The Arizona Diamondbacks continued to seemingly regain their footing in the young season as they beat the Washington Nationals in D.C. on Tuesday. Unfortunately for the Nats, it was their fifth-straight loss and the home debut of baseball’s top prospect, 19-year-old left fielder Bryce Harper. For the D-Backs, it was…

After dominating their first two series of the year, the Arizona Diamondbacks were humbled slightly in a chilly weekend series that saw the Colorado Rockies take two of three games in Denver. It was the D-Backs’ vaunted bullpen that coughed up Friday and Saturday’s one-run losses, 7-6 and 8-7, respectively…

The Phoenix Suns kept their slim playoff hopes alive by outlasting the Sacramento Kings 109-100 on Tuesday night in California. As they have for weeks now, the Suns still hold 10th place in the NBA’s Western Conference race. At 27-26 and 13 games left to play, the Suns are a…

The Phoenix Suns stayed alive in the hunt for a Western Conference playoff bid after two big weekend wins. On Friday night, the Suns edged out a good Indiana Pacers team 113-111, and on Sunday afternoon in Cleveland, they demolished the Cavaliers 108-83. The two wins give the Suns a…

The Phoenix Suns, looking for their fifth-straight win, had a 10-point fourth-quarter lead on one of the NBA’s best teams but lost 99-95 to the Miami Heat in Florida on Tuesday night. Over the last 7:28 of the game, the Suns missed 15 of 17 shots, allowing the Heat to…

Suddenly, the Suns are surging. But even with their fifth straight home win — a 98-91 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies — the Suns are still two games under .500 and several games back from 2.5 games out of the eighth seed in the NBA’s Western Conference playoff picture…

The Phoenix Suns dropped to 12-17 on the season Tuesday as the Denver Nuggets handed the Suns a 109-92 road loss. The Suns aren’t that good this season, obviously, and without Grant Hill and, especially, Steve Nash in the lineup, you can pretty much forget about winning…

The Phoenix Suns split their road-home series this weekend with a 99-81 loss on the road to the Houston Rockets on Friday and a 95-89 home win over the lowly Charlotte Bobcats. After the weekend’s action, the Suns stand at 9-14, which is 3.5 games out of a playoff spot…

The Toronto Raptors had lost 14 straight games to the Phoenix Suns dating back to 2004. Clearly, the good old days have long past for the Suns, who lost 99-96 to the perennial doormat Raptors on Tuesday night at US Airways Center. It was only the fifth win of the…

Steve Nash, rumored to be a free-agent target of the New York Knicks in the upcoming offseason, scored 26 points against the Knicks on Wednesday night in New York as the Phoenix Suns broke a five-game losing streak. The 91-88 final score extended the struggling Knicks’ losing skid to four…

The Phoenix Suns used the weekend to even up their season record at 4-4 with home wins over the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday and Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday. The Suns topped 100 points in each contest, with Steve Nash scoring 17 points in Friday’s 102-77 nationally televised blowout and…

When the Arizona Diamondbacks return to Chase Field on Tuesday for Game Three of the National League Division Series, it will be a do-or-die situation after a disappointing weekend in Milwaukee. While every other team in the 2011 playoffs split over the weekend, the D-Backs were swept and now find…

Ryan Roberts hit a walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the 10th inning Tuesday night at Chase Field to keep the Arizona Diamondbacks in the hunt for home-field advantage in the first round the National League Division Series, which starts Saturday. The 7-6 win was the D-Backs’ league-leading 48th…

Are the Arizona Diamondbacks stumbling, rather than charging, into the playoffs? After losing 5-3 to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night at Chase Field — the D-Backs’ fourth loss in their past six games — it appears they may be a little wobbly as they get a little closer to…

With the 2001 world champs looking on, the Arizona Diamondbacks took care of business yet again this weekend on their unlikely march toward the National League West title. This time, their victims were the lowly San Diego Padres, who were stunned by D-Back comebacks on Friday and Saturday before finally…

Don’t look now, but the best one-two pitching punch in the National League just may belong to the Arizona Diamondbacks. A night after Ian Kennedy won his 17th game, Daniel Hudson followed up with a gem of his own Monday night against the Colorado Rockies at Chase Field, as the…

In one of the Arizona Diamondbacks’ most improbable comebacks of the season, newly acquired first baseman Lyle Overbay ripped a two-run, ninth-inning triple off the Philadelphia Phillies’ Roy Halladay to give the D-Backs a 3-2 lead on Tuesday at Citizens Bank Ballpark. Halladay, as usual, had been dominant, striking out…

Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Josh Collmenter got a much-needed bounce-back performance Wednesday night as the D-Backs won their second straight against the lowly Houston Astros at the woefully underattended Chase Field. Collmenter had been downright awful in previous two starts, giving up 11 runs in just six innings. But in…

Sure, losing two of three to an inferior team feels pretty bad, but at least the weekend series for the Arizona Diamondbacks wasn’t a complete disaster. That’s because the San Francisco Giants, who led the D-Backs by .5 games heading into the weekend, exited the weekend still leading by only…

Joe Saunders needed only 99 pitches to dispatch the lowly San Diego Padres Tuesday night at Petco Park as the Arizona Diamondbacks won their third straight in a 6-1 victory. Saunders, the 30-year-old veteran lefty who wasn’t expected to contribute much for the D-Backs this year, has quietly become a…