Diamondbacks 3, Twins 2: Daniel Hudson pitches Arizona to a Post rapture sweep.
by BattleMoses on May 22, 2011 8:00 PM EDT
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PrintRecord: 23-23. Pace: 81-81. Change on last season: +3
Okay, so going into this game I thought Liriano was going to DESTROY us. While he didn't; he still did pretty good. Also, a little disclaimer. This is my first recap and it's probably horrific so I apologize in advance.
Although the Twins Ben Revere led off with a single, the Twins failed to capitalize in the first inning. Jason Plouffe grounded out, followed by Jason Kubel striking out looking and Mourneau flying out to right to end the inning. The Dbacks began the first inning with a backwards K from Willeh B followed by a Roberts walk and an Upton fly out; CY then walked and directly after Juan Mirand K'ed like a foo. Dan Hudson had a pretty easy time in the top of the 2nd as he sat down three in a row by getting Danny Valencia to ground out and Delmon Young and Rene "I wish I was Joe Mauer" Rivera to fly out. Easy peasy half for King Huddy.
The Dbacks half of the second starts off with X Nady legging out a grounder to third for a single. It's quite surprising, isn't it? After that the Dbacks get sat three in a row. The top half of the third was pretty uneventful outside of a single for Liriano. Another easy inning for King Huddy. The bottom half of the inning was sorta derailed by over aggressive base running. Willie Bloomquist singles, but gets caught stealing - Ryro flys out and Upton Ks swinging. King Huddy keeps on rolling 3 up 3 down in the top of the 4th.
Chris Young leads off the half inning with a fly out to left then Miranda scorches a ball to CF for a HR. The X man walks, KJ flys out to deep right field and Huddy singles to left - Huddy getting it done in every way possible, you gotta love that. Willie B grounds out. Delmon Young singles and then Rene Rivera does his best Joe Mauer impression and hits a double with Young moving up to third. Francisco Liriano grounds out to score Delmon Young from third, then Ben Revere grounds out to Ryro to end the inning.
Plouffe does an Eric Byrnes, Jason Kube doubles, Mourneau flies out and then Valencia grounds out. Bottom of the 6th and X Nady flies out. KJ Lines out, Hector Blanco singles and then Huddy hits a ground out to get Blanco at 2nd. Top of the 7th: Delmon finally hits his first home run, to lead off the inning, tying the game at 2-2. Rene Rivera strikes out Alexi Casilla singles on a bunt to third. Denard Span pinch hits for Francisco Liriano and flies out. Alexi Casilla then gets thrown out. Bottom of the 7th: Alex Burnett replaces Francisco Liriano then Willie B immediately doubles and gets to third on a fielding error by Revere. RyRo hits a sac fly to score Willie B from third. Jup then flies out and Cy grounds out.
Top of the 8th: Ben Revere singles on a ground ball to second Trevor Plouffe lays a bunt to third and forces Revere out at 2nd; Mourneau and Kubel strike out. Bottom 8th: Dusty Hughes takes the place of Alex Burnett. Dusty then proceeds to hit Miranda with a pitch, which apparently injured Miranda since he was replaced by Parra. X Nady moves to 1st and Parra goes to Left Field. X Nady GIDPs, KJ hits a double and Blanco gets a IBB. Sean Burroughs pinch hits for King Huddy and grounds out to Second. Top of the 9th: J.J. "The Easy Button" Putz gets three easy Button outs for his 12th straight save.
WOOO WOOO DBACKS SWEEEEEEPPPPPP. All in all it was a pretty awesome game. I was glad to see Hudson go 8 innings.
[Click to enlarge, at Fangraphs.com]
The Chosen One: Daniel Hudson, +30.2%
Among the 144,000: J.J. Putz: +17.4%
Harold Camping: Justin Upton. -7.3%
A quiet Gameday Thread: guess everyone else got raptured. Rockkstarr12 led all posters with the other podium spots going to NASCARbernet and piratedan7. Also present: kishi, Dallas D'Back Fan, Jim McLennan, hotclaws, txzona, xmet, BattleMoses, emilylovesthedbacks, 4 Corners Fan, Turambar, Bryan J. Boltik, mrssoco, TinySarabia, Cardscrazy247, brian custer, Husk, baltimor, Jdub220, Bcawz, JoeCB1991, Backin'the'Backs and dima1109. No sign of a Comment of the Day from battlemoses, so it goes by default to the only green one, from hotclaws:
apparently by doing a sailor’s hornpipe.
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Great recap, Niiko!
You put a lot of enthusiasm into this…way to go :)
"There are 3 types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, & those who wonder what happens." -Tommy Lasorda
"When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn." ~Tom Landry
I love that movie
"There are 3 types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, & those who wonder what happens." -Tommy Lasorda
"When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn." ~Tom Landry
by Rockkstarr12 on May 22, 2011 8:39 PM EDT up reply actions
Nice work on the recap.
And winning streaks are fun. Onto Denver!
"If you give a Russian schoolboy a chart of heavenly bodies, he will make corrections." Dostoevsky
This team may not be great
and may be no better than last year, but they’re at least a lot more fun.
We'll see in this next series
That will be our test
Wagner Mateo will be the future of baseball!!!
by Bryan J. Boltik on May 22, 2011 11:45 PM EDT up reply actions
The team is definitely better than last year
The loss of Haren, Reynolds, LaRoche, Snyder and unnamed others is more than offset by the addition of Hudson, Hernandez, Putz, Miranda, Bloomquist, Blanco and Roberts version 2. The is a more balanced team, in spite of still to be dealt with dead wood.
Agreed
The overall rotation is improving, and it will be interesting to see what happens when Duke comes back and pitches himself into shape.
"If you give a Russian schoolboy a chart of heavenly bodies, he will make corrections." Dostoevsky
by NASCARbernet on May 23, 2011 12:11 AM EDT up reply actions
Gibson and Towers deserve credit as well
Talent-wise, our players aren’t much better than last year’s squad. The mentality in the clubhouse is different — they’re fighting this year.
I go away for three games
and suddenly, we have a six game winning streak. I love it!
WE WANT DUKE! WE WANT DUKE! etc. etc.
by imstillhungry95 on May 23, 2011 12:24 AM EDT reply actions
I already
gave that possibility great though. Before I left, we were already on a three game winning streak, so the Dbacks won with me, and without me. In other words, sorry, I’m staying.
WE WANT DUKE! WE WANT DUKE! etc. etc.
by imstillhungry95 on May 23, 2011 10:38 AM EDT up reply actions
The last time I entered a GDT
It was the bottom of the 8th on Saturday’s game. So I think I’ll stick around when I’m available
Bad doormat! No stock options!
To avoid jinxing anything
My last time i participated in game threads was our last lost. So in that case, ill see you all in a week
This is my signature.. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My signature is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. My signature, without me, is useless. Without my signature, I am useless...
Ciao.
"If you give a Russian schoolboy a chart of heavenly bodies, he will make corrections." Dostoevsky
by NASCARbernet on May 23, 2011 1:46 AM EDT up reply actions
One point of note
Over 98,000 at Chase for the three-game series. Seems a pretty good number: contrast less than 83.000 for the last weekend series, which was also against a mid-West producer of snowbirds, in the Cubs. Amazing what posting a few wins will do – as well as a garden gnome. :-)
"I'm confused."
"Yeah, well. It's a big club. We should get t-shirts."
I went to all 3 this weekend
and was surprised the attendance of every game. It was a good atmosphere despite my displeasure with the amount of Twins fans that showed up.
by Backin'the'Backs on May 23, 2011 3:24 PM EDT up reply actions
I had no problems with the Twins fans at the 2 games I went to
Every one that I met or even just talked to briefly were great. They were polite and enthusiastic and gave our team and the ballpark lots of great compliments.
"There are 3 types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, & those who wonder what happens." -Tommy Lasorda
"When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn." ~Tom Landry
by Rockkstarr12 on May 23, 2011 7:32 PM EDT up reply actions
No apologies needed.
I was sure there would be some guys missing post rapture. The DBs lucked out on that one. ;)
Reg Moore
"By mid-19th century, baseball's inventor, Alexander Cartwright and others made sure the game had rules, many of which are still in play today.
In 1845 Cartwright drew up plans for a baseball field, and a year later the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey became home to the first recorded baseball game."
"The earliest baseballs were very lightweight and soft, were smaller than the modern baseball, and were made of yarn or string surrounding a core covered by a single piece of leather stitched together." http://baseball.epicsports.com/baseball-history.html
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