Arizona Diamondbacks’ Patrick Corbin takes mound in San Diego

The Diamondbacks are in San Diego to open a series against the Padres on Monday night at 7:10 p.m. Check back throughout the game for more updates.

D-Backs’ Peralta departs with apparent injury

Diamondbacks left fielder David Peralta departed Monday night’s game against the San Diego Padres with an apparent injury.

The club has not announced specifics, but Peralta was not in the on-deck circle when the top of the sixth ended, then didn’t take his position in left for the bottom of the inning.

D-Backs leave bases loaded

The Diamondbacks loaded the bases with one out in the sixth inning, but Padres reliever Craig Stammen entered in relief of Luis Perdomo and retired back-to-back hitters, stranding all three runners in inherited.

The Padres continued to cling to a 4-2 lead as play entered the bottom of the sixth.

After the Diamondbacks got a single from Jake Lamb and a pair of walks to load the bases, Perdomo departed. Stammen then got Chris Herrmann to fly to shallow right before pinch-hitter Rey Fuentes popped out to first to end the inning.

The Diamondbacks put the leadoff man aboard against Perdomo in four of six innings but managed to score in only the third inning.

Renfroe, Hedges go deep for Padres

Hunter Renfroe hit a three-run homer in the first and Austin Hedges connected for a solo shot in the second, and the San Diego Padres took a 4-2 lead into the bottom of the third inning on Monday evening at Petco Park.

Renfroe, playing in his first game back in the majors after returning from a demotion to Triple-A, blasted a Patrick Corbin fastball to straightaway center field. Hedges’ homer also came on a fastball, a pitch he sent out to left-center.

The Diamondbacks got two runs back in the top of the third, getting RBI singles from David Peralta and J.D. Martinez. The Diamondbacks would have scored again but Padres center fielder Manuel Margot made a tremendous diving catch on a Daniel Descalso liner to end the inning.

Lamb hitting sixth vs. Padres

After another hitless day in the No. 3 spot in the lineup, Jake Lamb was dropped to sixth on Monday, a move manager Torey Lovullo said was done to relieve pressure on his struggling third baseman.

“I know that he’s walking through a little bit of a tough time,” Lovullo said, “and I want to help out that situation the best I knew how.”

Lovullo said the Diamondbacks’ best lineup is with a dialed-in Lamb hitting in the middle of it, and he hopes to revert back to that in due time.

“When he is doing the types of things that we know he’s capable of doing, being more closer to the top is going to create more opportunities, more at-bats and get us pushed in the right direction,” Lovullo said.

Family matters

Torey Lovullo’s son, Nick, has been a regular visitor to the Diamondbacks clubhouse in recent weeks, a development the manager described as being “beyond cool” for a father.

But he acknowledged there have been some “awkward” moments given that Nick, 23, is a prospect in the Boston Red Sox organization.

“I have to be a little careful what I talk about,” Torey Lovullo said. “I don’t think he’s going to spill the beans on anything that’s going on around here, but I have to really be careful about some of the things that I openly talk about with other people.

“I wish the story was a little bit different, but he’s on his own path and on his own way and hopefully he gets to the big leagues.”

Martinez calls player of week awards ‘humbling’

J.D. Martinez didn’t deny the novelty of winning another player of the week award – he’s the first person in the 44-year history of the award to win it four times in the same season – but he said his focus remains entirely elsewhere.

“They’re definitely humbling, awesome accolades to achieve, but right now our goal is the playoffs,” Martinez said. “That’s what I want. I want you to be interviewing me about how it feels to win a World Series.”

Martinez, who went 10 for 23 (.435) with three doubles and three homers during the week, is so focused on the big picture that he wasn’t going to risk letting a loss on Sunday in San Francisco put a damper on the good vibes in the Diamondbacks clubhouse.

As reporters were waiting to speak with players after the game, Martinez and teammate Robbie Ray tinkered with the stereo and cued up songs typical for a winning clubhouse. Martinez said he was taking a page from former Detroit Tigers’ teammate Torii Hunter’s book.

“I remember he was like, ‘Dude, who cares?’ ” Martinez recalled. “ ‘We lost today. It doesn’t matter. We’re in the run right now. This is not a time to hang to our heads because we lost a game. We won the series.’ ”

Martinez said he ran the music idea past veteran teammate Gregor Blanco to make sure he was on board with it.

“Everyone wants to put their head down because we lost a game,” Martinez said. “Forget that. We lost a game. So what? We’re going to lose a game. We’re not perfect. It’s going to happen. We have to continue the positive high. You have to continue with the positivity in the clubhouse and continue to keep going.”

Short hops

Infielder Ildemaro Vargas said he’s expecting to undergo surgery to remove a broken hamate bone in his hand in the offseason, an injury he sustained in July while sliding into second base. Vargas missed time then but he said the hand isn’t bothering him now. Still, he’s worried about it becoming an issue in the future and wants to get it taken care of once the season is over.

Lineup

1. David Peralta LF

2. Ketel Marte SS

3. Paul Goldschmidt 1B

4. J.D. Martinez RF

5. Daniel Descalso 2B

6. Jake Lamb 3B

7. A.J. Pollock CF

8. Chris Herrmann C

9. Patrick Corbin P

Monday’s game

Diamondbacks at Padres

When: 7:10 p.m.

Where: Petco Park, San Diego. 

TV/Radio: FSAZ/KMVP-FM (98.7), KHOV-FM (105.1).

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Pitching notes

Diamondbacks LHP Patrick Corbin (14-12, 4.06) vs. Padres RHP Luis Perdomo (7-10, 4.61).

Patrick Corbin gave up just one run in 6 2/3 innings against the Rockies on Wednesday at Chase Field, bouncing back from a rough outing against the Padres. …Corbin had pitched competitively against the Padres in his three previous starts against them this season, never allowing more than three runs in an outing. … Right-handed hitters (.295 average) have had far more success against Corbin than lefties (.225). … Luis Perdomo threw well against the Diamondbacks at Chase Field on Sept. 10 but allowed three solo home runs, two to RF J.D. Martinez and one to 1B Paul Goldschmidt. … He has thrown well in his past five starts, posting a 3.30 ERA in 30 innings. … He has recorded exactly 18 outs in eight consecutive starts and nine of his past 10.

Coming up

Tuesday: At San Diego, 7:10 p.m., Diamondbacks RHP Zack Godley (8-7, 3.00) vs. Padres LHP Travis Wood (1-3, 6.91).

Wednesday: At San Diego, 6:10 p.m., Diamondbacks LHP Robbie Ray (14-5, 2.74) vs. Padres RHP Dinelson Lamet (7-7, 4.15).

Thursday: Off.

Friday: At Chase Field, 6:40 p.m., Diamondbacks RHP Zack Greinke (17-6, 2.87) vs. Marlins TBA.

Up next

San Diego Padres

Padres update: The Padres took the first two games of a three-game series against the Diamondbacks on Sept. 8-10, including the game that ended the Diamondbacks’ 13-game win streak, but they entered Sunday having lost five consecutive games since. Their pitching has been getting knocked around recently; the Padres have an 8.60 ERA in their past seven games, a stretch in which opponents have hit .335. 2B Jose Pirela has played just once since the Diamondbacks series; he’s dealing with a sprained finger. RHP Carter Capps, who only recently returned from Tommy John surgery, is done for the year with a blood clot in his side, an issue that initially was believed to have been a kidney stone.