AZ Snake Pit - Game #94, Diamondbacks 5, Brewers 4An unofficial Arizona Diamondbacks community and bloghttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/47033/azsnakepit_f.png2013-07-14T01:56:36-04:00http://www.azsnakepit.com/rss/stream/42853092013-07-14T01:56:36-04:002013-07-14T01:56:36-04:00Diamondbacks 5, Brewers 4: Didi's Homebrew
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<p>The Diamondbacks have yet to lose against the Brewers in 2013. You will submit to us. Give us your cheese. Resistance is useless.</p> <p></p>
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<td colspan="13">WP: Will Harris (2 - 0) <br> SV: <span>Brad Ziegler</span> (3) <br> LP: <span>Kyle Lohse</span> (5 - 7)</td>
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<p><br id="1373779678807"><br>For three straight games, the Milwaukee Brewers took an early lead. For three straight games, the Diamondbacks have come back for a win. It's not the most clean pattern, but it works. The leads in this series have changed so much, you'd think they were the frontpage layout on the Snakepit! /rimshot.</p>
<p>This game featured <span>Randall Delgado</span> on the mound for the Diamondbacks, looking to continue a string of quality starts.</p>
<p>The initial rending of garments started in the 2nd inning, when Milwaukee pitcher Kyle Lohse hit a seeing-eye single up the middle to score <span>Logan Schafer</span> to make it 1-0 Brewers. There was some consternation from the booth as to whether <span>Didi Gregorius</span> should have attempted to dive for that ball. Didi would be heard from later on such matters. (Such subtle foreshadowing.)<br><br>Lohse, to our dismay, was dealing to begin the game. He was perfect through 4.2 innings, getting a lot of weak contact and a few strikeouts and generally making the Diamondbacks look silly. <span>Miguel Montero</span> was not having it, however. After trolling Dodger fans and beat writers a few days ago, he decided to end the perfect game emphatically by crushing a solo shot to right field to tie the game at 1 apiece. The inning ended with that score, but you felt good about the chances of the Diamondbacks if Delgado could get a clean inning in after that.</p>
<p>...Yeah, about that. Delgado gave up a leadoff single to <span>Jean Segura</span> to start off the 6th. <span>Jonathan Lucroy</span>, quite rudely, hit a home run following that to make it 3-1 Brewers. A <span>Carlos Gomez</span> walk and a <span>Juan Francisco</span> single made the inning look quite perilous. However, as luck would have it, <span>Rickie Weeks</span> (BOO WE WANT UPTON), grounded into a double play. It got Gomez to third, but there were two outs and as long as nobody made any big mistakes, the D'Backs would leave the inning down by only two.<br><br>...Welp, Miguel Montero also had other ideas, clanking a pitch from Delgado off of his glove and allowing Gomez to score to make it 4-1. You would be forgiven for not feeling too hot about the home team's chances at this moment in time. However, Didi Gregorius got the second hit for the Diamondbacks to lead-off the bottom of the 6th. Like the first hit, it was a solo home run. That cut the deficit to 4-2. <br><br>The Diamondbacks got their third hit in the bottom of the 7th. It was also like the first two hits. This time, it was the recently struggling <span>Jason Kubel</span> with the shot. <span>Cody Ross</span> followed with a single, breaking up this nice, orderly pattern we had going. I thought friendship meant something, Cody.<br><br>Montero drew a walk after that, and that ended Lohse's night. In came Hot Trade Candidate<sup>TM</sup><span>John Axford</span>. He really made a case for staying in Milwaukee. (Which I don't blame him, I visited once, it's a nice city.) He walked <span>Martin Prado</span> on four pitches. He then got to a three-ball count against Didi Gregorius, and with his family in attendance, Didi got his shot and got one through the right side of the infield to score Ross and tie the game.</p>
<p><span>Eric Chavez</span> came up to pinch-hit and drew a walk from Axford and the Diamondbacks took a 5-4 lead. Axford was, mercifully, lifted from the game. His replacement, <span>Donovan Hand</span>, did not allow Arizona to score another run that inning, but the damage was done.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 9px;">Also mercifully, the bullpen decided to exude competence tonight, and I include <span>Heath Bell</span> in that statement. Him, Will Harris, <span>Tony Sipp</span>, and Brad Ziegler, who got his second save of the series, put up zeroes in relief of Delgado and shut the door on Milwaukee. (Since it was Native American Recognition Day at the ballpark, let us remember Alice Cooper telling us that Milwaukee is Algonquin for "The Good Land")<br></span></p>
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<div style="text-align: left;">Also: The Diamondbacks stay 2.5 up on the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.truebluela.com/">Dodgers</a>, who beat the quite useless <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.purplerow.com/">Rockies</a> 1-0 earlier today.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">And how does Didi Feel about this?</div>
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<p>Didi's victory hat <a href="http://t.co/xLQdbvW3pU">pic.twitter.com/xLQdbvW3pU</a></p>
— Jack Magruder (@JackMagruder) <a href="https://twitter.com/JackMagruder/statuses/356284245083312128">July 14, 2013</a>
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<b style="font-size: 9pt;">Geronimo: </b><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Didi, +24.7%</span><br><b style="font-size: 9pt;">Cochise: </b><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Montero, +22.7%</span><br><b style="font-size: 9pt;">Dan Snyder: </b><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Delgado, -17.6%</span><br><br><div style="text-align: left;">486 comments in the GDT tonight. 486 is also the type of computer I assume people are running when they mention that GDTs get too laggy for them. Ha ha. Old computer jokes. Me and TolkienBard tied for the most comments. Also present were; AJV19, AzRattler, Baseballdad, Diamondhacks, Gravity, GuruB, Husk, Jim McLennan, JoeCB1991, Majabe, Marc Fournier, Stumpy657, The so-called Beautiful, UAwildcats, asteroid, backtocali, benhat, coldblueAZ, cole8865, hotclaws, luckycc, porty99, preston.salisbury, rapdawg, since98, and soco.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">Tomorrow, the Diamondbacks go for the series AND season sweep against the Brewers. <span>Ian Kennedy</span> takes on <span>Wily Peralta</span> tomorrow afternoon. It should be good. Unless it isn't.</div>
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https://www.azsnakepit.com/2013/7/14/4521674/diamondbacks-5-brewers-4-Axford-Killing-Trade-Value-Didi-is-goodCharlie Gebow2013-07-14T01:18:57-04:002013-07-14T01:18:57-04:00Diamondbacks 5, Brewers 4
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<p>The D'Backs came from behind to take another game away from the Brewers. They still have yet to lose a game against Milwaukee in 2013.</p> <p>Never say die, eh?<br><br>The Diamondbacks fell behind 4-1 thanks to seeing eye singles, a homer, and a passed ball. It looked vaguely hopeless, but Jason Kubel hit a solo shot with one out in the 7th to make it 4-2 a single and a walk chased Brewers starter Kyle Lohse, who at one point had a perfect game through 4.2 that was broken up by a Miguel Montero solo shot.</p>
<p>In came John Axford, hot trade candidate. He proceeded to walk Martin Prado on four pitches, and got into a three-ball count against Didi Gregorius, who also had a solo shot in the game, and Didi placed one well on the right side of the infield to tie the game up. Axford then walked pinch hitter Eric Chavez to give the D'Backs the 5-4 margin they ended up with at the end.</p>
<p>The bullpen was drama free, for once, and Brad Ziegler got his second save of the series. The D'Backs will go for the series and season sweep against the Brewers tomorrow. Full recap to come.</p>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/2013/7/14/4521636/diamondbacks-5-brewers-4Charlie Gebow2013-07-13T21:00:08-04:002013-07-13T21:00:08-04:00Preview: Native American Recognition Day
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<p>The D-backs take on the Brewers in the third of a four-game set at Chase Field. Randall Delgado starts for us, going up against the visitors' Kyle Lohse. </p> <p>
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<p>Penultimate game before the All-Star break, and it's Native American Recognition Day at Chase Field. The D-backs recently hosted the 15th annual Inter-Tribal & Youth BaseballSoftball Tournament July 10-13 with 1,300-plus players from 5 states and 44 tribes. and the winning teams will be recognized today. Miss Gila River will throw out the ceremonial first pitch, and Native American dancers and musicians will perform in-stadium. The first 20,000 fans today also get a free beach towel. Perhaps not the best timing for such a giveaway, but I'll say no more on the topic. I hope you appreciate this surprising restraint. </p>
<p>Even more uniquely, if you care to crank up 660 KTNN, which broadcasts out of Winslow Rock, Dan Arnold and George LaFrance will be calling the action in the native Navajo language, which I believe is a first. On it's own, might not be too useful (my Navajo is, frankly, a little rusty), but would be kinda cool to have that on if you're watching the game. The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ktnnonline.com/default.asp">KTNN website</a> has a 'Listen Live' button, although I'm not sure if MLB will do its usual suppression job, and insist all online broadcasts of an actual game broadcast are disabled. Because, of course, the Navajo-language market is so well-served by the MLB.tv app.</p>
<p>Haven't had much luck against Lohse of late. Over his last three outings, dating back to the start of last season, he has allowed two runs over 17.2 innings of work, which is an ERA fractionally above one. He held the D-backs to one run over six innings when we faced him at Miller Park in April, before a two-run passed ball against the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.brewcrewball.com/">Brewers</a>' bullpen, allowed us to come out on top by a 3-1 margin. Delgado has given the D-backs three consecutive quality starts, but still has only one win on his record as an Arizona starter: last time, he allowed 11 hits to the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.truebluela.com/">Dodgers</a> in six innings, and will be hoping for better luck this time.</p>
<p>Not sure I like this line-up, with Jason Kubel hitting in the clean-up spot. He has been struggling really badly of late, with virtually no power at all: his last extra-base hit was all the way back on June 21. Kubel's line over the past month is .217/.342/.233, with just that one double in sixty at-bats. Jack Magruder <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/JackMagruder/status/356210214070005761">reports</a> there are scouts from the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.southsidesox.com/">White Sox</a> and <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.pinstripealley.com/">Yankees</a> in town for this game, with the Yankees having been here all series. I get a feeling they are probably here more to scout the Brewers' impending fire-sale, but perhaps we can interest them in a slightly-used outfielder, who appears surplus to team requirements.</p>
<p>Dodgers already well under way against the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.purplerow.com/">Rockies</a>, and are currently one run up in the sixth inning. If that score holds, all the more important for the D-backs to hold serve, and keep the margin in the West at a relatively comfortable 2 1/2 games.</p>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/2013/7/13/4521210/preview-game-94-diamondbacks-vs-brewersJim McLennan