AZ Snake Pit - Game #66: 6/13, Arizona Diamondbacks 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 2An unofficial Arizona Diamondbacks community and bloghttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/47033/azsnakepit_f.png2016-06-14T01:13:57-04:00http://www.azsnakepit.com/rss/stream/116914372016-06-14T01:13:57-04:002016-06-14T01:13:57-04:00D-Backs 3, Dodgers 2: Greinke beats up on old team kinda
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<p>Zack Greinke gutted out 7 innings, and Brad Ziegler houdinied the hell out of the game, and the Diamondbacks win a game at home against LA.</p> <p>There was some sort of story going into this game. About someone facing a former team or something or other. Maybe it involved bugs? I dunno. Let's get to the recap, maybe it'll come to me</p>
<p>The <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.truebluela.com/">Dodgers</a>, because they're butt from another butt and not the good kind, scored first on a <span>Justin Turner</span> double in the opening frame that scored the lesser Seager (what up <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.lookoutlanding.com/">Mariners</a> twitter! Unless you like him also. THIS IS HARD OKAY I DON'T HAVE GREAT SOCIAL SKILLS) <span>David Peralta</span>, starting in Center, took a route to the ball akin to a three-flies-up player losing it in the sun when the thrower shouted "JACKPOT DEAD OR ALIVE". Not saying a better, more natural Center Fielder would have gotten to that ball, but... I might be saying that. I dunno.</p>
<p>Former Diamondback Mike Bolsinger returned to Chase Field, I assume that's what all the hullabaloo about this game was. In the first, he let <span>Paul Goldschmidt</span> do this, probably because Goldy seems nice and Mike wanted to be like "Hey, here's something."</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Deepest part of the ballpark? Not a problem for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmericasFirstBaseman?src=hash">#AmericasFirstBaseman</a>.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/VoteGoldy?src=hash">#VoteGoldy</a><a href="https://t.co/fHcGjW2Si6">https://t.co/fHcGjW2Si6</a></p>
— <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.azsnakepit.com/">Arizona Diamondbacks</a> (@Dbacks) <a href="https://twitter.com/Dbacks/status/742540859355201541">June 14, 2016</a>
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<p>Goldy broke the tie between him and <span>Jake Lamb</span> for the team homer lead. Jake Lamb decided in the third to tie that up again. Paul Goldschmidt and Jake Lamb in a revival of <i>Annie Get Your Gun</i> doing <i>Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better </i>will win all the Tony's and make <i>Hamilton </i>look like a pile of crap.</p>
<p><span>Corey Seager</span>, probably cause I made fun of him a few paragraphs ago, hit a solo shot in the fifth to tie the game up. Justin Turner almost made it back to back, but <span>Peter O'Brien</span> robbed him of a Home Run.</p>
<p>Yeah you read that right.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Intercepted!<br><br> : <a href="https://t.co/tjXcj7b6xp">https://t.co/tjXcj7b6xp</a> <a href="https://t.co/Ity9VHn5O8">pic.twitter.com/Ity9VHn5O8</a></p>
— Arizona Diamondbacks (@Dbacks) <a href="https://twitter.com/Dbacks/status/742562540173942784">June 14, 2016</a>
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<p>The good guys retook the lead in the fifth when <span>Jean Segura</span> singled home Nick Ahmed. Segura also had a really good defensive play to save a run wherein he ran very far into center field to catch it over his shoulder. The only reason it saved a run was because a line drive was hit towards <span>Yasmany Tomas</span> and since there's no replay I can find, I give you this visual representation of the play:</p>
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<p>Paul Goldschmidt had another Home Run in the sixth! Except not! It was overturned on replay after a challenge showed it juuuust went on the wrong side of the foul pole. Anyone watching could figure out that was the case after one, maybe two, views of the replay. But the replay booth, probably scrambling to change tabs from their binge of <i>Bojack Horseman</i> to the game, took a fair bit of time, but it was eventually overturned and Goldy took a home run trot for nothing, since he struck out later that at-bat.</p>
<p>Greinke got through 7 innings with 119 pitches. It seemed like he might not be long for that inning when he allowed a hit to <span>Howie Kendrick</span>, but after a <span>Chase Utley</span> fly out and a mound visit he buckled down. He got Seager, who had been pwning him all game, to fly out and struck out Justin Turner to end the threat.</p>
<p>Greinke's final line was 7 IP, 2 ER, 7 Hits, 6 Ks, 2 BB. Pretty good.</p>
<p><span>Daniel Hudson</span> relieved him in the 8th. After getting <span>Adrian Gonzalez</span> to pop out, he walked the bases loaded. This brought in Ziegler earlier than anticipated. Ziegler struck out Kiké Hernandez, and got Howie Kendrick to fly out thanks to an AMAZING DIVING CATCH BY MICHAEL BOURN TO SAVE EVERYONE'S ASS.</p>
<p>After an eighth inning that saw nothing for the Diamondbacks, despite the Dodgers using three pitchers and wasting my damn time, Ziegler came in to finish the Dodgers off.and he got three groundouts to complete the five-out save!</p>
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<span>Source: </span><a style="font-size: 9pt; background-color: #ffffff;" href="http://www.fangraphs.com/livewins.aspx?date=2016-06-13&team=Diamondbacks&dh=0&season=2016">FanGraphs</a>
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<b>Of Worth: </b>Ziegler (+51.2%)<br><b>The Opposite of Batman: </b>Hudson (-22.6%)</div>
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<p>Tomorrow night <span>Archie Bradley</span> takes the mound, and that's usually interesting.</p>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/2016/6/14/11928280/diamondbacks-3-dodgers-2-greinke-beats-up-on-old-team-kindaCharlie Gebow2016-06-13T20:30:03-04:002016-06-13T20:30:03-04:00Diamondbacks Game Preview, #66: Narratives ahoy!
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<p>Both starting pitchers tonight are facing their previous teams. Who will come out on top?</p> <div class="pane sports_data_widget lineup clearfix">
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<h5>Michael Bolsinger<br>RHP, 1-3, 5.75<br>
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<p>It's going to be the first time Greinke has pitched against the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.truebluela.com/">Dodgers</a> since leaving them on the free-agent market this winter. He didn't see them during the previous set against them in Los Angeles, the third series of the year - which was also the Dodgers' home opener. Interesting though it might have been for him to appear there, it's probably for the best that he didn't, and the Greinke we've seen of late seems a much better pitcher than the tentative one who would have appeared in Los Angeles. He hasn't allowed a run this month, tossing 16 shutout innings with a K:BB of 13:2, including a complete-game shutout of the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.draysbay.com/">Rays</a> last week.</p>
<p>Bolsinger, meanwhile, went the other direction, being more or less given away to the Dodgers by Arizona in November 2014. He was actually very respectable for them in 2014, making 21 starts with an ERA+ of 102, but has largely turned back into the expected pumpkin this season, and has been prone to the long-ball, allowing five home-runs in 20.1 innings of work. Something in a corner locker marked "O'Brien" appears to be drooling... It's probably the only game this series where there's a clear advantage in starting pitching for the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.azsnakepit.com/">Diamondbacks</a> - tomorrow looks like a push, and then there's Kershaw on Wednesday - so be nice to take advantage thereof.</p>
<p>Going to be another interesting night in the outfield, with Tomas, O'Brien and Peralta the three men out there. The Freight Train gets the start in center-field, so we'll see how that all works out. To be safe, let's hope that Greinke has his good ground-ball game going this evening. If we beat LA, and the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/">Giants</a> win, that will put the Dodgers a season-high six games back. I don't particularly want San Francisco to win the division title (something something even-year something), but it'd be preferable to another Los Angeles championship. There's always something pleasing about beating the Dodgers - even without <span>Yasiel Puig</span>.</p>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/2016/6/13/11926858/arizona-diamondbacks-game-preview-66-narratives-ahoyJim McLennan