SnakeBytes, 8/31: Month End Edition

Dear Diamondbacks: Keep on doing what you're doing.  Thanks

Recaps:

• [azcentral.com] Arizona Diamondbacks' Mark Reynolds ends slump with 2 home runs in win over San Diego Padres - Mark's thoughts on changing Chase Field? "They can have the pitchers throw rolled up socks and move the fence back 50 feet; it don't matter. We're still going to come out here and play. If it helps instill confidence in our pitchers, then more power to them."

• [dbacks.com] Saunders gets redemption in win over Padres - "I was like, 'C'mon, this can't be going on again." And we were right there with you, Colonel.

• [foxsportsarizona.com] Reynolds homers twice as D-backs beat Padres 7-2 - "I stayed positive and my defense played excellent behind me, and the run support and the way we were swinging the bat, the guys did the little things."

• [azcentral.com] Arizona Diamondbacks' Stephen Drew hasn't changed a thing during hot streak - "It's one of those things that every hitter goes through in a season, and you just try to keep it up as long as you can."

• [dbacksvenom.com] Diamondbacks Clinch First Winning Month of the Season - What's brought us to this surprising result? Check out our monthly ERA- it's respectable!

• [dbacks.com] Upton experiencing left shoulder irritation - "It just happens every once in a while. Last year I bounced back from it pretty quick. Right now it's up in the air, but hopefully it will be a pretty quick recovery."

• [foxsportsarizona.com] Webb may be pricing himself out of D-Backs' future - "It is a very strong stand." That's some understatement from Derrick Hall.

• [fanster.com] It's Time to Remove the Interim Tag from Kirk Gibson - A winning month, a week of good play against playoff hopefuls- has Gibbie earned the a permanent job?

• [si.com] Aroldis Chapman tops 10 major league September call-ups - If you shuffle past the over-hyping, Brandon Allen also gets a mention.

Around Baseball:

• [mlb.com] COL@SF: Gonzalez triples, two runs come in to score - Now that's failure. Those runs are more on the Giants defense than on the Rockies offense.

• [si.com] Bud Selig on drug testing, 'true World Series' and new statue - Blah blah blah steroids, what I find interesting is this: "Selig said he's working on a "true World Series" and he's working with the Japanese league to make that happen. Selig said that he's met twice with the Japanese commissioner this year." Coooooool.

• [espn.com] Sizing up the NL Cy Young race - Two names draw top mention: Halladay and Wainwright. Ubaldo's decline has take its toll.

• [fangraphs.com] I Really Had a Blackout | FanGraphs Baseball - In 2008, MLB President Bob DuPuy said his goal was to reduce how many games were blacked out. What's happened since then? Well, to sum it up: [this space left blank].

And so we take on the Padres again.  Ian Kennedy started off this losing streak for them, and we'll look to him to continue it.