Diamondbacks take 2 from Rangers

The Arizona Diamondbacks take down the Texas Rangers at Chase Field on Memorial Day, taking the first game of a split doubleheader  5-3 this afternoon and then cap the day off with a walk-off 5-4 win tonight to improve to 30-22 on the season and now hold a 1 1/2 game lead over the second-place San Francisco Giants in the NL West.

What a week of baseball at Chase Field as Arizona wins two of three from the San Diego Padres and then take two games from the Rangers, a team which sent its best pitcher to the mound tonight in hopes of slowing down the streaking Diamondbacks.

After getting six strong innings of shutout ball from Tyler Skaggs (1-0) in the opener, Arizona then sends Trevor Cahill to the mound in the nightcap to face the Rangers' ace, Yu Darvish.

Darvish strikes out 14 and loses! Up 4-2 in the eighth inning, Didi Grigorius smacks a Darvish cutter into the right field seats for a two-run homer to get the Diamondbacks even and then in the bottom of the ninth Cliff Pennington singles home the game winner.

Cahill goes eight innings, allows four runs -- three earned, before giving way to Matt Reynolds, who gets the first two outs in the top of the ninth, followed by Brad Ziegler (2-1), who faces just two batters and ends up with the win.

Darvish allows four runs in  7 2/3 and leaves the game without the decision, while Jason Frasor (0-1) is saddled with the loss, after giving up a double to Miguel Montero in the bottom of the ninth.

Montero scampered home on Pennington's opposite field single, which curled its way down the first baseline and into the right field corner.

Way to go, D'backs!