AZ Snake Pit - Game #160: 10/3, Diamondbacks 5, Brewers 6An unofficial Arizona Diamondbacks community and bloghttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/47033/azsnakepit_f.png2022-10-04T03:25:59-04:00http://www.azsnakepit.com/rss/stream/231490892022-10-04T03:25:59-04:002022-10-04T03:25:59-04:00Arizona Diamondbacks 5, Milwaukee Brewers 6: Spoiled Brew
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<p>Stop me if you’ve heard this before. The Arizona Diamondbacks have once again blown another solid start from a young rookie.</p> <p id="Mq6pne">Sooooooo my last recap was supposed to be this past Friday, but I fell asleep by 8:00 PM during that doozy of a loss in San Francisco. Forever a glutton for punishment, I decided I would step up for this game to repent for my sins. Yay.</p>
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<p id="MdNKB5">Tommy Henry took the mound looking to correct course after a consecutive trio of stinker starts. Over his last thirteen innings pitched over those three games, he had allowed seventeen earned runs. Tonight was a return to the form we saw over his first handful of MLB starts earlier this season.</p>
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<p id="nwMFq2">After pitching a spotless first inning, Christian Yelich tagged Henry for a solo home run to begin the second inning. The Bally Sports broadcast had mentioned how much Yelich’s performance has dropped over the past few seasons and it is remarkable. Following his MVP 2018 season and MVP runner-up 2019 season, he is the owner of a lackluster for him .742 OPS, 4.3 bWAR total over those seasons while making roughly $25 million per 650 plate appearances. Not good. Henry walked Andrew McCutchen after the Yelich home run, but settled down with a double play and pop out to end the inning. </p>
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<p id="yL5ZoL">Meanwhile, Brandon Woodruff was cutting the D’backs down with three strikeouts against his first six batters faced. However, Arizona retaliated with a solo home run of their own from Cooper Hummel in the third inning to tie the game at one. Both pitchers went toe-to-toe from there with neither allowing a run until the fifth inning. Speedster Corbin Carroll got that inning started with a lead off triple. Sergio Alcantara brought him in to score immediately with a deep sacrifice fly to give the snakes the lead which they would hold until the bottom of the ninth. Milwaukee had an extra base hit of their own in the inning on a Luis Urias double, but nothing would come of it.</p>
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<p id="rVdojJ">Craig Counsell pulled Brandon Woodruff for Hob Milner in the seventh inning, and the <a href="https://www.azsnakepit.com/">Diamondbacks</a> capitalized on the fresh arm. Christian Walker hit a double that bounced around in the right field corner leading off the frame and was advanced to third on a sac bunt from Josh Rojas. Sergio Alcantara then belted his second loud flyball of the night, but this time it cleared the wall giving Arizona a four to one lead. </p>
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<p id="Zq3tPN">Lovullo also went to his bullpen in the bottom of the seventh bringing an end to a rebounding solid start by Tommy Henry. All told, he went six and a third innings giving up the hits and a walk on five strikeouts. Joe Mantiply came on for the save in the bottom of the ninth and was nowhere near the all star form he displayed during the first half. His very first pitch to Hunter Renfroe was turned around inside out and over the wall in center field cutting the lead to two runs. Christian Yelich singled for his second hit of the game to follow, and a one out wild pitch advanced him to second. A walk to Kolten Wong put the force out at any base setting up a potential game ending double play. Instead, Rowdy Tellez grounded out to first which put both runners in scoring position with two outs. </p>
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<p id="smPFC8">What ultimately did the D’backs in was what you would least suspect. Christian Walker, who has been so solid defensively all season and is a Gold Glove favorite, could not handle a Victor Caratini ground ball which allowed both Brewer runs to score sending the game into extra innings. With Cooper Hummel on second as the bonus runner to begin the tenth, Geraldo Perdomo pushed him to third with a sacrifice bunt. Wisconsin native Daulton Varsho singled him home to once again give Arizona the lead.</p>
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<p id="y3kBfo">Reyes Moronta, who concluded the ninth, was left in the game in hopes to put Milwaukee to rest once and for all, but it would not be. Milwaukee finalized their comeback effort with a walk and consecutive singles to cap a four to one comeback for the five to six victory.</p>
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https://www.azsnakepit.com/2022/10/4/23386574/arizona-diamondbacks-5-milwaukee-brewers-6-spoiled-brew-tommyhenryKeegan Thompson2022-10-03T19:30:00-04:002022-10-03T19:30:00-04:00Gameday Thread, #160: 10/2 @ Brewers
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<p>On this day in 1995, O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.</p>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/2022/10/3/23385055/gameday-thread-160-10-2-brewersJim McLennan2022-10-03T18:30:00-04:002022-10-03T18:30:00-04:00Diamondbacks Game Preview #160: 10/3 @ Brewers
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<p>The D-backs finish the 2022 season far from home.</p> <div id="cfGzx1">
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<td class="td-last td-name">Daulton Varsho - CF</td>
<td class="td-first td-name">Mike Brosseau - 3B</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Pavin Smith - DH</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Jake McCarthy - RF</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Josh Rojas - 2B</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Corbin Carroll - LF</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Sergio Alcantara - 3B</td>
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<td class="td-last td-name">Geraldo Perdomo - SS</td>
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<p id="RE5yVm">According to Google, it would take you about 27 hours to drive the 1,800 or so miles from Phoenix to Milwaukee. I’m fairly sure the D-backs won’t be bussing it, but it’s still a long way from home for the final series of the year. It’s a bit of a rarity for Arizona to have to do that. Even if they don’t end the schedule at Chase Field, the makers usually have it so that their final series is against another National League West opponent, presumably to try and make for excitement in the final games. Indeed, only on one other time since 2009 has Arizona had to change their clocks for the last series, in 2017 when they played in Kansas City. Nine of the eleven previous final stands for the D-backs had been at home. </p>
<p id="c9ON4E">This is the 25th season for the D-backs, and the great majority, seventeen of them, have ended with games against divisional opponents. But it hasn’t been an even split within the NL West, with a heavy bias towards the Rockies (six times) and Padres (seven). We’ve only finished against the Dodger and Giants twice; we haven’t done so against San Francisco since back in 2005. Indeed, Arizona will now have had as many season-ending series in Milwaukee, as against the Giants here OR in San Francisco. Of the other opponents outside the NL West, we’ve also seen St. Louis twice, both times at Chase Field. along with series on the road against the Royals and Cubs, and at home versus the Nationals and Astros. </p>
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<p id="fij4NL">But this will be the furthest from home the D-backs have ever played game #162, obviously tying the 2001 series, also in Milwaukee, the opening season for what was then called Miller Park. The D-backs clinched the NL West title with a 5-0 victory in the first game, behind a complete-game three-hit shutout from <s>Randy Johnson</s> <s>Curt Schilling</s> Albie Lopez. I think it’s fair to say they took their feet off the gas for the remaining two games, particularly the finale started by, um, Eric Knott. After taking a 4-0 lead, the D-backs surrendered a ten-run fourth, on their way to a 15-5 loss. Knott allowed eight runs, but after errors by Craig Counsell and Mark Grace, all were unearned . That’s a line no NL pitcher has had in the past 15 years.</p>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/2022/10/3/23385097/diamondbacks-game-preview-160-10-3-brewersJim McLennan