It’s been a season of downers for the Arizona Diamondbacks, and the latest is that pitching ace Dan Haren won’t start in the 80th annual All-Star Game at Busch Stadium in St. Louis Tuesday night. National League manager Charlie Manuel, skipper of the Philadelphia Phillies, picked San Francisco Giants mop-headed phenom Tim Lincecum,…
Following Mark Reynolds’ verbal peppering of his teammates in Denver, the Arizona Diamondbacks were a different animal for fifty consecutive innings (that’s five and a half games, in case you’re counting). The team finally started playing all easy breezy, winning five straight while simultaneously climbing out of the National League…
The fans have spoken, and they have declared that the Arizona Diamondbacks’ budding slugger Mark Reynolds will not represent the National League in next week’s All-Star Game in St. Louis. Instead, it will be Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Shane Victorino filling the NL rosters’ final spot. Between the time the All-Star…
With the halfway point of the baseball season mercifully upon us, let’s sum up, shall we? It ain’t pretty. Going into the final series of the D-Backs’ miserable first half (tonight through Sunday against the Florida Marlins at Chase Field), the homeboys — picked by many preseason prognosticators to win…
The “other” guys came up big Wednesday afternoon for the Arizona Diamondbacks in a 6-2 win and series sweep over the San Diego Padres. The D-Backs’ “big guys” — Justin Upton, Mark Reynolds, and Stephen Drew — went 1-for-12 against Padres pitchers, so it was up to Gerardo Parra, little-used…
Don’t look now, but the Arizona Diamondbacks, the second-worst team in Major League Baseball, currently have the hottest win streak going in the bigs. Yes, you read that right. Our lovable hometown zeroes have triumphed in their last four games, including last night’s 4-3 win over the San Diego Padres,…
In the top half of the eighth inning at Chase Field last night, the boo birds came a-calling once again on the 2009 Arizona Diamondbacks. The pesky San Diego Padres had just padded their lead after a throwing error by catcher Miguel Montero, who was trying to prevent Everth Cabrera…
The most valuable slugger on the Arizona Diamondbacks this season is not going to play in the All-Star Game in St. Louis next week — not yet, anyway. The fans still have an opportunity to vote Mark Reynolds to be the final player named to the National League squad, but…
Really? The Arizona Diamondbacks’ bullpen — nay, their closer! — let this one get away? Really?! Forget about Clay Zavada’s losing Thursday’s game, a 3-2 defeat at the hands of the Cincinnati Reds, in the 10th inning. No, the goat here is closer Chad Qualls, who couldn’t make Doug Davis’…
Any way you slice it, Cincinnati Reds right hander Johnny Cueto is a pitching stud. As the fourth-best hurler in the National League, the 23-year-old regularly flings 98-mph heaters and has won seven of his last 10 starts, amassing a laudable 2.48 ERA thus far in the 2009 season. Intimidating,…
Following Sunday’s debacle against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, the best things that could have happened to the Arizona Diamondbacks occurred on Monday night: They got the heck out of this town and they started Dan Haren against the Cincinnati Reds Tuesday night. The usual went down in Haren’s…
The Cincinnati Reds are the very definition of mediocre with their 37-37 record — 17-17 on the road, 20-20 at home. Meanwhile, “humdrum,” “mundane,” or “dime a dozen” would be a step up for the laughable Arizona Diamondbacks, who are 30-46 and 18 sorry-ass games behind the L.A. Dodgers –…
The burgeoning superstardom of Justin Upton has been one of the few reasons (if not the only one) to tune into the Arizona Diamondbacks’ games over the last couple months. The 21-year-old’s dynamic fielding and hitting heroics this season (including 84 hits, 14 home runs, and 45 RBIs) have earned…
Mark Reynolds hit two home runs and drove in four runs on Thursday night, including a game-tying two-run shot in the eighth inning, but it wasn’t enough for the Arizona Diamondbacks as the Texas Rangers took the series following a 9-8 D-Backs loss in 12 innings. Reynolds continues to prove…
Arizona Diamondbacks left fielder Eric Byrnes will miss four to eight weeks after breaking a bone in his left hand during an at-bat in Thursday night’s game against the Texas Rangers. In the second inning, an errant pitch from the Rangers’ Scott Feldman plunked Byrnes in the hand. Byrnes stayed…
So what’s Shaq gonna be called now that he’s no longer the Big Cactus? Maybe the Big Abandoned Steel Mill or the Big Mistake By the Lake. Actually, O’Neal’s trade looks good — for LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers! But what WTF did the Phoenix Suns get out of this?…
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before.Arizona Diamondbacks ace pitcher Dan Haren supplied a strong performance last night against the Texas Rangers at Chase Field, but it proved to be a futile effort as (you guessed it) his squad came up short in the runs department once again, resulting…
NHL Player Claude Lemieux, originally from Canada, will become a U.S. citizen in a ceremony this Friday in Phoenix with 99 other immigrants. Lemieux, 43, a Valley resident, is a comeback kid who now plays with the San Jose Sharks after a stint with a People’s Republic of China team,…
After a disastrous weekend in Seattle, Max Scherzer stopped the bleeding on Tuesday night for the Arizona Diamondbacks. The young power pitcher shut down the slugging Texas Rangers, and the top of the D-Backs’ batting order poured on the offense in an 8-2 win at Chase Field. Everything that could…
Since the old Washington Senators franchise moved to Arlington, Texas, in 1972, to become the Rangers, it’s been consistently known for only two things: hitting and collapsing in the humid north Texas heat. Though the Rangers have fielded some talented teams over the years and are beloved, more or less,…
The Phoenix Coyotes ice hockey team is staying in Glendale — for now. On June 15, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Redfield T. Baum ruled that a June 29 deadline on Canadian Jim Balsillie’s bid to buy the team and move it to Canada was not workable. But Baum didn’t set auction…
The score was knotted 2-2 in the bottom of the ninth Sunday at Safeco Field in Seattle when the unthinkable happened. Well, it would’ve been unthinkable except we’re talking about the hard-luck Arizona Diamondbacks. Veteran Tony Clark, who’s about the only true first baseman the D-Backs have left because of injuries, dropped…
