AZ Snake Pit - Game #70, 6/17: Diamondbacks 3, Giants 10An unofficial Arizona Diamondbacks community and bloghttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/47033/azsnakepit_f.png2021-06-17T20:21:07-04:00http://www.azsnakepit.com/rss/stream/223029602021-06-17T20:21:07-04:002021-06-17T20:21:07-04:00D-backs 3, Giants 10 - Record Breaker
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<p>The Diamondbacks played a baseball game today.</p> <p id="gxytbe">It’s actually impressive if you think about it. A Major League Baseball team, a team filled with decent players who have had successful careers up to this point, has taken the field 23 times in a row attempting to win the game. It’s one thing to go out there trying to lose, that’s not fun, maybe even illegal. But to actually try? Round of applause for our boys, please.</p>
<p id="TYt4Lb">Zac Gallen came off the injured list to make his first start in 6 weeks. The D-backs were only 2 games under .500 since his last start, and while they were on a slight slide, there was optimism that this team had what it takes to at least compete in the National League. Pitchers could still use foreign substances to gain a better grip on the baseball. And Arizona was experiencing odd weather for the season, barely breaching 100F a couple times on the month. </p>
<p id="u7YhId">For an inning, Gallen pitched like it was May. He reached 96 mph on his fastball and overpowered the Giants, needing only 9 pitches to get out of the first.</p>
<p id="cEkqw6">His 2nd inning was not great. A leadoff walk to Wilmer Flores precluded a Curt Casali homer, his first of the season. Going into today’s game, he was batting an abysmal 33 wRC+. Steven Duggar immediately followed with a triple, and Dauricio Dubon singled him home, <strong>3-0 Giants.</strong></p>
<p id="X3i0gM">The 3rd was another bad inning, bad enough to cause Gallen to leave the game. Mike Yastrzemski doubled to left, moved to 3rd on a wild pitch, and scored on a sacrifice fly to give the Giants an insurmountable lead, <strong>4-0.</strong></p>
<p id="ltduon">With Riley Smith now on the mound, the Giants continued to build their already massive lead, scoring single runs in the 4th and 5th innings, to give the Giants a <strong>6-0 lead. </strong>It was just a really good team, using extra base hits to score base runners. Amazing.</p>
<p id="0E0tFu"> You might be wondering what the D-backs hitters were doing during all this. Well, not much of anything. Zac Gallen erased the no-hitter threat in the 3rd with a 2-out single but it would take until the 7th for an everyday player to reach the hit column.</p>
<p id="nYd3ZG">Pavin Smith singled to left to double the hit total on the day and Eduardo Escobar doubled to right, giving the D-backs a real scoring opportunity. Christian Walker reached on an error to score Smith from 3rd, and David Peralta singled to give the D-backs 2 runs in the inning. Unfortunately, that was it, <strong>6-2 Giants. </strong></p>
<p id="Dr9t6e">The home team responded in turn, using three hits, including two doubles, to push across 2 runs to retake the 6 run lead, <strong>8-2. </strong>Another 2 run inning in the 8th, again on 3 hits, pushed the lead to <strong>10-2.</strong> And the D-backs used a leadoff triple to squeeze their final run of the day, <strong>10-3.</strong></p>
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<p id="s3IofH">Pretty impressive display as only one single player had a positive WPA on the day, with Eduardo Escobar scoring a positive .006 on the day.</p>
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https://www.azsnakepit.com/2021/6/17/22539389/d-backs-giants-record-road-lossesSteven Burt2021-06-17T15:31:46-04:002021-06-17T15:31:46-04:00Gameday Thread, #70: 6/17 @ Giants
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<p>On this day in 2016, Finding Dory was #1 at the North American box-office. </p> <blockquote><p id="sD0eIe">I remember it like it was yesterday. Of course, I don’t really remember yesterday all that well. </p></blockquote>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/diamondbacks-gamedays/2021/6/17/22539048/gameday-thread-70-6-16-giantsJim McLennan2021-06-17T14:45:20-04:002021-06-17T14:45:20-04:00D-backs Preview #70: 6/17 @ Giants
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<p>“A great day, comrades. We sail into history.”</p> <div id="FTkQli">
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<h4 id="omU0OU">Roster move </h4>
<p id="UjDrKj">The Arizona Diamondbacks made the following roster moves: </p>
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<li id="Uk09Sh">Reinstated RHP <strong>Zac Gallen </strong>(sprained right elbow) from the 10-day injured list.</li>
<li id="dYSL7F">Following last night’s game, optioned RHP <strong>Humberto Castellanos</strong> to Triple-A Reno.</li>
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<p id="BplPWJ">Gallen returns to the rotation, and will immediately attempt to be the “stopper,” as the Diamondbacks once more stand on the verge of matching the franchise-worst 14-game losing streak. When we last dodged that particular bullet, all the way back on... Er, May 30, you’d have been forgiven for thinking it was over. I mean, it had been almost 17 years since the team had lost more than 11 in a row. If it was another 17 years before it happened again, I think we’d all have been fine with that. But here we are again, <em>less than three weeks later</em>, and the record has another chance to be matched. No, seriously, baseball gods? WTF? I blame those TikTok dances. </p>
<p id="tQGQcA">Updating the piece from <a href="https://www.azsnakepit.com/diamondbacks-gamedays/2021/6/15/22535597/d-backs-preview-68-6-15-giants">a couple of days ago</a>, here are the teams to have had multiple 13-game losing streaks in the same season. It’s a considerably shorter list than the previous one:</p>
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<li id="hsekNY">BSN 1909: 15 + 13</li>
<li id="fFKKNu">BSN 1911: 16 + 14</li>
<li id="IOkI8j">PHI 1919: 13 + 13</li>
<li id="AW3AsC">BSN 1935: 14 + 15</li>
<li id="Yl1g10">NYM 1962: 17 + 13</li>
<li id="M4wM4h">ARI 2021:13 + 13 (ongoing)</li>
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<p id="MPant1">Obviously, having them so close to each other is unprecedented, considering there have been fewer than a hundred 13-game losing streaks in the entire history of baseball. The nearest were the 1919 Philadelphia Phillies who lost 13 in a row from June 6-20, then 13 more from June 28-July 9. But even they got a week off between the streaks, going 3-3 in those games. I suspect, but haven’t been able to check, that the D-backs current spell of 2-27 is very likely the worst 29-game spell of baseball ever. We’ll see what happen this afternoon, and if they can make it a round 30-game spell of near-impeccable suckitude. </p>
<p id="e8DVjP">No Torey pre-game session today. It’s probably for the best. </p>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/diamondbacks-gamedays/2021/6/17/22538922/d-backs-preview-70-6-17-giantsJim McLennan