PHOENIX -- Are the D-backs finally ready to get on a roll?\n\nThursday night’s 11-5 win over the Dodgers at Chase Field was their fourth in a row -- one shy of their longest winning streak of the season -- and while they remained 4 1/2 games behind the Cubs for the second National League Wild Card spot, they have shown encouraging signs of late.\n\n• [Box score](https://www.mlb.com/gameday/564895/final/box)\n\n“We’re in a good spot,” D-backs manager Torey Lovullo said. “We’re in a really good spot right now. There’s a ton of energy in the dugout, there’s a ton of energy in that clubhouse right now and these guys are ready to go.”\n\nLovullo has felt that way before, and each time the D-backs were unable to follow his words with a sustained run.\n\nWith just 28 games left in the season is this time different?\n\n“I think so,” D-backs shortstop
The D-backs passed the Mets in the Wild Card standings, but remain behind the Brewers, Phillies and Cubs.\n\nStill, it’s a lot different feeling than it was Saturday in Milwaukee after they had dropped the first two games of their series to the Brewers and had lost three straight.\n\n“That’s the beauty of what can happen,” Lovullo said. “It can happen fast right now. I think one of the comments that I made around that time is within a week we could be having a totally different conversation and feel really good about where we’re at.”\n\nIt was a slow start Thursday night for the D-backs, who managed just one hit against Hyun-Jin Ryu over the first three innings, while the Dodgers grabbed a 3-0 lead.\n\nThat quickly changed in the fourth when the D-backs scored four times against Ryu with the red-hot
“Like I said, we’re not giving up,” Flores said. “We’re giving it everything we’ve got. We have September left. We’ve waited for this.”\n\nRyu (12-5) seemed to have settled back in after the Dodgers scored a run in the fifth and he retired the first two batters in the bottom of the frame, but the D-backs strung together five two-out hits to score three runs and take a 7-4 lead.\n\n“I think we just executed well, used the whole field,” Ahmed said. “\\[Ryu’s\\] not a guy who throws a lot of fastballs right down the middle. He mixes a lot, hits his corners. We were just fighting it and trying to get good pitches to hit, and I guess not try to do too much with them. I think we did a good job of that, using the whole field. We hit all different kinds of pitches, the cutter, the changeup -- everything, I think.”