AZ Snake Pit - Game #61: Diamondbacks 16, Rockies 8An unofficial Arizona Diamondbacks community and bloghttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/47033/azsnakepit_f.png2014-06-05T04:10:59-04:00http://www.azsnakepit.com/rss/stream/55449252014-06-05T04:10:59-04:002014-06-05T04:10:59-04:00DBacks 16, Rockies 8: Another Coors Field Duel
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<p>34 hits, 24 runs. Forget it, Jake. It's Coors Field.</p> <h4><span>Record: 25-36 On Pace: 66-96 Change on '04/'10'/'13: 0/+1/-10</span></h4>
<p>Well, that was eventful.</p>
<p>The DBacks started the game off with a blast- literally, as <span>Didi Gregorius</span> celebrated his return to the majors with a lead-off home run to give the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.azsnakepit.com/">Diamondbacks</a> a 1-0 lead right out of the gate. Coors Field, huh? <span>Gerardo Parra</span> followed that with a single and being picked off first, but a walk to <span>Paul Goldschmidt</span> gave us a runner on anyway. We got a gift from the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.purplerow.com/">Rockies</a>, as <span>Charlie Culberson</span> threw away a ball on <span>Martin Prado's</span> grounder, letting Goldy reach third and Prado take second. A sacrifice fly <span>Miguel Montero</span> brought in Goldschmidt and moved Prado to third, where he scored on a wild pitch. 3-0 before our defense had even taken the field.</p>
<p>Things were a bit quieter for the next inning and a half. <span>Josh Collmenter</span> walked the first batter he faced, but got the next three out in the bottom of the first, <span>Ender Inciarte</span> was thrown out trying to turn a single into a double in the second, and a <span>Wilin Rosario</span> double was wasted in the bottom of the second for Colorado.</p>
<p>But the scoring flared up again in the third inning for Arizona. Gerardo Parra started it off with a double, and then moved up to third base on Goldy's fly out. Martin Prado singled to left, bringing in Parra to score, though that was contested play, and one that looks like it'll cost the Rockies more than just a run- <span>Jordan Lyles</span>, their starter, tried to tag Parra at the plate, but was too late, and seemed to have hurt himself on the play. But he stayed in the game, getting out of the inning and then going through the DBacks 1-2-3 in the fourth. He left with a 4-0, and after the game was found to have broken his left hand. While still pitching for two more innings. I mean, it's not Chris Snyder-levels of playing through the pain, but still impressive.</p>
<p>Unfortunately for Lyle and Collmenter, the Rockies started turning it around in the fifth inning. It started with a walk to <span>Franklin Morales</span> to lead off the bottom of the fifth, and was followed by singles from <span>Charlie Blackmon</span> and Charlie Dickerson. Bases loaded, nobody out, and <span>Troy Tulowitzki</span> at the plate... It didn't go well. A double to deep center brought in two runs, and then a single by <span>Michael Cuddyer</span> scored two more to tie it at 4 runs apiece. Collmenter worked around the rest of the inning to get out without giving up another run, but that was it for his start. Not quite up to the standards of his last start.</p>
<p><span>Randall Delgado</span> replaced Collmenter, and gave us a 1-2-3 inning in the bottom of the sixth, and the Rockies replaced Franklin Morales in the seventh, to the delight of the DBacks offense. <span>Boone Logan</span> came in to face lefthanders Gregorius and Parra, getting Didi to K, but giving Gerardo a free base with a walk. <span>Adam Ottavino</span> came in to strike out Goldschmidt, but then hit Prado with a pitch, and gave a single to Miguel Montero, scoring Parra from second. 5-4, Diamondbacks!</p>
<p>But, then again, we're in Coors Field, where a one run lead is worth the paper this blog is printed one, and Delgado started off with problems after the seventh inning stretch. A single to Tulo and a double to Cuddyer gave the Rockies the tying and go-ahead runs in scoring position, and brought Delgado's outing to an end, with <span>Joe Thatcher</span> coming in to replace him. Thatcher got <span>Justin Morneau</span> to pop out, and then was pulled in a double swap that pulled <span>Aaron Hill</span>, moved Didi to second base, and brought in <span>Chris Owings</span> at shortstop and <span>Brad Ziegler</span> to pitch. Rosario was given an intentional walk to set up the out at any base. The Rockies called on former DBack, <span>Ryan Wheeler</span>, or as we call him, used-to-be-Good-Wheeler. Fortunately, he grounded up the middle and Gregorius fired back to home to get the lead runner for the second out of the inning! Huzzah!</p>
<p>Except there were only two outs in the inning. And it went bad from there.</p>
<p><span>DJ LeMahieu</span> grounded to Chris Owings, and Owings's throw got away from Didi as they tried to get Wheeler at second. Two runs came in, and the Rockies had runners on second and third. In your standard Coor Field scoring decision, they gave LeMahieu a single and an RBI, then let everyone else advance a base on the error. Oooookay. Drew Stubbs came in to pinch hit, and singled to score two more runs for the Rockies before Ziegler got his last out, letting the Rockies go into the eighth inning with a 8-5 lead.</p>
<p>Don't worry, kids. It gets good from here.</p>
<p><span>Rex Brothers</span> came in to take the eighth inning for the Rockies, and... Gave up a single to David Peralta. Gave up a single to Ender Inciarte. Gave up a single to Chris Owings, which scored Peralta. Gave up a single to Didi Gregorius, which loaded the bases. And wrapped it up by walking Gerardo Parra to bring in a second run. Suddenly, Colorado's lead had been cut to 8-7, and the bases were still loaded for Arizona. Nick Masset replaced Brothers, and gave up a bases clearing double to Goldschmidt, putting Arizona up 10-8. Goldy scored later on a sacrifice fly from Montero to stretch that lead to three runs.</p>
<p>For his part in the eighth inning, Rex Brothers ended up getting hit with five earned runs, while getting zero outs- his ERA went up almost two whole points, from 3.76 to 5.47.</p>
<p>But it wasn't over yet for the Arizona offense. After Colorado couldn't take advantage of a two out walk in the bottom of the eighth, <span>Matt Belisle</span> came in to cover the ninth for the Rockies. He got two outs to start it off, but Didi singled to keep the inning going. Parra followed that with a double to score Didi, and then came in to score on a single by Goldschmidt. Prado reached on a single of his own, and then, moments after a Rockies fan could be heard on the broadcast yelling "Just swing at it, I want to go home!" Miguel Montero swung at it, and parked a ball over the fence in left field, bringing in three runs and pushing the score to 16-8.</p>
<p>Cahill came in for the ninth, and the Rockies seemed to want to go home as much as that fan, going down 1-2-3 and dropping their sixth game in a row, as the Diamondbacks took the second game to win the series.</p>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><b style="font-size: 9pt;">The Four Horsemen: Paul Goldschmidt (+24.9%), Gerardo Parra (+24.4%),</b></b></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 9pt;">Martin Prado (+21%), Miguel Montero (+20.4%)</b></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span>Ronnie Soak: Didi Gregorius (+17.2%)</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i><i style="font-size: 9pt;">Uhhh...: Brad Ziegler (-36%), Randall Delgado (-20%), Josh Collmenter (-17.7%)</i></i></div>
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<p>A pretty busy thread, with DBacksSkins taking the lead in comments, and TolkienBard in second as the only other commenter to hit triple digits. We also were visited by AJV19, Augdogs, Circa4life, Clefo, Diamondhacks, Fangdango, GODSCHMIDT, GuruB, Jim McLennan, JoeCB1991, Rockkstarr12, SebSwo, SenSurround, asteroid, cheese1213, cole8865, frienetic, grimmy01, hotclaws, kishi, makattack71, onedotfive, porty99, preston.salisbury, rfffr, shoewizard, txzona, and xmet.</p>
<p>Only one comment went <strike>green</strike> pinkish today, and that goes to our Tucsonian prognosticator:</p>
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<p>Could be worse, Steve, at least you didn't make a domestic violence joke.</p>
<p>So a series win, and a shot at sweeping the series from Colorado tomorrow. Here's hoping, DBacks.</p>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/2014/6/5/5781828/dbacks-16-rockies-8-still-no-extra-tacos-even-for-scoring-so-manyDevin Jessup2014-06-05T00:48:40-04:002014-06-05T00:48:40-04:00Diamondbacks 16, Rockies 8
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<p>The <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.azsnakepit.com/">Diamondbacks</a> started the scoring off right away with a solo home run from <span>Didi Gregorius</span> to start the game, and then just kept the offensive onslaught going until the end of the game. The <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.purplerow.com/">Rockies</a> held a lead as late as the start of the eighth inning, but Arizona put the pedal down, scoring six runs in the eighth inning and another five runs in the ninth. Arizona put up 21 hits on the night, and <span>Miguel Montero</span> put up 6 RBIs, including a three run home run in the ninth inning, while <span>Paul Goldschmidt</span> had 4 RBIs on the night.</p>
<p><span>Josh Collmenter</span> started for Arizona, giving up four runs in five innings. <span>Brad Ziegler</span> picked up the win in relief. By taking the game, the Diamondbacks win the series against the Rockies, giving them their sixth loss in a row, and go into tomorrow's game looking for a potential sweep.</p>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/2014/6/5/5781684/diamondbacks-16-rockies-8Devin Jessup2014-06-04T19:00:13-04:002014-06-04T19:00:13-04:00Preview: A leadoff hitter with zero stolen bases?
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<p>The Diamondbacks will be trying something new this evening at the top of the order, as Didi Gregorius makes his first start since being recalled from Reno. </p> <p>
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<li> <span>Didi Gregorius</span> - SS </li>
<li> <span>Gerardo Parra</span> - RF </li>
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<li> <span>Aaron Hill</span> - 2B </li>
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<p>An interesting line-up, with Gregorius coming up from Reno and being inserted at #1 with a bullet. That will be a new experience in the majors, because he has never hit leadoff before. He has tended to see a decent number of pitches - his average for the Diamondbacks is 4.07 per plate-appearance, compared to MLB average of 3.83. But a possible factor in that, is about half of Didi's playing time to date has been in the #8 spot, where you are more likely to be pitched around in the National League. I think it's trying to take advantage of his good numbers against RHP, where Gregorius has a .355 on-base percentage.</p>
<p>However, he's not exactly what you'd call a base-stealer: two career attempts, both of them failures. Indeed, only four Diamondback non-pitchers have had more PAs for Arizona without a successful steal: today's trivia question, can you name them? [Answer at the end] There can't be many teams who have ever played a leadoff hitter who has never stolen a base in the majors - well, with the exception of Billy Hamilton's first ever game, I supposed. Gregorius has been slightly better with the Aces this year, going 3-0 in SB attempts, but I would be quite surprised to see him trying to do too much at Coors this evening.</p>
<p>Collmenter will have a lot to live up to, after his last start proved to be quite the one for the record books, becoming only the second Diamondback ever to face the minimum in a complete game, as he blanked the Reds at Chase Field. As we saw yesterday, the Rockies have been ferocious on offense at home, but Chase Anderson showed that their lumber can be quieted. If Collmenter can execute as well as he did on Thursday night, I'm hopeful we can come away with another victory, setting us up for a possible sweep tomorrow</p>
<p><b>Trivia answer<i>. </i></b>The four Diamondbacks with more PAs than Gregorius's 409, but no stolen bases for Arizona are: <span>Johnny Estrada</span> (443), <span>Adam LaRoche</span> (615), <span>Tony Clark</span> (940), and <span>Chris Snyder</span> (an impressive 1,916!). Snyder's career tally, across all clubs, of 2,459 PAs without a stolen-base is second in the past century, trailing only fellow catcher Russ Nixon, who went 2,715 PAs in his career, between 1957 and 1968.</p>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/2014/6/4/5780684/diamondbacks-rockies-previewJim McLennan