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Today’s Lineups WHITE SOX DIAMONDBACKS Andrew Benintendi – DH Ketel Marte – 2B Munetaka Murakami – 1B Corbin Carroll – RF Miguel Vargas – 3B Geraldo Perdomo – SS Colson Montgomery – SS Adrian Del Castillo – C Everson Pereira – RF Lourdes Gurriel – LF Sam Antonacci – LF Jose Fernandez – DH Chase […]
The White Sox snapped their series drought over the weekend, taking two of three from the Athletics for their first series win since early April against the Blue Jays. They now head out to the desert to take on the Arizona Diamondbacks for a three-game set. In some good news, the South Siders are shockingly […]
The Diamondbacks once again come out of another series taking 2 of 3 from the defending AL Champs. After just coming back from a road trip with a bunch of 2-1 series wins spilling out of their car onto the driveway, they continue their habit of trading a loss for two wins. One can only […]
Inspiration. The following question inspired me. It was from the Snake Pit Roundtable. “One thing that isn’t is Ketel Marte and Geraldo Perdomo. What do they need to change to get the bats woken up?” — Blake Stokes After looking at Geraldo Perdomo’s batting strengths, I wrote, “Geraldo Perdomo is doing nearly everything excellently. Perhaps if […]
Diamondbacks News Jose Fernandez, Ildemaro Vargas still getting good use out of Carlos Santana’s Gold Glove by Alex Weiner [Arizona Sports] Arizona Diamondbacks first baseman Carlos Santana was taken off the field due to an adductor strain, but his glove is still being put to good use. That’s because versatile infielders Ildemaro Vargas and Jose […]
Which team is projected as better? On 20 April, FanGraphs projected the Diamondbacks to win more games (82 vs 68). Only the Rockies were projected to win less games than the White Sox. The Diamondbacks are better in four top-level comparisons. White Sox Player to Watch. Munetaka Murakami is a player worth watching. Power Batter. […]
The Diamondbacks continued to impress on a 6-3 roadtrip. What’s the key for this success to continue? James: Get healthy. Stay healthy. That’s a solid first step. Arizona’s biggest opponent over the last year has been the IL. Also, Michael Soroka has to continue to be the Michael Soroka that he has been, resembling when […]
Recaps [AZ Central] Nelson rocked, Carroll exits early in Toronto rout – Nelson’s outing unraveled almost instantaneously. Each of the first seven Blue Jays hitters recorded hits, doing so after just 20 pitches. At that point, it was 4-0, and only three of those first seven hits were well-struck. After walking No. 8 hitter Myles […]
The San Diego Padres (5-1) and Arizona Diamondbacks (4-2) had strong weeks to keep pace in the National League West, but the big news of the week was the Padres about to be sold for the staggering price of $3.9 billion. The sale price shatters the previous record of $2.475 billion, which is what Steve […]
Game three of three with the Diamondbacks. I’m putting the GameThreads together before leaving on holiday, which seemed like a better idea before I started doing it. Normally, a GameThread is pretty quick and easy, but when you are doing 20-some in a row, it loses some of the fun. Thankfully, I’m near the end. […]
Today’s Lineups BLUE JAYS DIAMONDBACKS Nathan Lukes – RF Ketel Marte – 2B Ernie Clement – 2B Corbin Carroll – RF Vladimir Guerrero – 1B Jose Fernandez – SS Jesus Sanchez – LF Lourdes Gurriel – LF Eloy Jimenez – DH Adrian Del Castillo – DH Andres Gimenez – SS Ildemaro Vargas – 1B Kazuma […]
Team News Corbin in the clutch! Carroll belts 4th career slam to lift D-backs to series win Since April 4, the bullpen has allowed 12 earned runs in 46 innings, that’s a 2.35 ERA. “They’ve been really good,” Carroll said. “It seems like whoever comes out of that gate is ready to go from pitch […]
You never know what you’re going to see when you go to a ballgame, both good and bad. Sometimes both in the same night. One of the greatest individual pitching performances in program history ended up being for naught in Arizona’s 11-1, 8-inning loss to Kansas State on Saturday night at Hi Corbett Field. Smith […]
Another Saturday game, another Zac Gallen start, another swirling bit of anxiety in the gullet as we waited to see which Zac we were going to get today. I remember the heyday of Gallen’s good times, when he really was the unquestioned ace of the rotation, rather than simply being the guy who happens to […]
Game two of three with the Diamondbacks. I was looking at ‘attractions in Phoenix’. Camelback Mountain, which does look nice for hike (for other people, not for me, I’ve hiked enough to know I don’t enjoy it, and adding climbing doesn’t enhance the appeal). It is one of the “New 7 Wonders of Nature”. There […]
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Arizona baseball had won five of its last seven games, which included three road wins, entering Friday evening’s matchup with Kansas State. In the first game of the series, Arizona (14-23, 5-11 Big 12) battled in a low-scoring affair but fell short in a 2-1 loss to Kansas State (24-12, 8-8 Big 12). The Wildcats […]
Game Summary After a long and successful road trip, the Diamondbacks kicked off this six game homestand with a nearly drama-free victory over the defending AL Champs. It felt like a downright walk in the park to have a 3-run lead going into the 9th inning. What sorcery is this?! The Snakes didn’t play mistake-free […]
The Jays are in beautiful, downtown Phoenix, Arizona (well, I don’t know if it is beautiful or not), for three games against the Diamondbacks. Yet another park with a retractable roof. I remember how strange it was when the Jays had the retractable roof, all those years ago. They had real grass in Phoenix until […]
Today’s Lineups BLUE JAYS DIAMONDBACKS Davis Schneider – LF Ketel Marte – 2B Daulton Varsho – CF Corbin Carroll – RF Vladimir Guerrero – 1B Geraldo Perdomo – SS Jesus Sanchez – RF Jose Fernandez – DH Lenyn Sosa – DH Nolan Arenado – 3B Andres Gimenez – SS Ildemaro Vargas – 1B Kazuma Okamoto […]
The Diamondbacks come into this series as one of the hottest teams in baseball. They’ve won seven out of their last ten, have only lost one series this season. They’re on fire. Unfortunately, they are exactly the third hottest team in baseball. The other two are directly in front of them in the NL West […]
Diamondbacks News (SI.com) Diamondbacks Trade Hard-Throwing Reliever to Brewers Fernandez was signed by the D-backs to a minor league contract and given an invite to spring training. At the time he was part of an effort by the team to bring in a number of “high-octane” arms, hoping to find a Diamondback in the rough. (Yahoo! Sports) […]
Introduction Believe it or not, but we are a little over 10% of the way through the baseball season with most of the teams having played 18 or 19 games so far. That’s not enough time or opportunities to make any kind of definitive statements about any player or team, but it does feel like […]
Sometimes you need a clickbaity title for fun, and sometimes the extreme title is actually justified. This might be one of those times. In the early going, there aren’t a tremendous amount of statistics that mean much of anything, or at least that mean enough to re-evaluate what we think about a player. As an […]
The Diamondbacks may have got Merrill Kelly back while in Baltimore. But Arizona still currently have a full dozen players on the injured list. They are evenly split between hitters and pitchers, but two-third of them are on the extended 60-day injured list. With an off-day today, I thought it was a good opportunity to […]