The moves keep coming for the Diamondbacks, who added another piece to their pitching staff on Sunday and as a result of the trade are expected to promote one of their top prospects.

The Diamondbacks acquired right-handed specialist Brad Ziegler from the Oakland A’s on Sunday afternoon, giving up first baseman Brandon Allen and Tripe-A left-hander Jordan Norberto.

To take the place of Allen, the club is expected to promote Double-A Mobile first baseman Paul Goldschmidt, who for the third year in a row has destroyed minor-league pitching, hitting .306 with 30 home runs.

Goldschmidt is expected to join the club Monday in San Francisco.

In Ziegler, the Diamondbacks are getting a pitcher who has dominated right-handed hitters throughout his career. Because of his side-slinging delivery, righties are hitting just .198/.250/.229 against him in 105 plate appearances. In his career, he’s held righties to a .224 average and .550 OPS.

The downside, though, is that left-handers have little trouble against him. They are hitting .396 against him this season with a .473 on-base and .479 slugging.

Ziegler has a 2.39 ERA in 37 2/3 innings this season and a 2.49 ERA in his four-year career.

He was Super 2 arbitration eligible this season. He could be in line to make about $2 million next season. The Diamondbacks will have him under club control for another three years.

The Diamondbacks on Saturday added right-hander Jason Marquis to their starting rotation, giving up low-level infield prospect Zach Walters in exchange.

The Diamondbacks took on about $2.5 million in Marquis and will add another $410,000 or so with Ziegler, and they gave up three players who they don’t envision as being key pieces in their future.

Allen was called up from Triple A and added to the Diamondbacks active roster on July 15, the first game after the All-Star break.

In 11 games with Arizona in 2011, Allen had three home runs, including a three-run shot against the Dodgers on July 16, powering the Diamondbacks to a 3-2 win.

In his 65-game major-league career, Allen has eight home runs, 27 RBIs, 29 walks, and a .213 batting average.

“It wasn’t a very clean game for us,” manager Kirk Gibson said. “We gave up nine runs, and six of them were earned. Three times we scored, they came right back in those innings. So we had a hard time shutting them down, for sure.”

With one out and runners on first and second, pinch-hitter Tony Gwynn Jr. hit a fly ball to the warning track in right that Upton misjudged for a two-base error. James Loney scored on the play, then Jamey Carroll hit a sacrifice fly and Rafael Furcal followed with an RBI double to make it 9-5.

“It’s not an easy play,” Gibson said regarding Upton’s ninth error. “He was playing in a little bit and had to go all the way back to the wall. But he showed some emotion when he came back into the dugout.”

Arizona rookie Josh Collmenter (6-6) threw 81 pitches over 3 2-3 innings in the shortest of his 14 big league starts, giving up five runs and seven hits.

In Collmenter’s first big league start on May 14 at Dodger Stadium, the 25-year-old right-hander allowed two hits over six innings in a 1-0 victory over Chad Billingsley — whose throwing error on an attempted pickoff to an uncovered second base resulted in an unearned run.

“It was a new pitcher we were facing that time. I think that was his first start, and we didn’t really know too much about him,” said Matt Kemp, who hit a three-run homer and a two-run single.

“But tonight we remembered him from last time, and it was a little bit easier to face him because we knew what he had and what his pitches looked like. And we hopped on him tonight.”

Ryan Roberts hit his 14th homer in the second for the D’Backs, but the Dodgers responded with three in the third on Kemp’s 25th homer.

Aaron Miles’ sharp single went off Collmenter’s lower right leg and ricocheted into foul territory behind third base. After a trainer came out to check on him, Collmenter gave up an opposite-field single by Andre Ethier on an 0-2 count, and Kemp drove the next pitch to right-center — becoming the first player this season with at least 25 homers and 25 stolen bases.

Collmenter had control problems in the fourth, hitting Furcal and Ethier. Furcal was erased when Miles bounced into a fielder’s choice. But Ethier was plunked on a 1-1 count, loading the bases, and Kemp chased Collmenter with a two-run single to center that made it 5-2.

“His command wasn’t like it has been recently — really all year,” Gibson said. “He struggled and got behind in the counts, walked guys hit a couple of guys and they were able to get some big hits.”

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Arizona Diamondbacks didn’t put themselves in a position to challenge for the NL West lead by playing sloppy baseball, or by failing to come up with shutdown innings by their pitching staff after scoring.

But those glaring problems came back to bite the D’Backs on Friday night in the opener of a three-game series with the Los Angeles Dodgers, who capitalized on an error by right fielder Justin Upton to score three unearned insurance runs in the seventh inning for a 9-5 victory.

“It wasn’t a very clean game for us,” manager Kirk Gibson said. “We gave up nine runs, and six of them were earned. Three times we scored, they came right back in those innings. So we had a hard time shutting them down, for sure.”

With one out and runners on first and second, pinch-hitter Tony Gwynn Jr. hit a fly ball to the warning track in right that Upton misjudged for a two-base error. James Loney scored on the play, then Jamey Carroll hit a sacrifice fly and Rafael Furcal followed with an RBI double to make it 9-5.

“It’s not an easy play,” Gibson said regarding Upton’s ninth error. “He was playing in a little bit and had to go all the way back to the wall. But he showed some emotion when he came back into the dugout.”

Arizona rookie Josh Collmenter (6-6) threw 81 pitches over 3 2-3 innings in the shortest of his 14 big league starts, giving up five runs and seven hits.

In Collmenter’s first big league start on May 14 at Dodger Stadium, the 25-year-old right-hander allowed two hits over six innings in a 1-0 victory over Chad Billingsley — whose throwing error on an attempted pickoff to an uncovered second base resulted in an unearned run.

“It was a new pitcher we were facing that time. I think that was his first start, and we didn’t really know too much about him,” said Matt Kemp, who hit a three-run homer and a two-run single.

“But tonight we remembered him from last time, and it was a little bit easier to face him because we knew what he had and what his pitches looked like. And we hopped on him tonight.”

Ryan Roberts hit his 14th homer in the second for the D’Backs, but the Dodgers responded with three in the third on Kemp’s 25th homer.

Aaron Miles’ sharp single went off Collmenter’s lower right leg and ricocheted into foul territory behind third base. After a trainer came out to check on him, Collmenter gave up an opposite-field single by Andre Ethier on an 0-2 count, and Kemp drove the next pitch to right-center — becoming the first player this season with at least 25 homers and 25 stolen bases.

Collmenter had control problems in the fourth, hitting Furcal and Ethier. Furcal was erased when Miles bounced into a fielder’s choice. But Ethier was plunked on a 1-1 count, loading the bases, and Kemp chased Collmenter with a two-run single to center that made it 5-2.

“His command wasn’t like it has been recently — really all year,” Gibson said. “He struggled and got behind in the counts, walked guys hit a couple of guys and they were able to get some big hits.”

Kemp’s five RBIs game him a league-leading 80 for the season, three more than Philadelphia slugger Ryan Howard.

The only Dodger to finish a season as the NL leader in RBIs since the club relocated from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 1958 was Tommy Davis. He drove in a franchise-record 153 runs in 1962, Dodger Stadium’s inaugural season.

“That’s really not important to me. What’s important is winning games,” said Kemp, who had a career-high 101 RBIs in 2009 and dropped off to 89 last season. “If I drive in runs, we win. I just want to do good for the team and try to make things happen around here.”

The All-Star center fielder has seven career games with five or more RBIs, including June 4 at Cincinnati, when he hit a tying grand slam and drove in a career-high six runs in an 11-8 victory in 11 innings.

“Last year was a disappointing year on the field for me, and I just didn’t want to repeat that,” Kemp added. “I promised that I would try my best not to let that happen again. And hopefully, I hope that never happens again. I don’t like struggling. It’s not a good feeling. I would say I was a little more focused in my offseason training and getting stronger and faster, and so far it’s worked out.”

Arizona remained four games back of division-leading San Francisco, which lost 4-3 in 13 innings at Cincinnati. The Dodgers are 12½ games off the pace, but things would be a lot worse without Kemp’s numbers.

“I feel like I’m having a bad season because we’re having a bad season,” Kemp said. “I’d feel great if we were in first place and I had these numbers. I’ve just got to keep doing this so we can get back in the race. There’s still a lot of games left to play and there’s still hope for us.”

Ted Lilly (7-10) allowed three runs — two earned — and three hits in five innings for Los Angeles. The home runs he allowed by Roberts and Willie Bloomquist both were solo shots. The left-hander has given up 23, by far the most on the staff.

Notes: Upton has six homers in his past eight games and 21 on the season. … Dodgers LF Juan Rivera doubled his first two times up. … Roberts is 3 for 9 against Lilly, and all of the hits have been home runs.

Tonight’s pitching matchup: Diamondbacks RHP Josh Collmenter (6-5, 2.74) vs. Dodgers LHP Ted Lilly (6-10, 5.08).

Collmenter is returning to the scene of his first career start. On May 14 at Dodger Stadium, he tossed six scoreless innings, giving up just two hits in a game the Diamondbacks won despite being one-hit. … He had a shaky stretch in recent weeks, but he has been effective in his past three starts, allowing just three runs in 21 innings. … All three of those runs came against the Rockies on Saturday, a game he and the Diamondbacks won in a blowout. … The Diamondbacks have had decent success against Lilly in his career. He has a 4.60 ERA in 11 games (nine starts) and has lost both of his starts against them this season, giving up eight runs in 12 2/3 innings. … CF Chris Young is 7 for 21 with four doubles and two home runs in his career against Lilly.

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The Mariners have made their first move of the trade system and have traded outfielder Ryan Langerhans to the Arizona Diamondbacks for cold hard cash. 

The news was first reported by Larry Stone. He said:

Ryan Langerhans will report to Triple-A Reno. He had been hitting .313 for Tacoma. He hit 10 doubles, 16 home runs, and added 37 RBIs. Wily Mo Pena can now fill Langerhans’ AAA roster spot.

As Stone noted, Langerhans, 31, had been hitting .313 for Tacoma and previously had appeared in 117 games in three seasons (2009-2011) with the Mariners. In his 19 games with the Mariners this season, Langerhans hit .173 with 3 HRs.

Langerhans is a career .226 hitter. He’s hit 33 home runs and has 125 RBIs in 591 games over nine seasons.

Pena was picked up by the Mariners on Wednesday after he was released by the Diamondbacks on Sunday. Pena, 29, is a career .251 hitter with 82 HRs, 232 RBIs, and 67 doubles. He hit .196 with five homers in 46 at-bats with Arizona this season before being released. 

SEATTLE – The Seattle Mariners have traded minor-league outfielder Ryan Langerhans to the Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for cash considerations.

The trade was announced on Friday afternoon. Langerhans will report to the Diamondbacks’ Triple-A affiliate in Reno.

Langerhans started the season with the Mariners and played in 19 games, but hit just .173 in limited playing time. He was sent to Triple-A Tacoma, where Langerhans hit .313 in 57 games with 16 homers and 39 RBIs.

The trade opens a roster spot in Tacoma for Wily Mo Pena, whom Seattle acquired earlier this week after he was released by the Diamondbacks organization. Pena hit 21 homers and drove in 63 runs in 63 games for Reno this season.