LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Dodgers have been prepping their new show for about three months now, and were oh so eager to show it to former teammate Zack Greinke.

He was not exactly a captive audience.

The Dodgers not only scorched Greinke for five home runs in a 10-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks, but the guy that replaced him as the top right-hander on the staff had an impressive showing as well. Kenta Maeda pitched into the seventh inning and picked up his 14th victory of the season.

A club that relied on the pitching of Clayton Kershaw and Greinke in recent seasons has morphed into an offensive beast, led by rookie Corey Seager. Last season, Seager and Greinke were teammates for just a month plus the playoffs, and Greinke had to feel like Monday night lasted even longer.

Seager had three hits in his first three at-bats, including a three-run home run in the fifth inning that helped break the game open. But Greinke knows what Seager is all about and not just because of their short time together last season. When Greinke defeated the Dodgers on June 13 at Phoenix, Seager blasted a 435-foot home run over the pool in right-center.

Dodgers fans watch as Zack Greinke departs in the fifth inning having allowed eight runs and five homers. Gary A. Vasquez/USA TODAY Sports

“Greinke is really good and obviously he has been one of the best pitchers for a while,” Seager said. “It’s one of those things that it kind of locks you in a little more. You have to kind of be on your game. We battled, we took some good pitches, we got into counts that were more into our favor and we put some good swings on balls.”

Also going deep Monday were Adrian Gonzalez, Joc Pederson, Justin Turner and Yasmani Grandal. The five players who went deep are the top five home run hitters on the club, and with Pederson hitting his 20th of the season, the Dodgers now have four players at 20 or higher.

“I think that if you look at one or two guys who can pose a threat, you have an ability to pitch around them,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “But when you’ve got one-through-eight who can do some damage, and four guys with 20-plus homers, there is a lot of stress in our lineup. Any pitcher trying to pitch against us, it’s a tough lineup to navigate through. You don’t want to make that one mistake and fortunately tonight, when there were some mistakes made, we took advantage of it.”

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A somewhat disappointing team in the first half, the Dodgers like their chances now, especially if they can keep slugging their way through National League pitching. And it won’t hurt if Kershaw can lead the pitching charge once again. The three-time Cy Young Award winner is set to come off the disabled list Friday at Miami.

It has been a long time since the Dodgers have felt like a complete team, and that feeling could be back by the weekend in South Florida.

Kershaw last stalked a mound 71 days ago, but the Dodgers managed to not feel sorry for themselves the entire time. The offensive revival actually started a little before Kershaw’s last pitch on June 26 and has continued to play nearly on a nightly basis.

The predictions were that the Dodgers would collapse without their sturdiest support beam, but instead they have gone 36-24 in that time, including Monday’s victory. They have propelled themselves from eight games behind the San Francisco Giants to four in front, a season high, and in crunch time no less.

“Anytime you get into September and it’s a pennant race, it feels great,” Gonzalez said. “You get excited to come to the ballpark and get ready to play a game. We are in the mindset of one game at a time and do what we can today to win. Tomorrow we will do what we can to win then. Just continue to try and win series. That’s what we keep talking about and give everything we have each and every day.”

And when the Dodgers face the Giants six more times down the stretch, Kershaw is in line to pitch against them twice. The confidence seems to be spilling out over the sides and onto the floor at this juncture.

Ever the optimist, Roberts went out of character in saying before the game that Greinke might have the advantage on the Dodgers because of his intelligence and “cerebral” approach. He was right, though, in figuring his team would bring plenty of energy to the proceedings.

Greinke had never before given up five home runs in a start and when he left after 4⅔ innings, he had given up eight runs on nine hits. Instead of relying on his plus-changeup, Greinke looked to be fighting his way through with a fastball that tailed out over the plate too many times.

If Greinke failed to pitch like the foe Maeda expected, the Dodgers’ 28-year-old rookie still refused to relent. Maeda gave up a single to the Diamondbacks’ Jean Segura to open the game, then retired 18 consecutive batters before Chris Owings singled to lead off the seventh.

Roberts said it looked as if Maeda raised his game for the matchup, but if he did, the right-hander refused to admit it.

“I knew going into the game that it wasn’t going to be a blowout win, so I was surprised that we were able to score a lot today,” Maeda said through an interpreter. “Because of that I was very careful the first few innings.”

Once the Dodgers started launching rockets, Maeda’s tension subsided, and with a month remaining in a long season, he was able to deliver one of his best outings.

“I think it was one of my best,” Maeda said. “I felt like I had my fastball today throughout the game.”

And those five home runs to support the cause must have helped.

“Definitely,” he said with a grin.