Record: 25-35. Pace: 68-94. Change on last season: -7. Change on 2004: +1

I know what you're saying right now. "Really? Three errors? Thirteen Strikeouts? The side was struck out in the bottom of the ninth!?" Yeah, you're probably not the only one wondering what in the world is going on with this team. The boys did manage to muster seven hits and four runs through the first five innings to make things relatively interesting. Unfortunately, the D-Backs only had one base runner beyond that with Roberts walking in the bottom of the sixth. That's zero hits and seven strikeouts from the Arizona offense after the fifth inning. Let's take a look at how it all unfolded:

The game began with a pair of errors by Doug Davis and Ryan Roberts after only three batters. Things settled down from there though and Double D escaped with only one run allowed. Arizona countered with a run in the bottom of the inning with compliments to Stephen Drew with the only 2-out RBI of the game (for the good guys). Davis continued to struggle and manged to hit 100 pitches after only four innings. He finished with the line of six hits, five runs, two earned, three walks, and one strikeout.

After that, not much. The D-Backs cut the lead to one with an impressive string of hits in the bottom of the fifth. With RBIs from Drew and Upton, the score was slimmed to 5 - 4. Vasquez, Rauch, and Pena all put in quality efforts to keep the game intact until Chad Qualls slipped up in the ninth as the Giants tacked on a bit of insurance with a Bengie Molina RBI, his third of the game. It's interesting to take note in the fact that our bullpen fairs well when the team is trailing.

Like I said though, nothing really happened thereafter. It was... ugh. Let's just wrap this up. Stephen Drew is credited as the only D-Back to have a multi-hit game while he exteneds the hitting streak to fourteen games. He's batting .388 for the brief month of June with five doubles and six RBIs. The Chris's, Young and Snyder, were the only Arizona starters to not have a hit but both managed to reach base with a walk.

Thanks again to Jim for allowing me to write tonight's recap. Sorry that it ended up a little shorter than the usual. I'm tired.

Fangraphs and community stuff by the eds.

Fangraphs.com is currently broken, with no graph available for yesterday's game. Pending it's return, I will describe it as follows. It started in the middle, went down, came back to the middle, went seriously down, almost came back to the middle and then gradually went down to the bottom. You should thank me for sparing you all the gory details.

[Click to enlarge, at fangraphs.com]
Master of his domain: Stephen Drew, +20.1%
Honorable mention: Jon Rauch, +11.7%
God-emperor of suck: Doug Davis, -30.6%
Dishonorable mentions: Lopez, -12.5%; Montero, -11.0%; Young, -10.7%

Present and accounted for in the Gameday Thread were sayheyupton, hotclaws, snakecharmer, pygalgia, DbacksSkins, Jim McLennan, ASUJon, luckycc, kishi, 4 Corners Fan, emilylovesthedbacks, soco, mrssoco, Sprankton, Scrbl, Muu, pepperdinedevil, TwinnerA, Pyromnc, and venomfan. Post count was led by the usual suspects -- DbacksSkins, kishi, and soco, 'Skins reaching nearly 200, and the other two being the only others above 50.

Day game tomorrow, with first pitch coming at 12:35.