Let G be a connected graph and \(\alpha \in [0,1)\) be a real number. The \( D_\alpha \) -matrix of G is defined as \(D_\alpha (G)=\alpha Tr(G)+(1-\alpha )D(G)\) , where Tr(G) is the diagonal matrix of vertex transmissions of G and D(G) is the distance matrix of G. The largest eigenvalue of \(D_\alpha (G)\) is called the \( D_\alpha \) -spectral radius of G. For \(\alpha \in [0,\frac{1}{2}]\) , we determine the unique graph with the minimum \(D_\alpha \) -spectral radius among n-vertex graphs with given matching number \(m\le \frac{n}{4}\) , and the unique graph with the minimum \(D_\alpha \) -spectral radius among n-vertex graphs with \(n-2\) pendent vertices. For \(\alpha \in [0,1)\) , we determine the unique graph with the minimum \(D_\alpha \) -spectral radius among n-vertex graphs with \(0 \le r \le n-3\) pendent vertices and the unique graph with the minimum \(D_\alpha \) -spectral radius among n-vertex trees with given maximum degree \( \Delta \ge \lceil \frac{n}{2}\rceil \) .