PHOENIX -- One hit.\n\nAs their offense has struggled for weeks now to put up crooked numbers, the Diamondbacks found ways to get runners on base. But getting that one hit to drive them in was where the trouble lied.
\"We just haven't gotten that slug,\" manager Torey Lovullo said. \"That one big hit at the right moment.\"\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon at Chase Field, though,
The homer was fated when, in Carroll's nine-pitch first at-bat that resulted in a strikeout, Aldegheri threw him four changeups.\n\n\"I had seen a few \\[changeups\\] in that at-bat before,\" Carroll said. \"Left-on-left changeups are not too common, but I felt like it helped, had seen it that at-bat before, and was able to put a good swing on it.\"\n\nThe homer was a continuation of Carroll’s dominance against left-handed pitchers this year. In 90 at-bats against southpaws, he has a .389/.446/.667 slash line.\n\nThe key to his success against lefties, Carroll said, was making sure that he gets consistent work in the cage against pitches coming from that angle.\n\n\"There's stretches of the season where you might not see a lefty for a week, so just making sure I'm still getting that work in, even when we do have stretches like that,\" Carroll said.\n\nAldegheri didn't regret throwing the changeup to Carroll, but didn't like the result.\n\n\"I think it was the right pitch, just the wrong location,\" Aldegheri said. \"I just didn't execute. He already saw \\[four\\] in the first at-bat. I paid the price.\"
While Aldegheri paid the price, Diamondbacks starter