We’re sure even Harry Houdini had his off days. During the Arizona Diamondbacks’ 7-2 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday night, Doug Davis, the D-Backs’ master escapist of disaster, did coax Dodger hitters into a double and a triple play, but other than that, his effort through 4…
www.mlb.com Justin Upton hits two homers in as many days this weekend, but the D-Backs lose Sunday. It was a four-game series that ended on a shadowy Texas Leaguer by Milwaukee Brewers center-fielder Mike Cameron. The Arizona Diamondbacks won two of three over the weekend behind the pitching of Jon…
We can’t say for sure, but we’re guessing you’re sick of the Arizona Diamondbacks’ bullpen going all Gregg Olson nearly every game. The latest debacle occurred last night during game one of the D-Backs’ four-game series against the Milwaukee Brewers. Behind a boisterous Miller Park contingent, the Brew Crew rallied…
Schlemiel, schlemazel, Hasenfeffer Incorporated . . . It’s temptingly easy to dis Milwacky — er, Milwaukee — a small-market town that’s home to Laverne De Fazio, Shirley Feeney, the Fonz, happy drunks, mutant sausage racing, folks who actually buy into the burg’s Chamber of Commerce nickname (“The German Athens of…
Sports fans, particularly baseball fans, love to play “What If?” So, what if Brandon Webb were not stuck on the disabled list for the first month (and, perhaps, two months) of the season? What if? Would the D-Backs be keeping pace with the NL West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers as we…
Turnabout, as they say, is fair play. A mere 24 hours after routing the Chicago Cubs, 7-2, on Monday, the Arizona Diamondbacks got a taste of their own medicine last night in the form of an 11-3 drubbing by the Windy City sluggers. So long, winning streak, we hardly knew…
If only. That’s the phrase on a lot of D-Backs’ fans minds as the painful first month of the 2009 season nears its close. If only Brandon Webb wasn’t going to be out for at least six more weeks. If only Arizona could manufacture a consistent stream of runs per…
After a couple of truly dismal games on Friday and Saturday, the Arizona Diamondbacks showed Sunday why we can’t quite write them off and why there’s still reason to believe (though they’ll probably continue to drive us crazy all season long) in a team loaded with some of the best young talent…
Anybody else get the feeling it’s gonna be one long-ass summer? So the D-Backs finally won a series, and Dan “Hard Luck” Haren finally won a game (while lowering his ERA to a Bob Gibson-like 1.38). If their two-out-of-three set against the Colorado Rockies that concluded Wednesday provided a much-needed…
It appeared as if it would be more of the same Wednesday as the weak-hitting Arizona Diamondbacks failed to help out their de facto ace, Dan “Hard Luck” Haren. The righty (whose 1.89 ERA entering the game was ninth-best in baseball among starters) was dealing for six innings, keeping the…
Arizona Diamondbacks fans, meet your newest scapegoats: Bobby Korecky, Doug Slaten, Juan Gutierrez, and Jon Rauch. What’s their crime? The quartet of relief pitchers collectively screwed the D-Backs out of a two-game win streak (not to mention their first series clinch of the season) by blowing a three-run lead and…
Six runs in a single baseball game isn’t exactly an offensive blitzkrieg, but when you’re the Arizona Diamondbacks, a half-dozen revolutions around the base path is huge. Especially considering that the team had only managed to cough up two stinking runs in the past 31 frames. It’s also huge when…
There’s one word to sum up the Arizona Diamondbacks’ 2009 season thus far: Exasperation. While the emotion has been brewing amongst players and fans since the second game of the year against the Colorado Rockies — when the Snakes began their infuriating tendency of squandering decent pitching with woefully-inconsistent offense…
The Diamondbacks sucking wind with the bottom-feeders? The Padres in the clouds? What in the name of collective mediocrity is going on in the National League West? Thankfully, there’s one constant that NL West watchers can depend on, post-Barry Bonds: The San Francisco Giants still bite. At the moment, our…
Arizona Cardinals’ star wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald Jr. was in his home state last week for a memorial fundraiser with family and friends, including Jordin Sparks (above). The event at the Metropolitan Club Ball Room in Golden Valley, Minnesota, was to raise money for breast cancer in the name of…
The Suns set in the West on Wednesday evening. And they dropped below the horizion with a purple and orange glow, beating the Golden State Warriors in the last game of the season for both teams, 117-113. Phoenix wound up two games out of the Western Conference playoffs, behind the Utah Jazz. It…
After a dramatic extra-inning win on Tuesday night, the Arizona Diamondbacks came out swinging on Wednesday afternoon in the series finale and homestand-closing game against the St. Louis Cardinals. Unfortunately, for every bit of goodwill the D-Backs generated Wednesday, they took a step back in a 12-7 loss to the Cards…
It’d been almost nine long months since Conor Jackson hit a home run for the Arizona Diamondbacks, with the left fielder’s last moon shot coming way back in July against the San Francisco Giants. Co-Jack’s homer dry spell ended in dramatic fashion Tuesday night when he drilled a pinch-hit, three-run…
A mere week into the new season, the Arizona Diamondbacks’ top pitcher is on the disabled list with a sore wing and the D-Backs couldn’t hit a slow-pitch grapefruit with a two-by-four. You think they’ve got problems? This year’s star-crossed campaign for Your Phoenix Suns mercifully comes to an end…
Way before the St. Louis Cardinals’ Brian Barden belted the game-winning blast in the eighth inning to gave the Arizona Diamondbacks their third consecutive loss, the home team arguably choked away the game way back in the third. In that inning, Cardinals’ starter Todd Wellemeyer retired the first hitter, then…
A disturbing trend is emerging in Arizona Diamondbacks land, one that fans have seen before in these parts. What we’re talking about is the team’s inability to produce enough runs per game to win. Dropping nine on the Los Angeles Dodgers during Friday’s 9-4 victory — a win that featured…
The National League West might have three of the top players in the game in L.A.’s Manny Ramirez, San Francisco’s Tim Lintecum, and Arizona’s Brandon Webb, but it remains one of the sorriest divisions in the bigs. The West’s two presumptive contenders, the Diamondbacks and Dodgers, flip-flopped division titles the…
