Unless you’re a huge follower of Major League Baseball, there’s probably only one reason you’d know the name of umpire Jim Joyce — two seasons ago, he blew a call in the bottom of the ninth inning to deny Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga a perfect game.Joyce later apologized to…
Joe Saunders probably wishes that last night’s Arizona Diamondbacks loss to the Miami Marlins never, ever took place. Especially since the southpaw starting pitcher gave up a whopping nine earned runs to the Florida team on Monday evening at Chase Field and laid the groundwork for an epic 12-3 drubbing…
The Arizona Diamondbacks swept the minor-leaguers known as the Houston Astros in a three-game weekend series, The Astros kept it almost-close in one of the games, but the D-backs put up 23 runs over the three games, compared to the Astros’ five…
The Arizona Diamondbacks once again tasted defeat at the hands of the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday, falling to the defending World Series champs by a score of 5-2. As bad as it was for the D-backs to rack up yet another loss — their eighth defeat in the last…
The Arizona Diamondbacks were on the receiving end of a major league ass kicking during their 8-2 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night at Busch Stadium. As a result, the Snakes dropped back to the .500 mark and lost ground in their quest for a post-season berth…
The team with the best record in baseball took two out of three games at Chase Field over the weekend. The Washington Nationals overmatched the Arizona Diamondbacks in their Friday and Saturday wins before being shut down on Sunday by D-backs rookie Patrick Corbin. In Friday’s 9-1 loss, there was…
Jason Kubel walloped a pair of homers on Thursday night to help the Arizona Diamondbacks trounce the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-3 at PNC Park. The win allowed the Snakes to split their four-game series with the Bucs and keep in the hunt for the postseason. Kubel notched his 24th moonshot of…
Chris Johnson hit two more home runs Tuesday night as the Arizona Diamondbacks stopped a three-game losing streak by beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 10-4. Johnson, who has been with the team only a week, now has five home runs and 15 RBI, in his eight games as the D-backs’ third…
The Arizona Diamondbacks game last night looked like another bad remake of the Bad News Bears.While being shut-out by the Pittsburgh Pirates isn’t embarrassing like it once was, most of last night’s 4-0 loss for the Diamondbacks was hard to watch.The Pirates’ Erik Bedard is a completely average MLB pitcher…
A weekend full of high hopes ended on a low note for the Arizona Diamondbacks, who lost a three-game series to the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. In a two-steps-forward, one-step-back kind of situation, the D-backs moved within two games of the NL West leaders on Friday, but after…
Football is finally back — although it seems like it never left if you’ve been watching coverage of the New York Jets’ training camp — as the Arizona Cardinals kicked off the NFL preseason with a 17-10 loss to the New Orleans Saints.Quarterback Kevin Kolb completed one of his four…
Rookie left-hander Patrick Corbin, making his first start since being recalled from Triple-A Reno, stifled the Los Angeles Dodgers (and their new high-profile acquisitions Shane Victorino and Hanley Ramirez) on Wednesday afternoon to complete a three-game sweep in L.A. Patrick pitched six innings of two-hit shutout ball, and three relievers…
See also: Arizona Diamondbacks Trade for Peanuts as MLB Trade Deadline Passes See also: Arizona Diamondbacks Creep Toward Division Leaders After Win Over Los Angeles Dodgers It was certainly a busy Tuesday for the Arizona Diamondbacks. After the front office scrambled around yesterday afternoon in an (ultimately futile) effort to…
Despite several of the big-name players for the Arizona Diamondbacks being mentioned in trade rumors, the non-waiver trade deadline passed this afternoon, and they’re still Diamondbacks.Instead, the D-backs opted to trade Yale-educated lefty Craig Breslow to the Boston Red Sox for reliever Matt Albers and outfielder Scott Podsednik. (Scott Podsednik?)Breslow…
We’re not that far removed from the All Star Game, but with the Arizona Diamondbacks beating the Los Angeles Dodgers last night — and the San Francisco Giants losing as well — the National League West is about to have a good old-fashioned pennant race.The Diamondbacks are now 3 1/2…
The Arizona Diamondbacks took two of three games from the New York Mets this past weekend at Chase Field, winning Friday and Saturday night with a flurry of offense. The D-backs probably should’ve saved a few runs for Sunday, however, as they were defeated 5-1 by New York yesterday afternoon…
The Arizona Diamondbacks faced a pitcher who was showing up in the big leagues for the first time — and he dominated.Matt Harvey pitched 5 1/3 innings last night at Chase Field, striking out 11, while giving up just three hits and zero runs.The Diamondbacks had opportunity (after opportunity, after…
The Arizona Diamondbacks have been hot lately — scoring at least six runs in their previous seven games — but the hot spell fizzled out last night, when the ‘Backs lost the third and final game in a home series against the Colorado Rockies. Right-handed pitcher Trevor Cahill had another…
The Arizona Diamondbacks won their fifth game in a row Tuesday night at Chase Field, beating the Colorado Rockies 6-2 behind starting pitcher Joe Saunders’ seven-inning, nine-strikeout performance. The D-backs moved over .500 and stayed within six games of the first-place San Francisco Giants in the National League West and…
See Also: Destiny’s Child See Also: Winning Season It doesn’t seem that long ago, but it’s almost been a decade since a precocious freshman basketball player named Ike Diogu led Arizona State University to the second-round of the NCAA championships. His given name was Ikechukwu Somtochukwu Diogu, and he grew…
The Arizona Diamondbacks’ two hottest hitters, Jason Kubel and Aaron Hill, went a combined 0-for-8 last night.The D-backs still beat the Colorado Rockies 6-3 at Chase Field.D-Backs starter Ian Kennedy drove in three runs on a standing triple — to repeat, Ian Kennedy drove in three runs on a triple…
These days, the once-proud Houston Astros are more like a Triple-A minor league franchise than a bona fide big-league team. So when the `Stros came to town over the weekend, it was welcome news for the up-and-down Arizona Diamondbacks, who are (or should be) in desperation mode now as the…
