley Jansen pitched a scoreless ninth for his 33rd save.
Hernandez (1-5) gave up two runs on two hits in one-third of an inning.
After serving up the homer to Utley, Arizona's Chase Anderson shut down the Dodgers. Anderson, who struck out five in a row at one point, did not give up another a hit, retiring 18 of the final 20 batters he faced.
Anderson struck out a career-high 10 in six innings.
Utley drove the first pitch from Anderson to right-center. The ball bounced off of the glove of center fielder A.J. Pollock and over the wall for a 1-0 Dodgers' lead. It was Utley's eighth home run this season and his first ever as a leadoff hitter.
In the second, Goldschmidt hit a solo blast to right-center to tie the score. For Goldschmidt, it was his 21st career long ball against the Dodgers, the most by any active opposing player. Goldschmidt also joined Chad Tracy (2005) as the only Diamondbacks' players to homer in four straight games at Dodger Stadium.
NOTES: Dodgers manager Don Mattingly on the passing of Yogi Berra: "I think the reason he was so loved, it wasn't about his career, even though he was a great, great player, it was really more about the person, how great a guy he was, the way he treated people, how humble, how sincere, kind he was to people. That's what really defined him and why he's touched so many people." Mattingly has worn Berra's No. 8 since he joined the Dodgers in 2004 as a coach under former manager Joe Torre. ... Diamondbacks LHP Patrick Corbin (6-4, 2.99 ERA) will face Dodgers LHP Clayton Kershaw (14-7, 2.18 ERA) in the series finale Thursday.