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Baseball is undoubtedly a team sport. In fact, I would argue it is the most intensely team-based sport among the major North American sports. Unlike leagues like the NFL or NBA, collecting a few stars on a baseball team can only make a marginal difference. If you have any doubt, baseball history is replete with […]
Today’s Lineups PIRATES DIAMONDBACKS Oneil Cruz – CF Geraldo Perdomo – SS Brandon Lowe – 2B Ketel Marte – 2B Bryan Reynolds – LF Corbin Carroll – RF Ryan O’Hearn – RF Adrian Del Castillo – DH Nick Gonzales – 3B Ildemaro Vargas – 1B Marcell Ozuna – DH Lourdes Gurriel – LF Spencer Horwitz […]
Diamondbacks News Rodriguez Ends Snakes’ Run of Poor StartsEduardo Rodriguez didn’t just turn in a quality start, the veteran left-hander tossed seven full shutout innings, making the night easy for the struggling offense who then responded by posting nine runs. Yliber Diaz, Jose Mejia Named AZ MiLB Pitcher and Player of AprilDiaz may not be […]
On the same day that manager Torey Lovullo called the entire starting rotation into his office to tell them they needed to pick up the pace, Dbacks starter Eduardo Rodriguez did just that and then some. ERod put this team on his back tonight shutting down the Pirates offense taking some of the pressure off […]
Today’s Lineups PIRATES DIAMONDBACKS Oneil Cruz – CF Geraldo Perdomo – SS Nick Gonzales – 2B Ketel Marte – 2B Bryan Reynolds – RF Corbin Carroll – RF Ryan O’Hearn – 1B Adrian Del Castillo – DH Marcell Ozuna – DH Ildemaro Vargas – 1B Konnor Griffin – SS Lourdes Gurriel – LF Jake Mangum […]
Inspiration. In the game thread on 1 May, there was some doubt about the sustainability of the Diamondbacks’ performance (16 wins, 14 losses before the game started). The game was close, with the Diamondbacks losing by one run. For whatever reason, the Diamondbacks are not pitching well in the first inning. With my optimistic viewpoint, […]
Diamondbacks News Diamondbacks’ Ildemaro Vargas named NL Player of the Month by Tyler Drake [Arizona Sports] The honor comes a week after Vargas took home NL Player of the Week. Vargas, who just saw his 27-game hitting streak end over the weekend, has been on a tear this season. Over 22 games in April, Vargas slashed […]
Lovullo is an idiot. “Why don’t the diamondbacks dfa lovulululu. He’s an idiot.” Such a thoughtful phrase might have come from a nowadays philosopher. Something like Kant, but reflectioning on baseball instead of economics. But, no, it was Zekedos2 on mlbtraderumors.com, commenting on the article that Aramis García was DFAd by the Diamondbacks after reinstating […]
Well, that was a rough road-trip, Arizona going 1-5 – don’t forget, the Mexico City games officially counted as “home” ones for the D-backs. I do wonder if playing at an altitude of over seven thousand feet carried a detrimental effect forward, like playing at Coors Field on steroids. The Padres have also looked shaky […]
Recaps [AZ Central] Starting pitching tanks again, Diamondbacks swept by the Chicago Cubs – Right-hander Merrill Kelly was hit hard for the third consecutive start, allowing six runs in 4 1/3 innings, and the Diamondbacks lost, 8-4, to the Chicago Cubs, who completed a three-game sweep on Sunday, May 3, at Wrigley Field. The loss […]
This is my first guest recap on this new (well, since last summer) format. Let’s see how this goes, a bit different than how I usually do things. Today it will be Merrill Kelly against Matt Boyd. One March 30th of last year, he went 5 innings and did not give up a run, but […]
Today’s Lineups DIAMONDBACKS CUBS Ketel Marte – 2B Nico Hoerner – 2B Geraldo Perdomo – SS Moises Ballesteros – DH Corbin Carroll – RF Alex Bregman – 3B Ildemaro Vargas – 1B Ian Happ – LF Nolan Arenado – 3B Seiya Suzuki – RF Lourdes Gurriel – LF Michael Busch – 1B Gabriel Moreno – […]
Team News Vargas’ hit streak snapped at 27 games in D-backs’ shutout loss “I think [it] was awesome to see the [streak] in person,” pitcher Ryne Nelson said. “I’ve never seen anything like that. But just a guy like him, what he brings to this clubhouse, he’s always happy, he’s always smiling, he’s always having […]
And, so, it ends. By going 0-for-4 today, Vargas’s streak ended at 27 games. That’s still the second longest in franchise history. You have to go all the way back to the early stages of the franchise’s sophomore season in 1999, to find the only bigger streak. Club legend Luis Gonzalez reached 30 games between […]
Well, here we are again. It’s Kentucky Derby Day, but for some mysterious reason they decided that that race isn’t going to start until 6:57pm Eastern Time, and we were in Chicago playing another early game because apparently it is simply too cold to play baseball on the western shore of Lake Michigan once the […]
Today’s Lineups DIAMONDBACKS CUBS Ketel Marte – 2B Michael Busch – 1B Geraldo Perdomo – SS Moises Ballesteros – DH Corbin Carroll – RF Alex Bregman – 3B Ildemaro Vargas – 1B Ian Happ – LF Lourdes Gurriel – LF Seiya Suzuki – RF Nolan Arenado – DH Pete Crow-Armstrong – CF Jose Fernandez – […]
Diamondbacks News Ildemaro Extends Streak, Gallen Implodes in Cubs Narrow WinIldemaro entered May in emphatic fashion, going 4-for-4 to raise his league leading batting average to .404. On the other side of things, Zac Gallen didn’t make it out of the third inning, allowing six earned runs. The bullpen slammed the door shut and the […]
Introduction There’s a baseball maxim that says, “You can’t win the division in April, but you can lose it.” I couldn’t find who the quote is originally attributed to, but there are plenty of former players and managers that could have said something like that. It also has the added benefit of being both internally […]
Game Summary The Diamondbacks rough road trip continued with this 1-run loss on a cold, windy day in Wrigley, but at least the Snakes showed us some life by fighting back after falling down big early again. Zac Gallen was not sharp at all, continuing the trend of D-backs’ starters not being able to find […]
Today’s Lineups DIAMONDBACKS CUBS Geraldo Perdomo – SS Nico Hoerner – 2B Ildemaro Vargas – 2B Moises Ballesteros – DH Corbin Carroll – RF Alex Bregman – 3B Adrian Del Castillo – DH Ian Happ – LF Gabriel Moreno – C Seiya Suzuki – RF Jose Fernandez – 1B Michael Busch – 1B Nolan Arenado […]
Diamondbacks News (Sporting News) Diamondbacks’ James McCann sets absurd position player pitching record McCann has set a mark by pitching more times before the end of April as a position player than anyone in MLB history, according to Baseball Reference’s Jessica Brand. The long-time major league catcher has already thrown in four games, including Thursday’s […]
The Cubs and the Diamondbacks are possibly rivals for a wild-card berth into the playoffs. On 27 April, FanGraphs projected them to win 86 and 82 games. This series could possibly decide which team reaches the playoffs. The Cubs were recently playing hot, with a 10 game winning streak through 24 April. It ended with […]
If you had told me before the series that James McCann would throw out runners in two of the three games, that would have told you all you needed to know about how it would go for the Diamondbacks. Arizona’s starting pitching skid continued on Thursday, as the once red-hot Michael Soroka unraveled against Milwaukee’s […]
April results Ah, the joy of Opening Day, hope springing eternal and all that. Except, this poll came after the first series against Los Angeles was already in the books, and that acted as a stiff reality check. For the Diamondbacks were swept in the three-game series. There were positives: two of the games were […]
Today’s Lineups DIAMONDBACKS BREWERS Geraldo Perdomo – SS Garrett Mitchell – CF Ketel Marte – 2B Brice Turang – 2B Corbin Carroll – RF William Contreras – C Adrian Del Castillo – DH Jake Bauers – 1B Ildemaro Vargas – 1B Tyler Black – DH Lourdes Gurriel – LF Luis Rengifo – 3B Nolan Arenado […]