Recaps:
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[DBacks.com] Galarraga may be nearing end of his rope - I think everyone is nearing the end of their rope with Galarraga, too.
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[FS Arizona] D-backs' Galarraga has another rough night - Galarraga "leads the major leagues in home runs allowed and ranks 115th among 118 ERA qualifiers". Ouch.
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[AZ Central] Bad outing against San Diego Padres irks Arizona Diamondbacks' Armando Galarraga - "I'm disappointed for this start, not for the rest of the season." The question is if there is a rest of the season, Armando.
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[LA Times] Padres trample Diamondbacks - And in that error-filled inning, the team pretty much just sprawled out on the ground to the help the Padres do the trampling.
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[DBacks.com] Bloomquist 'getting closer' to return to Arizona - We're all waiting, Willie...
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[SB Nation Arizona] Arizona Diamondbacks Drop Strikeouts But Still Can't Score - Well, it's not like the problem last year was that we didn't score.
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[Venom Strikes] State of the Arizona Diamondbacks: First Quarter - 40 games in, how does the team look so far? I might grade the bullpen a little higher, but the rest of it looks about right.
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[The D-blog] Upton All-Star Campaign Receives Huge Celebrity Boost - I'm conflicted on this. I mean, sure, great that J-Up gets the publicity, but... Is this how we want to win? No confirmation to reports that, after reading the tweet, Troy Tulowitzki locked himself in his room for three hours.
Around Baseball:
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[Beyond the Box Score] A Reminder That Elite Pitchers Don't Walk Guys - Walks- the thing that separates a good pitcher from a great one?
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[Baseball Nation] Astros Vs. Braves: Brian McCann Hits Game-Tying And Game-Winning Home Runs - An interesting note about Alfonso Marquez refusing to give a batter a free base for sticking out an arm to get hit. Painful place to get hit by a pitch for nothing, too. And, as Wailord pointed out on Twitter, Brian McCann had a WPA of +85.5% today. If you could award the W to a batter instead of the pitcher, that would be a performance to deserve it.
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[SI.com] The Worst Pitching Performance Ever - Fourteen runs? In a relief appearance? Wooow. The most runs allowed by a reliever since World War II.
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[Big League Stew] The Mall of America’s unusual tribute to Harmon Killebrew - Kind of a cool thing to do for one of baseball's greats.