Lorenzen was sent to hit against the last left hander on the Diamondbacks staff. Josh VanMeter was due to hit but David Bell sent up his bullpen ace to make the Reds a winner. They salvaged the third game of the series after losing the first two.
It was a setback for Arizona. They are within two games of the last wild card spot.
Mike Leake was the Reds' number one pick in the 2009 and went directly into the Reds' starting rotation in 2010.
Leake was traded to San Francisco for Adam Duvall and Keury Mella, who is currently in the Reds' bullpen, in the first phase of the current rebuild that started in 2015.
The right-hander put a road block in that process by pitching 6-1/3 strong innings in the Diamondbacks' but was the victim of a blown save. allowing the playoff hopeful team to stay in the hunt for a wild card playoff spot. Arizona captured all three games in the series.
Anthony DeSclafani was good pitching six innings, allowing three runs, two earned on three hits, three walks and a hit batter. He struck out three.
An error played a key role in getting the scoring started. Eduardo Escobar drew a walk from DeSclafani to open the second inning. Jake Lamb hit a sharp ground ball into the shift. Freddie Galvis gloved it and delivered a good throw to Eugenio Suarez covering. Suarez was going into the pivot to make the relay to first when the ball came loose. Second base umpire Mark Wegner ruled Suarez was in the act of throwing when he dropped the ball. The replay contradicted the call and all hands were safe. Nick Ahmed followed one out later with a run scoring single to left.
Suarez got to Leake with his 43rd home run of the year with Joey Votto on base to give the Reds the lead.
Ketel Marte, who began the game .004 points behind Anthony Rendon for the National League batting crown at .331, clubbed his 32nd home run off DeSclafani in the fifth. DeSclafani hit Tim Locastro with a pitch that set up Marte's two-run blow that gave Leake the lead to protect.
Leake left the game after hitting Brian O'Grady with a pitch with one out. Matt Andriese got the last two outs to keep the lead.
Suarez hit his 44th home run of the season against Jimmie Sherfy. Sherfy struck Suarez out on Saturday. Suarez had three bad swings at Sherfy's off-speed pitches while representing the winning run. This time Suarez fell down on one of Sherfy's change ups but got up and belted a 75 mile an hour pitch on a line down the left field line.
Amir Garrett and Robert Stephenson pitched scoreless innings for the Reds.
Raisel Iglesias pitched a scoreless ninth.
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