AZ Snake Pit - Game #95: 7/24, Arizona Diamondbacks 1, Milwaukee Brewers 2An unofficial Arizona Diamondbacks community and bloghttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/47033/azsnakepit_f.png2015-07-25T00:44:00-04:00http://www.azsnakepit.com/rss/stream/88021522015-07-25T00:44:00-04:002015-07-25T00:44:00-04:00D-backs 1, Brewers 2: Beer Before Convention-Cap
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<p>Of course, we couldn't have a series against the Brewers without a beer-cap, could we? And we even have found an appropriately beer-cappy picture to go with it....</p> <p><b>Record: 44-51. Pace: 75-87. Change on 2014: +4.</b></p>
<h5>Beer 1: HBC Experimental Hopped Four Hopsmen Session Pale Ale by Oskar Blues</h5>
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<li>Blah blah beer. Blah blah blah gross. That's Jerry telling me how awful this beer is when in fact, for a session, it's delicious. Oskar Blues made a series of different takes on this beer, each dry hopped with a experimental variety of hops.</li>
<li>Got a convention in Orlando to get to early tomorrow. Not looking forward to the mugginess, but I'm make the best of it. In the meantime, there is baseball.</li>
<li>Corbin back on the mound again and some great Ahmed defense behind him helps keeps the first under control.</li>
<li>Gomez strikes out in hilarious fashion. BP might hire him as a drill bit, as he was spinning so hard on that pitch.</li>
<li>Inciarte must be six kinds of pissed off after that HIT. I put that in caps, because clearly the senior citizen foul ball dude didn't get the message that that was a fair ball. LOL. Much lol.</li>
<li>I'll take a double I guess, even a strange one like that.</li>
<li>Goldy battles and battles, like the Great God of Baseball War he is. His efforts didn't deliver a hit, but a walk I can live with.</li>
<li>Pollack strikes out as does Perralta, but Goldy and Inciarte are on second and third......with Owings up. Sorry folks, but I have very little hope in his bat. <br> </li>
<li>My fears are confirmed as Owings SWINGS AT EVERYTHING OUTSIDE THE ZONE!!!!!</li>
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<h5>Beer 2: Dales Pal Ale by Oskar Blues</h5>
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<li>Oldy but a goody. It says pale ale, but this an IPA all the way. Love it.</li>
<li>Jerry just informed me that the Brewers are the hottest team in baseball, to which I retort that they're cellar dwellers. To which Jerry says "They're playing .500 ball!!!!!! I watch TV!!!"<br> </li>
<li>Jerry, who's entertaining as *&^% tonight informs the entire bar that he requires a joint. Like now. Good times.</li>
<li>Capt Steroid with an excellent fly-out ends the top of the 3rd. Still 0-0 and still bitter about losing the playoff series to the brewers all those years ago.<br> </li>
<li>Two hits and a double steal with Goldy up? Perhaps the bottom of the 3rd will have good things instead. <br> </li>
<li>Nope. Goldy walks and then Peralta hits to the pitcher resulting in an inning ending double play. $^$^#@#**$#*&@&*@&@*&&@&$^&^</li>
<li>Corbin still putting up zeros and embarrassing Brewers. God how I hope his careers picks up where it left off before the injury. We need that to happen. <br> </li>
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<h5>Beer 3: Barrel Thief Imperial Oak Aged IPA by Odell Brewing</h5>
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<li>Needed to kick it up a notch considering our offense is gradually driving me insane.</li>
<li>Jerry and I are debating the merits of cheap burritos in this strip mall where Papago resides. There is really nothing to debate, burritos are God's gift to mankind and drunk people.</li>
<li>Corbin at least keeps this team looking good and the Brewers looking bad. A little offense would be nice. Still 0-0 going into the bottom of the 5th.<br> </li>
<li>Nelson, despite throwing all over the place, is still running scoreless game. How? Damned if I know. </li>
<li>Corbin tries to be sneaky with the butcher boy at bat, but fails at life and hits into a double play. Seriously. How are we not lighting up Nelson? HOW!?!????!</li>
<li>All good things come to an end I guess. Braun ruins my night with a solo shot to right field. Thanks cheater. 0-1 Brewers</li>
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<h5>Beer 4: Hop Head Farms Experimental Hop Four Hopsmen Dry Hopped Session Pale Ale</h5>
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<li>I like these beers and they are nom nom nom. Hurray beer.</li>
<li>Jerry is f'ed up and constantly insisting that we should go to the Jerry Garcia Memorial Disc Golf Tournament. Yes, this is a thing.</li>
<li>F this noise. Seriously. We just can't buy a run. Not even one. This is madness. 0-1 Brewers going into the 7th.</li>
<li>Corbin leaves the game with 10k's. To say this was an epic game for him would be an understatement. The silver lining to this otherwise frustrating game.</li>
<li>Still another scoreless Dbacks half, yay. This team drives a man to drink.</li>
<li>Closing out, this game is too damn long and I got to get up too early.</li>
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<h5>Beer 5 (to-go): Habenero Sculpin IPA by Ballast</h5>
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<li>Yea I'm still here. For now.</li>
<li>Alright, I got to go. 630am flight to catch.</li>
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<p><b>Bells and whistles, by Jim</b></p>
<p>The eighth inning was worked by Daniel Hudson, who put up a zero, and the ninth by Brad Ziegler, who did not, as a single came around to score on a sacrifice, a ground-out and a wild-pitch. It was the first run charged to Ziegler since June 3, and I can't help wondering if it also being the first time Oscar Hernandez had caught Ziegler, might have played into this a bit. It proved a huge insurance run, as Chris Owings lead-off triple in the bottom of the ninth, came home one out later on a sacrifice fly by Nick Ahmed, but Welington Castillo grounded out, and the game was lost.</p>
<p>Ender inciarte had a good game, getting three of the Diamondbacks eight hits; Paul Goldschmidt reached base three times, on a hit and two walks, and Hernandez got a hit and a walk. But we went 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position, and most credit likely goes to Corbin, who tied a career high with ten strikeouts, and even though this was the Brewers, showed further palpable improvement on his return from TJ. That's some comfort to take away from a defeat which is all the more irritating for getting more hits and striking out fewer times than the opposition.</p>
<p align="center"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.fangraphs.com/livewins.aspx?date=2015-07-24&team=Diamondbacks&dh=0&season=2015"><img src="https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/3906280/chart.0.png" alt="Fangraph"></a><br>[<i>Click for details, at Fangraphs.com</i>]<br><b>San Diego Comic-Con: Ender Inciarte, +27.2%<br></b>Phoenix Comic-Con: Patrick Corbin, +22.8%<br><i><b>Confidence Trickster: A.J. Pollock, -24.9%<br></b>Con-fusion: Peralta, -21.4%; Lamb, -19.7%; Ahmed, -13.9%</i></p>
<p>A lightly-trafficked GDT, with 230 comments on a Friday night. preston.salisbury led the way, ahead of GuruB and noblevillain, with others seen including: Clefo, James Attwood, Jim McLennan, JoeCB1991, Majabe, MrMrrbi, asteroid, datr22, ford.williams.10, freeland1787, gamepass, hotclaws, imstillhungry95, piratedan7, shoewizard, soco, thunderpumpkin87 and xmet. Comment of the Thread to Joe:</p>
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<h2 class="title collapse_toggle ">A sign that your pitching is bad</h2>
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<p>Is when Owings manages to reach a 3 ball count against you</p>
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<p>Cards/Bears/Suns/D-Backs/Yotes/Sun Devils</p>
<p>Carson Palmer, <a href="http://i.imgur.com/oMAjo7G.png">he goes long</a></p>
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<p>Tomorrow, we'll see if the offense shows up. Rubby de la Rosa starts for the D-backs, on Randy Johnson Hall of Fame Bobblehead Night at Chase.</p>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/2015/7/25/9038345/beer-before-convention-capTurambar2015-07-25T00:38:16-04:002015-07-25T00:38:16-04:00Diamondbacks 1, Brewers 2
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<p>Patrick Corbin had easily the best start of his return. Unfortunately, the offense was the very opposite of clutch.</p> <p>Let's start with the good. <span>Patrick Corbin</span> went seven innings tonight, allowing four hits and one walk, while striking out 10. That tied a career high for Corbin, managed four times during the 2013 campaign. He finished the night virtually at his expected limit, having thrown 88 good pitches... And, unfortunately, a bad one, to lead off the sixth inning, which Lyin' Ryan Braun deposited in the bleachers. The D-backs immediately appealed the play, and we're waiting for the urine test results now. After a scoreless eight from <span>Daniel Hudson</span>, <span>Brad Ziegler</span> allowed his first run in forever, a Brewer scurrying home on a wild pitch.</p>
<p>The <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.azsnakepit.com/">Diamondbacks</a> offense could do absolutely nothing productive against <span>Jimmy Nelson</span>, or when it looked like they might, a double-play killed the rally. This was most apparent in the third, when we loaded the bases with one out, only for <span>David Peralta</span> to hit a comeback, which started the old 1-2-3 twin-killing. We did get on the board in the ninth, a <span>Nick Ahmed</span> sacrifice fly scoring <span>Chris Owings</span>, but that was it. <span>Ender Inciarte</span> had three hits, and <span>Paul Goldschmidt</span> was on base three times, with a hit and a pair of walks.</p>
<p>Turambar will be along in a bit with a beer-cap!</p>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/2015/7/25/9038593/diamondbacks-brewers-scoreJim McLennan2015-07-24T20:00:03-04:002015-07-24T20:00:03-04:00Game #95 Preview: 7/24, D-backs vs. Brewers
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<p>Can we make it - dare we hope - two wins in a row?</p>
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<p>After the ecstatic high of last night's game, which has to be one of the highlights of the season [particularly if you left before <span>Dominic Leone</span> was gnawed upon by Lyin' Ryan], we'll see if Corbin can get the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.azsnakepit.com/">Diamondbacks</a> started on a streak of the nice kind, which they haven't seen for more than two weeks. It was nice also to have a blowout win: even with Leone helping make the final score more respectable for the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.brewcrewball.com/">Brewers</a> than they probably deserved, it was still the Diamondbacks' biggest margin of victory for <i>three</i> weeks, dating back to the 8-1 crushing of the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.purplerow.com/">Rockies</a> on July 2, which opened that series victory.</p>
<p>I'm hopeful we will be able to make it two in a row: Corbin has faced Milwaukee twice, and won both times, although those were an age and another UCL ago, back in 2013. He was particularly dominant the second time, fanning 10 over 6.2 innings of one-run ball. But the wheel has turned for the Brewers too, and they only have four position players who have ever faced Corbin. Meanwhile, we handled Nelson well enough when we saw him in late May, to the tune of four runs over six innings, though he escaped with a no-decision, in a contest which was won by the Diamondbacks, 7-5.</p>
<p>Good to see Peralta back in the line-up; seems he could probably have gone yesterday, but there wasn't any need for anything other than a day off. Interesting to see Hernandez getting to start, for the third game in a row. It's especially interesting, considering how little he was seen in the first two weeks on the roster - from his official call-up on July 4 until his start on July 18, he got exactly one pinch-run appearance! Fun fact: at three days after his 22nd birthday, he was the fourth-youngest major-league debutant for Arizona, behind Justin Upton (natch), Jerry Gll and Josh Kroeger</p>
https://www.azsnakepit.com/2015/7/24/9037881/arizona-diamondbacks-milwaukee-brewers-previewJim McLennan