AZ Snake Pit - Game #43: 5/22, Diamondbacks 3, Cubs 4An unofficial Arizona Diamondbacks community and bloghttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/47033/azsnakepit_f.png2022-05-22T14:15:00-04:00http://www.azsnakepit.com/rss/stream/229008122022-05-22T14:15:00-04:002022-05-22T14:15:00-04:00Gameday Thread, #43: 5/22 @ Cubs
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<img alt="Earthquake In Valvidia In Chile In 1961" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Q3-cy7iP3b4qXszIP-jql8L1VMU=/0x917:2513x2592/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/70898162/105217360.0.jpg" />
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<p>On this day in 1960, the Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, becomes the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.</p>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/2022/5/22/23136770/gameday-thread-43-5-22-cubsJim McLennan2022-05-22T13:00:00-04:002022-05-22T13:00:00-04:00Diamondbacks Game Preview #43: 5/22 @ Cubs
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<img alt="Arizona Diamondbacks v Los Angeles Dodgers - Game Two" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/qAAfuQyE4Fyt18902pMSzsZBJGM=/0x0:4811x3207/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/70897996/1397859138.0.jpg" />
<figcaption>Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images</figcaption>
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<p>Can the D-backs finish off a four-game road sweep, to counter the one inflicted on them?</p> <div id="FIiMfa">
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<h3>Today's Lineups</h3>
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<th align="left">DIAMONDBACKS</th>
<th align="left">CUBS</th>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Daulton Varsho - C</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Rafael Ortega - CF</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Jordan Luplow - LF</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Jonathan Villar - 2B</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Ketel Marte - 2B</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Seiya Suzuki - RF</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Christian Walker - DH</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Ian Happ - LF</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Pavin Smith - 1B</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Patrick Wisdom - 3B</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Jake McCarthy - RF</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Frank Schwindel - DH</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Alek Thomas - CF</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Alfonso Rivas - 1B</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Geraldo Perdomo - SS</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Andrelton Simmons - SS</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Drew Ellis - 3B</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">P.J. Higgins - C</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Merrill Kelly - RHP</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Wade Miley - LHP</td>
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<h4 id="wvegig">Roster moves</h4>
<p id="JR9tH0">The Arizona Diamondbacks made the following roster moves:</p>
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<li id="F6JNmm">Recalled INF <strong>Drew Ellis </strong>(No. 15) from Triple-A Reno.</li>
<li id="SMQEbo">Optioned INF <strong>Yonny Hernandez </strong>to Triple-A Reno.</li>
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<p id="ie80Ev">It feels like it has to be quite rare to follow up a four-game set on the road where you were swept, with another four-game set where you do the sweeping. But that's what the Diamondbacks have a chance to do today. Part of the rarity is that it's very rare to have back-to-back four gamers, of any kind. This is partly for scheduling reasons. Unless there is (as in Los Angeles) a double-header, you need eight days, bleeding over into the following week. Having the sets run Thu-Sun, and then Mon-Thu, would seem the only credible way to fit it in. This is what happened the last time the D-backs had consecutive four-game series, in September 2018. They faced Atlanta at Chase then traveled to Colorado for four against the Rockies. I don't think this was the result of a previous Coors rain-out, but amn't 100%.</p>
<p id="eMyMuF">But neither of those sets even got close to a sweep, the first two games in each being split. Though oddly, they did both have exactly the same pattern for Arizona: LWLL. The last time Arizona had consecutive road four-game series was earlier in the same 2018 campaign, doing so in Pittsburgh and Miami. There, they almost managed arguably a more remarkable feat, sweeping the Pirates and winning three of four against the Marlins. Only a solitary 5-9 loss prevented an eight-game double sweep of quadruple series on the road. You will not be surprised to learn that Shelby Miller took the L for Arizona in that contest. </p>
<p id="WMzUOO">At the other end, the Diamondbacks almost were on the receiving end in Miami and Washington in August 2014, dropping seven of eight across consecutive series. A 3-2 victory over the Marlins was all that prevented the double sweep. In that game, all the runs scored in first. However, it was a weird road-trip overall, also including a one-day double-header stop in Cleveland, after the first game on the tour got rained out. Five of the ten games resulted in walk-off losses, and eight were decided by one run, including five in a row. [The record there for Arizona is seven, from May 30-June 6, 2010] It seems these kinds of series bring out the strangeness, as we say on Friday. What will today offer?</p>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/2022/5/22/23136778/diamondbacks-game-preview-43-5-22-cubsJim McLennan