AZ Snake Pit - Game #107: 8/2, Arizona Diamondbacks 4, Washington Nationals 10An unofficial Arizona Diamondbacks community and bloghttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/47033/azsnakepit_f.png2016-08-03T03:14:24-04:00http://www.azsnakepit.com/rss/stream/121287372016-08-03T03:14:24-04:002016-08-03T03:14:24-04:00Dbacks 4, Nationals 10: 'Twas a Dark and Stormy Night
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<p>The weather was crazy, my neighbors were crazier, and the Dbacks were terrible. </p> <p>The <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.federalbaseball.com/">Nationals</a> got to <span>Robbie Ray</span> early tonight.. Trea "Time" Turner (h/t hotclaws) and <span>Jayson Werth</span> started the game off with back-to-back singles for the Nationals. In addition, a Michael Bourn error on the Werth single let the runners advance to second and third. A ground ball off the bat of <span>Daniel Murphy</span> to shortstop <span>Chris Owings</span> allowed Turner to score. A strike out of Rendon and <span>Wilson Ramos</span> grounding back to Ray ended the inning. 1-0 Nationals</p>
<p>In the bottom of the inning, the Dbacks struck back. <span>Segura</span> singled, Bourn walked, and <span>Goldschmidt</span> singled to load the bases. Of course, you would hope for a crooked number to come out of that situation, but true to form, the Diamondbacks only managed one run. Jake Lamb grounded into what became a run scoring double play after a review of the play at first for the first two outs, and Wellington Castillo struck out to end the threat. Game tied at one.</p>
<p>Arizona took the lead thanks to a rare Yasmany Tomas home run at Chase Field. It didn't last long, though, as Ray gave up an RBI single to Wilmer Difo to tie things back up.</p>
<p>That all changed in the top of the fifth, and it all started with two outs. Murphy singled, and Anthony Rendon walked, bringing Ramos to the plate. He then deposited one in the stands, demolishing the Dbacks lead and giving the Nationals one in the process. Not to be outdone, Chis Heisey hit one of his own to extend the lead. 5-2 Nationals</p>
<p>Other than a Jake Lamb solo home run in the sixth and a final run in the ninth, it just got worse from there. Delgado gave up a solo home run. Daniel Hudson is still broken, giving up three runs tonight. Adam Loewen pitched the ninth, and gets the distinction of being the only Diamondback pitcher to not give up a run, so kudos to him, I guess.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Winning five bucks on a Powerball ticket: Yasmany Tomas, 13.2%</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Losing an arm in a wood chipper: Robbie Ray, -37.2%</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Quiet GDT, which, between the game and the fact that for most of it, the majority of Phoenix was stuck in traffic due to traffic, was to be expected. I lead the way with 33 comments, JoeCB1991 and hotclaws (At this point, the recap was interrupted for almost two hours because my neighbors decided to start shooting at each other:D)followed. Joe also got CoTN with this PYW worthy Photoshop</p>
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https://www.azsnakepit.com/2016/8/3/12365718/dbacks-4-nationals-10-twas-a-dark-and-stormy-nightImstillhungry952016-08-03T01:00:07-04:002016-08-03T01:00:07-04:00ARI 4, WSH 10
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<p>Another day, another game where the Dbacks gave up double digit runs. Ray was good for about four innings, and then things went pear shaped. He left with the Dbacks down 6-2. Delgado took over for him and gave up another run. Hudson is still very much broken, giving up three runs of his own in one inning. The only pitcher to not give up a run tonight was Adam Loewen, who I honestly didn't even know existed until tonight.</p>
<p>The offense wasn't a whole lot better. They had their chances and, pretty much like always, they wasted them. They loaded the bases in the first and only got one, loaded them again in the eighth, and didn't get any. Two of their runs came off solo homers, which are nice, but aren't going to win you many ball games. The last one came in the bottom of the ninth, but was completely irrelevant</p>
<p>All in all, a sucky game that was another brutal reminder that this team just plain isn't any good. I'm tempted just to stick a Fangraphs here and call it a full recap, but don't worry, a full recap with all the gory details will be forthcoming.</p>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/2016/8/3/12366142/dbacks-4-nationals-10Imstillhungry952016-08-02T20:30:04-04:002016-08-02T20:30:04-04:00Diamondbacks Game Preview, #107: Braced
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<p id="ZgvYxX">After losing consecutive games by 11 and 13 runs, it’s hard to see how tonight’s game could go much worse, short of Paul Goldschmidt stumbling into a wood chipper, carelessly parked in the dugout. Both the runs allowed (28) and the combined margins of defeat (24) were the third worst over any two game span in D-backs history. The record in the former category is 33, set on June 17-18 in - this is my unsurprised face - Coors Field, when Arizona lost to Colorado 14-5 and 19-2. The record margin is 27, dating from August 23-24 2005, when the Diamondbacks were bombed by the Mets 14-1 and 18-4.</p>
<p id="RNvpG5">I imagine you want to know what has to happen tonight, in terms of records over a three-game span. The most runs conceded by Arizona in three games is 39, which happened, again in Denver, from September 21-23, when the D-backs allowed 15, 11 and 13 runs. So we need eleven tonight to tie the mark. Probably more attainable, the record margin in any trio of contests is 30, adding a 4-1 loss which preceded the other two games against the Mets in 2005. To match that, we need to lose by six tonight at Chase against the Nationals, and that seems well within the scope of possibility, since Arizona already has 13 defeats this year by a margin of 6+ runs.</p>
<p id="wYf1ff">We’ll see if Robbie Ray can keep racking up the strikeouts. If the team keeps him on every fifth start, and his innings and K’s keep going at the same rate, Ray will end the year with 33 games, 180.2 innings of work and 225 strikeouts. That would be the most for a season since 2004, when Randy Johnson fanned 290. He and Curt Schilling are the only pitchers in team history to have more K’s in a year than Ray’s projected numbers. Indeed, in terms of rate, Ray’s current figure of 11.19 per nine innings, would beat all of Schill’s seasons with Arizona, and trail only the Big Unit, in each season from 1999-2002.</p>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/2016/8/2/12364556/arizona-diamondbacks-game-preview-washington-nationalsJim McLennan