AZ Snake Pit - Game #36: Diamondbacks 7, Brewers 5An unofficial Arizona Diamondbacks community and bloghttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/47033/azsnakepit_f.png2014-05-07T00:17:27-04:00http://www.azsnakepit.com/rss/stream/54530112014-05-07T00:17:27-04:002014-05-07T00:17:27-04:00Dbacks 7, Brewers 5: A Game of Firsts
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<p>The game tonight was marked by a lot of firsts, both firsts as in things that happened for the first time, and as in the first inning. </p> <p style="text-align: center; "><b>Record: 12-24 On Pace: 54-108 Change on '04, '10, '13: -2/-2/-9</b></p>
<p align="left">The <i>first </i>inning of tonight's game was eventful, demoralizing, and seeming indicative of how the evening was going to go for the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.azsnakepit.com/">Diamondbacks</a>. In the top of the first, everything seemed to be going the Dbacks way. Parra lead the game off with a single, and was brought home by the <i>first</i> <span>Paul Goldschmidt</span> home run I've listened to this season. However, thanks to some disastrous defense in the bottom of the first, that lead wouldn't hold up. Nine <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.brewcrewball.com/">Brewers</a> went to the plate, five of them scored, on four hits. <span>Chris Owings</span> bounced a throw to Goldschmidt, which allowed a run to score, and <span>Ender Inciarte</span> completely airmailed a throw to the plate which allowed another run to score. Also featuring prominently were RBI doubles for <span>Lyle Overbay</span> and Logan Schafer. Of the five runs given up in the first inning, only one was earned.</p>
<p align="left">The Dbacks never let that get to them, though, and kept battling back for the rest of the game. In the fifth inning, <span>A.J. Pollock</span> lead the inning off with a walk, and was brought home by a <span>Josh Collmenter</span> one-out single to cut the Brewers' lead down to two runs. Then in the sixth, Chris Owings hit his <i>first </i>Big League home run to bring the Dbacks within a run.</p>
<p style="text-align: center; " align="left">Meanwhile, Collmenter was completely shutting down Milwaukee. After the first inning, he pitched another four and two thirds innings, giving up zero runs, four hits, two strikeouts, and no walks. Without that kind of performance, there is no way the Dbacks win this game. He was pulled in with two on and two outs in the sixth for <span>Evan Marshall</span>,in his <i>first </i>appearance in the Majors, who got <span>Carlos Gomez</span> to ground out to short and end the inning.</p>
<p align="left">Finally, in the seventh inning, the Dbacks struck big. Goldschmidt started things off right with a double. He was brought home the next batter by a <span>Miguel Montero</span> single to tie the game, and then <span>Aaron Hill</span> hit a two-run home run which ended up being the difference in this one. Dbacks 7, Brewers 5.</p>
<p style="text-align: center; " align="left">Marshall, now in line for his <i>first</i> win, came back out for the bottom of the seventh, recorded his <i>first</i> two strike outs, and sat the Brewers down in order. <span>Brad Ziegler</span> and <span>Addison Reed</span> did the same in the eighth and ninth innings respectively to close out my <i>first</i> winning recap and the game.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center; "><b>First: </b>Aaron Hill, 28.8%</p>
<p style="text-align: center; "><b>Honorary First: </b>Paul Goldschmidt, 23.9%</p>
<p style="text-align: center; "><b>Not first (and not really his fault): </b>Josh Collmenter, -33.8</p>
<p>It's not the most rec'd comment in the GDT, but MrMrribi giving permission to the Dbacks to win the game has to get CotN</p>
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<p>A quiet thread tonight, with yours truely leading the comment count with only 39 comments. Preston.salisbury and onedotfive rounded out the podium with 37 each. All present were:</p>
<p>AzDbackfanInDc, AzRattler, Clefo, DbacksSkins, DeadmanG, EzioExManAZ, GODSCHMIDT, GuruB, Jim McLennan, JoeCB1991, JoelPre, John Baragona, Makakilo, Marc Fournier, MrMrrbi, SenSurround, TolkienBard,backtocali, blank_38, cheese1213, cole8865, dsadbacks2001, hotclaws, imstillhungry95, makattack71, onedotfive,preston.salisbury, txzona</p>
<p>Early, early start time tomorrow and radio only, with a 10:10 am Arizona time start. If that's something you'd be interested in, see you then!</p>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/2014/5/7/5689534/dbacks-brewers-chris-owings-evan-marshall-paul-goldschmidtImstillhungry952014-05-06T23:18:12-04:002014-05-06T23:18:12-04:00Dbacks 7, Brewers 5
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<p>Tonight was an otherwise good game by the <a href="https://www.azsnakepit.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Diamondbacks</a> marred by one horrendous half inning where everything went wrong. Unfortunately for any enthusiasm fans may have had for this game, that half inning also happened to be the bottom of the first. Nine <a href="https://www.brewcrewball.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Brewers</a> went to the plate, five of them scored, four of them got hits, there was an error by <span>Chris Owings</span>, and an airmailed throw by <span>Ender Inciarte</span> that somehow wasn't scored as an error. By the end of the inning, the Dbacks had not only squandered the 2-0 lead that Paul Goldschmit's home run had given them, they were down by three runs.</p>
<p>The Dbacks never gave up, though. They kept clawing back, getting a run in both the fifth and sixth innings to get within a run. <span>Josh Collmenter</span> also buckled down after the rocky start to the game, going another four and two thirds scoreless innings to allow the team to get back in the game. Then, in the eighth inning, a Goldschmidt double, <span>Miguel Montero</span> single, and an <span>Aaron Hill</span> home run gave the Dbacks a 7-5 lead. Zeros in the bottom of the eighth and nine from Brad Zeigler and <span>Addison Reed</span> gave the Dbacks the win. The full (happy!) recap to follow.</p>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/2014/5/6/5689520/dbacks-7-brewers-5Imstillhungry952014-05-06T19:16:30-04:002014-05-06T19:16:30-04:00Preview: Welcome the newest Diamondbacks
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<p>Will we see Evan Marshall or Chase Anderson making their major-league debuts tonight in Milwaukee?</p> <p>
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<p>I think it would be kinda cool to see both Marshall and Anderson in the game. We have had two major-league debuts in the same contest a few times for Arizona, but it hasn't happened for a while. You've got to go back almost five years, to May 13, 2009: that game say the first major-league appearance of both Gerardo Parra and Bryan Augenstein. One of those has proved rather more successful than the other, Augensten being limited to 12 appearances, seven with Arizona and five for St. Louis. He's now in the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.blessyouboys.com/">Tigers</a>' organization, but is on the DL with an oblique strain. It seems particularly appropriate for a double debut, since tonight is also Parra's 27 birthday.</p>
<p>Good to see Pollock back in the line-up, having barely been seen since the series against Colorado - his last start was on April 29, so a week ago today. As was rumbled about in Gibson's comments, Pollock will be in left field, in an effort to help nurse his groin, which would suggest that's still not 100%. I'm not sure: part of me would rather he have been DL'd and given a chance to get completely fit, rather than potentially risk a more serious injury. However, I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV, so I'll presume the Diamondbacks know what they're doing. But between <span>Mark Trumbo</span>, a still-rehabbing <span>Cody Ross</span>, and now a sub-par Pollock, RF hasn't seen the best of health for us.</p>
<p>The other interesting thing is the promotion of Owings to second spot in the order, with Prado dropping down to sixth. Clearly, this is a reward for Owings going 0-for-3 last night. It'll be his first game in the majors as a #2 hitter: he had one outing starting in the lead-off spot earlier this year, going 1-for-4 with a pair of strikeouts on April 21st against the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/">Cubs</a>. Curious to see how this works: Owings' walk-rate, deemed a weakness in the minors, hasn't been disastrous this year: at 7.4%, it's a little lower than you'd like (major league average is 8.0%), but his overall OBP of .355 has been more than acceptable.</p>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/2014/5/6/5688868/diamondbacks-brewers-previewJim McLennan