PHOENIX -- When David Peralta’s line drive landed in the grass in right, allowing Eduardo Escobar to stroll home from third base for a 3-2 walk-off win over the Dodgers on Wednesday afternoon at Chase Field, it felt like the D-backs won more than just one game.

They had come into the game having lost two straight to the Dodgers and 12 of their previous 17. The offense was non-existent for much of the game before they managed to tie the score in the eighth and force extra innings.

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“I think everybody that is sitting here that’s a fan of the Diamondbacks understands how important that game was for us,” D-backs manager Torey Lovullo said. “Especially since we’ve been walking through some very lean times, we’ve been battling through some injuries. We send a crew out there today that gave everything they had and did enough to win the baseball game. It was a tremendous way to finish it and it’s one of those games that you feel like will push you in a very, very positive direction.”

The win gave the D-backs a 3-3 record on their homestand and they boarded their charter flight for Toronto, where they will spend an off-day Thursday before opening a three-game series with the Blue Jays and a 10-game road trip overall. The trip will also include stops in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.

Here are two main takeaways from the just completed homestand:

1) This team is going to battle

The D-backs had been slumping coming into the homestand, and there were two moments during it when it looked like they might begin an absolute free fall.

The first came in the second game of the series with the Mets.

The D-backs had dropped the first game and Jacob deGrom was dominating them through the first six innings of the second before they managed to score a run off him. And after deGrom was forced to leave due to an injury, Arizona scored four in the eighth before winning on a walkoff in the 11th.

Lovullo admitted that midway through that game, he wasn’t sure what direction his team was headed.

Then Wednesday, the D-backs fell behind the Dodgers early and trailed 2-1 in the eighth before Tim Locastro got hit by a pitch and came around to score on Jarrod Dyson’s double.

If the D-backs come up short this year in a bid for the postseason, it’s not going to be because they stopped battling.

2) The kids have some poise

Rookies Jon Duplantier and Taylor Clarke have been thrust into the rotation due to injuries and Zack Godley’s early-season struggles.

While there undoubtedly will be rough stretches for the pair, as there are for any rookie pitchers, so far they seem like they can handle it.

Clarke struggled two starts ago against the Rockies, getting knocked out of the game after two innings. When he had a similarly rough first inning on Tuesday against the Dodgers, he showed that he had learned from that experience and found a way to settle in and get through five innings.

Duplantier has shown great poise in his earlier relief appearances with the team, and in just his second big league start on Wednesday he was able to pitch to the game plan and limit the best offensive team in the National League to just two runs.