AZ Snake Pit - Game #82, June 29: Diamondbacks 1, Giants 2An unofficial Arizona Diamondbacks community and bloghttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/47033/azsnakepit_f.png2018-06-30T00:55:18-04:00http://www.azsnakepit.com/rss/stream/172840312018-06-30T00:55:18-04:002018-06-30T00:55:18-04:00Diamondbacks 1, Giants 2: Gigante Cocktailcap
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<p>TGIF everyone!!! Work week is over, and my no-beer no-carb diet is almost at an end as well. 15lbs down and I’ve gotta say, this Keto thing is quite effective. So here we go, one last recap without suds. </p> <h4 id="MeeAv8">Cocktail 1: La Croix and whiskey</h4>
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<li id="tOvx18">Yea, I know, it’s kinda boring with this diet limiting the variety you are all used to reading about. So bear with me just one more time.</li>
<li id="Q2YWbW">Threw out my back and my lovely GF is nursing me back to health with her godlike cooking. Seriously; a diet under her watch is easy to follow. She’d make cardboard taste delectable. </li>
<li id="pOJGvm">On that note Corbin looks to be cooking with gas in the 1st with a delectable 1-2-3 inning. Sure as hell hoping we see more of those tonight....and for the remainder of the season.</li>
<li id="X4xoTH">Into the 2nd after Goldy allllllmmmmmmmooooooost launched a solo shot in right field. Goldy’s June just further proves His demigod-like stature among fellow followers of His will. For through his might we shall know glory. Amen.</li>
<li id="UZVq3O">I shouldn’t compliment Corbin, or any of our pitchers for that matter, early in games. For Posey strikes early with a double to open the frame and he’s then driven home. 0-1 Gigantes. </li>
<li id="rp8qK2">Marte, being a scientist of sorts, seeks to test the tensile strength of the netting down the 3rd base line. Luckily that netting seems to have saved several fans from a close encounter with lumber. Marte takes off his lab coat and retires back to the dugout at the conclusion of this experiment.</li>
<li id="2A3S85">CO’s pool cue down the 3rd base line that some how stays fair, is followed up by Lamb’s tapper, leading to CO almost overrunning second, leading to Mathis.....grounding into a force-out at 3rd. Another inning and yet another tease by our offense. Gahhh!!</li>
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<h4 id="7SC2Eq">Cocktail 2: Macallan 12yr </h4>
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<li id="zCj2El">Gotta finish off my liquor cabinet as the return to beer lingers. Shame to finish this fine spirit off. Love scotch, and though I do love the peaty scotch far more, there’s something to be said for the great smoothness that is Macallan.</li>
<li id="Iv3SNG">Mom just texted me “If we got tickets to Dbacks for the 4th could you join us?” I feverishly type back “Yea!” (thinking they already got tickets) Then she’s like “Can you get some great tickets that will pay for?” To which I was like “Ummm...sure!”</li>
<li id="Uz1Yl6">Marte’s experiments have moved to more frustrating avenues as he explores the difficulties in hitting a bases loaded RBI at a ball WAY out of the zone. Yet another tease of an inning and Marte once again retreats to the dugout with taking off his lab coat and putting away his beakers.</li>
<li id="qov5gh">So here we are, in the 4th, and I just bought $630 worth of 4th of July tickets at my parent’s behest. Today is a good day, but this game is frustrating with it’s lack of production. What isn’t frustrating is this D. Corbin and many of our other starters have been fine, but it’s everyone behind them, and in the case of Mathis just now, in front of them that has made this team. Seriously, I can’t begin to overstate how awe inspiring our defense is this year compared to last. It’s season changing.</li>
<li id="5D3YyM">Another inning and another lack of runs. Blessedly the Gigantes are following much the same trend, but my night could sure use some excitement outside of rustling up some tickets and sipping on scotch. 0-1 going in to the bottom the 6th.</li>
<li id="ch1Lsg">Marte, having grown weary of his mad scientist act, decides to just hit as he laces a double to start the bottom half of the 6th. Sometimes the best science is the simplest......no I’m not a flat-earther.</li>
<li id="Jwni8J">Science be praised! Instant replay saves an Owings hit and we suddenly got runners on the corner and no outs. Sac fly ties it up and I’m officially no longer bored. 1-1 </li>
<li id="saKxaN">Walker “Arizona” Ranger takes Corbin spot for what will likely be the end of the inning, yes I’m daring him to prove me wrong.</li>
<li id="F9cMNQ">Nope, I predicted correctly, but at least we get out of the 6th with a tie. I can live with that.</li>
<li id="vFJg8S">Can’t live with Chafin giving up the tie with a lead-off walk swiftly followed by a double. No amount of killer defense was gonna undo that. 1-2 <a href="https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/">Giants</a>
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<h4 id="yFd98E">Cocktail 3: Dictador 20yr Rum </h4>
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<li id="D38Wrn">Yoshi, as usual, defends our honor while I pour this last (hopefully) drink. An inning that seemed like it could spiral into disaster is saved yet again by the Japanese phenom. Banzai!</li>
<li id="0IR5ct">Still nothing doing in the bottom of the 7th, but Salas keeps it a game in the 8th and we still got two more chances to turn this in to a W.</li>
<li id="814ZA2">Couldn’t score in the 8th and now we’re down to our last bullet in the bottom of the 9th. Our hopes start with Lamb as he takes on <span>Will Smith</span>. No, it’s not Independence Day just yet.</li>
<li id="2CHKNN">Lamb and Mathis come up empty and it’s now up to JRM to bring home the bacon......but it wasn’t meant to be. Giants win. Game Over.</li>
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<h4 id="cy4MHi">Roll Call!!!!!</h4>
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<li id="GTuqvu"><strong>smartplays: 44</strong></li>
<li id="IMticJ"><strong>shoewizard: 42</strong></li>
<li id="yOpKXu"><strong>edbigghead: 42</strong></li>
<li id="wn9ufG"><strong>GuruB: 39</strong></li>
<li id="v24Vca"><strong>hotclaws: 37</strong></li>
<li id="g0prlW"><strong>MikeMono: 28</strong></li>
<li id="3KaOPh"><strong>BobDolio: 24</strong></li>
<li id="oLLSd1"><strong>coldblueAZ: 23</strong></li>
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<p id="uBWpLl">Comment of the game goes to Shoewizard, as he touches on what I visited upon in this article: defense.</p>
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<p id="zibw0J"><strong>Fundamentals</strong></p>
<p id="POa8WA"><strong>The irony of Olberman’s idiotic tweet that night is that it’s precisely Fundamentals that have propelled this team to the record they have……greater than the sum of the parts and all that.</strong></p>
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<p id="iaooRv">Night all!. Not the game I was hoping for, but perhaps the game I deserved. Stay strong, stay cool and go Dbacks!!!</p>
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<div id="K1rDXT"><p style="text-align:center"><b>Click <a href="https://www.fangraphs.com/livewins.aspx?date=2018-06-29&team=Diamondbacks&dh=0&season=2018" target="_blank">here</a> for details, at Fangraphs.com</b>
<br><b>Pride: Patrick Corbin, +23.0%</b>
<br><b><i>Unproud: Andrew Chafin, -20.0%</i></b><i>
<br>Unproud Lite: Mathis, -18.0%; Lamb, -13.3%; Peralta, -12.3%</i></p></div>
<p id="7vmXSv">Full list of GDTers: BobDolio, DORRITO, DeadManG, Gilbertsportsfan, GuruB, Jim McLennan, Johnneu, Makakilo, Michael McDermott, MikeMono, MrMrrbi, aldma, coldblueAZ, edbigghead, gamepass, hotclaws, kilnborn, lildbackfan21x, shoewizard, smartplays. We’ll be back tomorrow for an evening game, with <span>Shelby Miller</span> starting for Arizona - it’s also SnakePitFest at SnakePit Towers, so the recap may be...delayed. :)</p>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/2018/6/30/17514084/diamondbacks-giants-recapTurambar2018-06-30T00:32:35-04:002018-06-30T00:32:35-04:00Arizona Diamondbacks 1, San Francisco Giants 2
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<p>A quiet night on offense led to a loss at the start of the homestand.</p> <p id="fZRnkL">A very solid outing by <span>Patrick Corbin</span>, who went six innings, allowing one run on four hits and a walk with five strikeouts. The sole run against Corbin came in the second, when an RBI double by <span>Austin Slater</span> gave the visiting <a href="https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/">Giants</a> a 1-0 lead. Meanwhile, <span>Andrew Suarez</span> of San Francisco was proving every bit as tough an opponent, with the D-backs having trouble making hard contact. He too allowed one run over six innings, scattering seven hits - a remarkable five of those being infield hits. Arizona’s run came in the bottom of the sixth, <span>Jake Lamb</span>’s sacrifice fly scoring <span>Ketel Marte</span> to tie the game at one. </p>
<p id="6Uqmfc">Unfortunately, it didn’t last, with <span>Andrew Chafin</span> immediately allowing a run in the top of the seventh, to give San Francisco the lead back. The D-backs were unable to get anything going against the Giants’ bullpen, not managing a base-runner. Though congratulations to <span>Yoshihisa Hirano</span>, who set a club record with his 25th consecutive scoreless appearance. Turambar will be along with some kind of leisure-cap in a bit!</p>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/2018/6/30/17520330/arizona-diamondbacks-san-francisco-giants-scoreJim McLennan2018-06-29T21:00:02-04:002018-06-29T21:00:02-04:00Preview #82: 6/29 vs. Giants
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<p>The second-half of the season gets under way!</p> <div id="xAQGWE">
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<h3>Today's Lineups</h3>
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<th align="left">SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS</th>
<th align="left">ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS</th>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Alen Hanson - 2B</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Jon Jay - RF</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Brandon Belt - 1B</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Nick Ahmed - SS</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Andrew McCutchen - RF</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Paul Goldschmidt - 1B</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Buster Posey - C</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">David Peralta - LF</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Brandon Crawford - SS</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Ketel Marte - 2B</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Austin Slater - LF</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Chris Owings - CF</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Pablo Sandoval - 3B</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Jake Lamb - 3B</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Austin Jackson - CF</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Jeff Mathis - C</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Andrew Suarez - LHP</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Patrick Corbin - LHP</td>
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<p id="SYfqun">It’s always fun to reach the middle point of the season, look at the stats so far, and see what doubling them would mean. Here are a few such numbers, based on the next 81 games gong the same way as the first 81. How plausible do you think these are?</p>
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<a href="https://www.azsnakepit.com/"><strong>Diamondbacks</strong></a><strong> win 94 games</strong>. This feels, if anything, a little low. The team’s Pythag is a game above their current record, they’ve only had one month of <span>Robbie Ray</span> and <span>A.J. Pollock</span>, and at some point soon, talent in the bullpen will be more important than depth. At which point, it’s goodbye to <span>Fernando Salas</span> and Rubby De La Rosa, and hello on a full-time basis to <span>Silvino Bracho</span> and <span>Jimmie Sherfy</span> [the latter, in case you missed it, was popped off the roster today, and replaced by <span>Christian Walker</span>, the team returning to a 7-man bullpen, thanks to only needing <span>Zack Greinke</span> and De La Rosa yesterday]</li>
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<span><strong>Zack Godley</strong></span><strong> gets 18 W’s</strong>. Yeah, who had Zack as the team leader in wins at the half-way point? That’s despite him having the highest ERA of any of the six starters with a W to their name, and his FIP is almost identical, suggesting he has not been unlucky there. Greinke is on eight and <span>Patrick Corbin</span> as six: I’m going to stick my neck out and say both of them will (good health willing) overtake Godley by the end of the season.</li>
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<span><strong>Nick Ahmed</strong></span><strong> (above) hits 20 home-runs</strong>. This would be especially impressive, considering he had 20 over the previous four season in his major-league career <em>combined</em>, covering 302 games and over a thousand PA. But he’s definitely changed his approach in the first half - though the weird thing is, his slugging percentage overall has actually <em>dropped </em>fractionally. I’m more inclined to think that we’ll see 30 home-runs from <span>David Peralta</span> this year, another figure well above the player’s personal best. </li>
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<span><strong>Brad Boxberger</strong></span><strong> saves 38 games</strong>. That would be right in the wheelhouse expected for the win total: last year, when the D-backs won 93 times, <span>Fernando Rodney</span> got 39 saves. That version of the team was rather better/luckier in the close games, going 29-23 there: to this point, the 2018 D-backs are 13-12. But I’m fine with that. If we were over-achieving in that area, I’d be concerned about the possibility of second-half regression. As is, the bullpen will have to go some to reproduce the league-best 2.51 ERA, though that only translated to a 14-13 record, considerably worse than the 18-9 and 17-8 of the next two relief corps by ERA, the <a href="https://www.brewcrewball.com/">Brewers</a> and <a href="https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/">Cubs</a>. </li>
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<p id="xeHr9B">So, which of the above do you think are most/least likely to happen?</p>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/2018/6/29/17519994/preview-82-6-29-vs-giantsJim McLennan