Going into this game at San Diego’s Petco Park, the Diamondbacks were six games below .500 and a half-game out of last place in the not-so-great NL West division. Another one-run loss on the previous evening had hurt. Big relief pitcher Chad Qualls, whom had been a disaster zone when…
We’ll take a break now from our paean to the Arizona Diamondbacks successes in the 2011 season to get back to our regular gig digging up dirt and what-have-you. Will add five more tomorrow as the D-Backs open their best-of-five series against the Milwaukee Brewers in Wisconsin…
One of the greatest moments of the 2011 season came at Chase Field in early May against the Colorado Rockies. We were about to leave after the 7th inning with the D-Backs down 2-0 and stinking up the joint offensively, but decided to stick it out until the end–sure glad…
The Diamondbacks opened a ten-game home stand on a Monday night against arguably baseball’s best team, the Philadelphia Phillies. On paper, it was something of a mismatch, little right-hander Ian Kennedy against southpaw Cliff Lee, one of the game’s most dominating pitchers.But Kennedy was the star on this night, throwing…
We don’t have video highlights for this one, but the D-Backs’ early-season come-from-behind win over the Giants to salvage the final game of a three-game series at Chase Field was a beaut. We were there as Arizona squandered an early three-run lead to the world champs, and it looked like…
It was the kind of game that the D-Backs lost just about every time last year — a game in which they lost a lead late and had to go into extra innings.Arizona opened its season in Denver against the Rockies, a team that many pundits expected to give the…
Stayed up to watch all of the baseball games that mattered last night–which were several. May we be allowed to understate for once?Greatest finish to a regular season in the history of the game.At home, the Arizona Diamondbacks needed to win and the Milwaukee Brewers needed to lose to give…
The Arizona Diamondbacks almost pulled off another come-from-behind rally to end the regular season last night, but ultimately came up short. Despite a late-game grand slam (which seems to have become as common a base hit this week), the team lost 7-5 to the Los Angeles Dodgers at Chase Field…
We actually were compiling our list of top-20 moments and characters from the Arizona Diamondbacks’ improbable 2011 season, when (to steal a line from the great Vin Scully), the impossible happened and Ryan Roberts hit his grand-slam walk-off homer to beat the Dodgers. Scully, of course, made his legendary call when…
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…
If the Arizona Diamondbacks have any hope of surviving the upcoming postseason, they’re got to be firing on all cylinders. That includes displaying the sort of stellar pitching that got them to the playoffs in the first place, and not the poor performance put on by Daniel Hudson on Monday night…
Three games into the 2011 NFL season, and the Arizona Cardinals aren’t off to a great start — they’re now 1-2 following a 13-10 loss to the Seahawks in Seattle yesterday afternoon.Cards quarterback Kevin Kolb passed for 252 yards in the loss, but only managed to find the end zone…
A triumphant energy filled Chase Field this past weekend as the Arizona Diamondbacks swept the San Francisco Giants and won the National League West championship in the process. The D-Backs were in a mood to party all weekend as they crushed the playoff dreams of the defending World Series champions…
It’s official: The Arizona Diamondbacks are going to the playoffs. Kirk Gibson’s squad grabbed ahold of the National League West crown tonight after a hard-fought 3-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants at Chase Field. And, in what has become the norm for Arizona this season, it was a come-from-behind…
Attention all fair-weather sports fans, Johnny-come-latelys, and bandwagon riders: Arizona Diamondbacks playoff tickets are up for sale starting tomorrow morning. Even though you probably didn’t start following the team until they began dominating their division in June, now’s your chance to be in the house when this year’s astounding D-Backs…
The Arizona Diamondbacks’ recently dormant bats finally came alive this afternoon, and it couldn’t have been at a better time. The locals held on to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-5 at Chase Field in front of a lively crowd of about 25,000, all of whom seemed well-aware that the team…
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…
Arizona Diamondbacks ace Ian Kennedy pitched a one-hit masterpiece through eight innings last night at Chase Field to win his 20th game — a milestone only reached by three other Diamondbacks pitchers (Randy Johnson, Curt Schilling, and Brandon Webb) in franchise history. But, more importantly, the D-Backs’ magic number was reduced to four…
There’s good news and bad news following the Arizona Cardinals 22-21 loss to the Washington Redskins last night.The good news: after two games, Kevin Kolb seems like a legitimate quarterback. The bad news: the Cards’ defense is embarrassing.The Cardinals defense gave up 455 yards in the loss, bringing its total…
Don’t panic, Arizona Diamondbacks fans! The D-Backs may have been beaten by the San Diego Padres twice over the weekend, but they aren’t anywhere close to staging a late-season collapse (ala the New York Mets) anytime soon. The D-Backs suffered back-to-back losses against San Diego on Friday and Saturday, which…
Gerardo Parra might be a hero to the Arizona Diamondbacks faithful at Chase Field, but at Chavez Ravine he was pretty much public enemy number one last night. Fans of the Los Angeles Dodgers treated the D-Backs outfielder to a chorus of boos while their team defeated Arizona 3-2 on…
Every special season has its extra-special moments, and last night’s seventh-inning homer by Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Gerardo Parra was one of them. The D-Backs were down 4-3 to the Los Angeles Dodgers when the scrappy Parra stepped to the plate against reliever Hong-Chih Kuo. Parra had batted against the hard-throwing…
