Goldie 2, Stanton 3: At least one Marlin soars
It's a truism in baseball that there's always one guy on the other team about whom you say, "Don't let this guy beat you." Well, "that guy" beat the Diamondbacks tonight. Twice.
It's a truism in baseball that there's always one guy on the other team about whom you say, "Don't let this guy beat you." Well, "that guy" beat the Diamondbacks tonight. Twice.
They moved the fences in at Petco this year, but you wouldn't notice by the D-backs performance. For the first time in 10 series, we didn't score more than four runs in any game, and the Padres swept us as a result - they're now only two games back.
The Diamondbacks drop the first of three at Petco as Eric Stults decided to pitch like Tom Glavine with werewolf blood.
There may not have been any fights or HBPs traded, but with thirty two hits scattered across twelve innings, the Diamondbacks and the Dodgers still provided some fireworks.
The Diamondbacks had beaten the Dodgers in the five previous times they had faced Clayton Kershaw, with Kershaw taking the loss in four. Could they run the streak to six? Sure. But it'd take a seriously late rally to do so.
The first five batters Tyler Skaggs faced today, all reached base, and things didn't get much better, as the Giants took the rubber game on Baxter's Birthday at Chase Field.
The Arizona Diamondbacks fell to the San Francisco Giants on Saturday night by a score of 10 to 5. The Giants scored six runs in the fourth, the Diamobdbacks scored four runs in the sixth, and a ninth inning rally fell five runs short.
The Diamondbacks have relied on Goldschmidt and Corbin so far to stay in first in the NL West, and it was these two that delivered again to get a victory over the division foe from San Francisco.
Ian Kennedy suffered the worst loss of his career tonight, allowing 10 runs and three home runs in four innings. The St. Louis Cardinals had a 12-2 lead at one point, but the Diamondbacks battled back to make it close. In the end, they lost 12-8.
Paul Goldschmidt hit his second grand slam in five days and Wade Miley kept the Cardinals batters off balance as Arizona beat St. Louis 10-3 on a rainy evening at Busch Stadium.
Remember that game in NY where the jackass ballhawk snagged a ball, but the D-backs still won? Here, a horribly-blown call by umpire Jordan Baker helped the Cardinals force extra innings, but the baseball gods let us come out on top after the 14th.
Remember how we chortled heartily when St. Louis outscored San Francisco 15-1 over a double-header this weekend? Not quite so funny now, is it?
Let us pause to appreciate the pleasant surprise which has been backup catcher Wil Nieves this season.
Paul Goldschmidt broke open a 4-4 game with a Grand Slam in the eighth inning and that broke it open for the Diamondbacks. The D'Backs would add four more in the ninth just for fun and they took game two of three from the Cubs.
The Diamondbacks lost their second in a row this afternoon, suffering a drubbing at the hands of the Chicago Cubs. Home runs by Soriano, Hairston and Ransom put Arizona in an early 7-0 hole. They later scored two runs to remain un-shut out this year.
A common folk story in Texas is about the old Texas Rangers getting a call about a riot. When the Ranger arrives, the sheriff says, 'Only one Ranger?' To which the Ranger replies: 'Only one riot.' In this analogy the Diamondbacks are the riot.
The D-backs suffered their first rain-out of the 2013 campaign, as inclement weather in Texas resulted in tonight's scheduled game at Arlington being postponed. No make-up date has been announced.
The Diamondbacks completed a rare two-game sweep of the Texas Rangers in tonight's double-header night-cap. Trevor Cahill went eight solid innings and Didi Gregorius had triple and game-tying home run. Arizona is now 1.5 games up in the NL West.
Hey,. Texas! Our left-handed pitching prospect born in 1991 is better than your left-handed pitching prospect born in 1991!
Today, Corbin's streak of not allowing more than two runs in a game came to an end, but the offense (some of it his own) bailed him out, and got him his 8th win on the season.
Wade Miley melted down in the fourth inning and the D'Backs could not recover and they dropped the second game of this three game series to the Padres.
It was a good night for Brandon McCarthy as he put in another good start when he pitched 7 innings while giving up 1 run and 2 strike outs. Padres pitcher Eric Stults was troubling the Dbacks until...
Early pitching trouble for Cahill and a lackluster offense spelled doom for the Diamondbacks on Wednesday evening.
The game starts out with the Dbacks going down 1-2-3 and so do the Rockies in their half of the inning. Things get, uh... Rocky in the bottom of the 2nd when Troy Tulowitzki hits a double to...
You thought that was March 17th? We're petitioning the Catholic Church to change it, as Patrick Corbin threw his first career complete game, a dominating 10 K performance.
We may not have completed the sweep in Florida, but the later innings did have an amazing defensive play on a bunt attempt.