ARLINGTON -- The D-backs got a quality outing from Patrick Corbin, and their offense gave the bullpen a margin for error by continuing to tack on runs.
It added up to a 6-4 win over the Rangers on Tuesday night at Globe Life Park as the D-backs earned a split of the two-game series.

With the win, Arizona will at the very least maintain a one-game lead over the Dodgers and Rockies, who entered the night in a tie for second place in the National League West.
First, there was Corbin, who followed a familiar script as he did not walk a batter or allow a home run while allowing three runs over seven innings.
"[Corbin was] pretty challenging for us tonight," Rangers manager Jeff Banister said. "The slider was pretty dynamic pitch for him. Enough fastball, the delivery is a little bit of a challenge to pick the baseball up off of, which obviously made both pitches -- the slider and the fastball -- play up very well. I thought good stuff, plus slider at times made it very challenging for us."

Corbin has not issued a walk in his past three starts, and has gone 10 starts without allowing a homer.
In other words, if the Rangers were going to beat him, they were going to have to string multiple hits together. Aside from a two-run sixth, they weren't able to do that.
"He makes pitches, and I think he has a really innate quality to locate balls to the bottom of the zone," D-backs manager Torey Lovullo said. "You come into this ballpark, you wonder often what are going to be the conditions. The ball does fly out of here, especially with this group of guys. This group of hitters here, they're very, very potent."
While the D-backs have done a nice job scoring early in games -- they lead the Majors in first-inning runs -- tacking on runs as the game goes on has been an issue.
Not so Tuesday, as they scored a run in each of the first two innings, added two more in the fourth and single runs in the sixth and eighth.

"We've [scored] in spurts, but not as consistently as I know these guys are capable of doing," Lovullo said. "When you have a quality at-bat at the right time, it just sends a great signal, a great message. It's something we talk about. We're very conscious of it here, and our guys just have a really good approach to make that happen."
MOMENT THAT MATTERED
Every run counts: It was a simple single to left-center, but Jonathan Jay's RBI knock in the eighth felt like more than that. The run helped push the Arizona lead from two runs to three, which put less pressure on the bullpen.

"I thought the biggest one for me was the Jon Jay base hit the other way that gave us the final run," Lovullo said. "Those are the little things that you do that put teams away."
 YOU GOTTA SEE THIS
Jurickson Profar led off the ninth with a triple off closer Brad Boxberger, and it looked like the Rangers had the beginnings of a rally when Robinson Chirinos flared a ball to right that was over the head of second baseman Ketel Marte. Instead of the second hit of the inning, though, right fielder Steven Souza Jr. made a diving catch. While Profar scored on the play, the out kept the tying run from coming to the plate.

"Off the bat, I didn't," Souza said when asked if he thought he was going to catch the ball. "I thought it was going to fall between us, because I was playing pretty deep. I got a good jump on it and was just hoping not to collide with Marte there."
UP NEXT
After taking Wednesday off, the D-backs open a four-game series against the Padres in San Diego on Thursday night with Clay Buchholz (5-2, 2.67 ERA) on the mound. The right-hander has proven to be a great pickup by the D-backs, who signed him to a Minor League deal on May 4. Only once in his 11 starts this year has he allowed more than three runs. The Padres will counter with right-hander Jacob Nix (1-0, 0.00), who won his big league debut last time out. First pitch is set for 7:10 p.m. MST.