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LOS ANGELES -- For the first time in more than three years, the Arizona Diamondbacks have an opportunity to capture a series at Dodger Stadium.Jean Segura hit a leadoff homer and rookie Braden Shipley won his first major league game, helping the Diamondbacks to a 4-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night before 49,540.Saturdays win occurred one night after the Dodgers used a five-run rally to wipe out a four-run deficit in the seventh inning for a 9-7 decision over the Diamondbacks.Arizona won for only the fifth time in the last 23 games at Dodger Stadium. They have gone 7-0-1 in eight series against the Dodgers in L.A. since winning one in June 2013.Shipley (1-1) played a prominent role in the outcome. Shipley blanked Los Angeles for six innings, allowing five hits with four strikeouts and a walk. It was a stark contrast from his debut on July 25 when Shipley was knocked around for six runs in 5 1/3 innings in a loss to the Milwaukee Brewers.Super excited. Cant take all of the credit. Defense played great behind me all night, said Shipley, who became the seventh Diamondbacks pitcher to toss six or more scoreless innings within his first two career starts. Cant say enough about our defense tonight.Shipleys ability to keep his pitches down resulted in the Dodgers hitting just three fly balls against him, two of them coming off the bat of rookie shortstop Corey Seager.Just sticking with my plan, Shipley said. Staying down in the zone and using my sinker effectively and thats kind of what I knew I had to do coming into tonight, just to be able to work down in the zone and mix pitches and use that sinker.Diamondbacks left-hander Patrick Corbin (4-9, 5.31 ERA) will face Dodgers right-hander Bud Norris (6-9, 4.27) in the series finale on Sunday. Corbin is 0-2 with a 5.51 ERA in four starts against the Dodgers this season. Corbin is 2-1 with a 3.35 ERA in five career starts at Dodger Stadium. He has allowed a run or fewer three times.Norris picked up his first win against the Diamondbacks the last time he faced them on July 15 at Chase Field, where he allowed four runs and eight hits in five innings of a 13-7 Dodgers victory. Norris fanned five and did not issue a walk while throwing 98 pitches.In nine career games (six starts) against the Diamondbacks, Norris is 1-7 with a 12.65 ERA. He has struck out 27 batters in 26 1/3 innings.Norris is hoping for a better fate than teammate Scott Kazmir, who had not lost in his last 13 outings -- going 7-0 during the run. Kazmir (9-4) struck out seven, walked none and surrendered four runs and eight hits in 6 2/3 innings as his streak ended in Saturdays loss. He hadnt lost a start in July since 2010.We just let this one slip away, said Kazmir, who threw 109 pitches (77 strikes). Giving up a three-spot early in the game and kind of setting the tone. Shipley was great out there. He really pitched well. 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The New Westminster, B.C., native plowed three yards into the end zone for the last score of a heated, see-saw battle between the two teams with the best records in the CFL.England are braced for a seismic explosion when Semesa Rokoduguni and Nemani Nadolo collide upon Fijis visit to Twickenham on Saturday.The Pacific Islanders have spoken of the special treatment Rokoduguni and Nathan Hughes will be given due to their Fijian origins after both opted to represent the Red Rose on grounds of residency.Rokoduguni is the Aviva Premierships joint leading try-scorer and the competitions form wing, while Nadolo is a 65, 22-stone giant cast in the image of Jonah Lomu.There could be a seismic explosion on the far side with Nadolo and Rokoduguni running into each other!! England scrum coach Neal Hatley said.Fiji are obviously very motivated and wed like to think that Roko and Nathan are motivated to play for England. Im sure that it adds a little spice amongst them as individuals, but theyve been brilliant the whole week in terms of getting ready to play.Rokoduguni will make only his second Test appearance on Saturday having been dropped after a 24-21 defeat by New Zealand two years ago.Mixed messages followed when Stuart Lancasters regime explained his exclusion with Rokoduguni returning to Bath on injury grounds, only to then play the following weekend.Eddie Jones has suggested he was overwhelmed by the occasion and the way he was handled on his debut, so has bided his time carefully before selecting the visit of Fiji for hhis comeback.ddddddddddddThe 29-year-old has beaten more defenders, made more clean breaks and gained more metres than any rival in the Premiership this season, but Hatley insists it is his deeds off the pitch that have truly inspired his England teammates.A lance corporal and reconnaissance tank soldier of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards in the British Army, he completed a tour of Afghanistan in 2011.Ive seen first-hand the knock on effect that Rokos life experiences have had on the players at Bath, said Hatley, who was an assistant coach at the Recreation Ground.He has got proper life experience, of sitting [in] and driving a tank, which no-one has had any experience of inside the group. The players draw inspiration from that and the value that he brings with that sort of experience is definitely reflected in some of the conversations that weve had during the week.What I really liked about what he did when he was dropped by England, and obviously I was a Bath coach at the time, is that he came straight back to the club and played on the weekend.Hes been fantastic over the last 18 months and hes had a really good start to this season. Hes probably been Baths out and out straight weapon from an attacking point of view. ' ' '