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…
The amazing, no-name Diamondbacks beat San Diego 4-1 last night, cementing Ian Kennedy’s status as the winningest pitcher in the National League and increasing their lead over the idle San Francisco Giants to 7 1/2 games. The right-hander had 11 strikeouts, one shy of his career best, giving up seven hits. If Kennedy ain’t…
So, it’s come to this: If the Arizona Diamondbacks end up losing the NL West crown in the final three weeks of the 2011 season it will go down as one of the biggest folds of all-time. Who woulda thunk it? Not us, that’s for sure. We…
The Arizona Diamondbacks were cruising to yet another win last night against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field in Denver when the unthinkable happened: Their bullpen fell apart late in the game. Reliever David Hernandez gave up five runs in the eighth inning against the Rox, blowing Arizona’s lead and…
[jump] Gerardo Parra proceeded to nail a single and pinch-hitter Geoff Blum got the base on balls treatment, which set the stage for a two-run triple by Willie Bloomquist’s and an RBI single by Aaron Hill. The scoreboard was then 4-1 in favor of the Diamondbacks. Arizona’s dugout was nothing…
So….did you hear the one about the Arizona Diamondbacks being the hottest team in baseball?It’s not a joke, it’s a fact: the Arizona Diamondbacks, with nine straight wins, are the hottest team in baseball.The D-Backs now lead the National League West by six games, with about a month left to…
The Arizona Diamondbacks got their bats moving last night during the team’s 9-4 win over the Colorado Rockies at Chase Field last night.The D-Backs had 14 hits last night, including a center-field jack from right-fielder Justin Upton that may not have landed yet.But Upton’s homer was just the icing on…
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…
The Arizona Diamondbacks’ newest hero stepped into the spotlight during yesterday’s victory over the San Diego Padres at Chase Field. Rookie outfielder Collin Cowgill came up big at the ballpark on Sunday, smacking in his first-ever major league homer and helping lift the Snakes to a 6-1 win that completed a three-game…
Wade Miley wasn’t perfect on the mound last night, but he certainly got the job done. The 24-year-old rookie southpaw may have struggled a bit in his second appearance in the bigs, but ultimately pitched six scoreless innings to nab his first major league win and help the Arizona Diamondbacks…
Fans of the Arizona Diamondbacks can breathe a little easier today as the team managed to extend their lead over the San Francisco Giants in the National League West standings after beating the Washington Nationals 4-2 last night in D.C. The Snakes are now two games in front of the…
[jump] Burroughs’ homer was his first since 2005 and served as a redemption of sorts for the third baseman, who’s been on a major comeback over the past year. Once considered a baseball wunderkind (after he helped win back-to-back Little League World Series in the early ’90s), Burroughs hit the…
Let’s put it this way: When two of your starters are (yikes!) each batting .152 (Cody Ransom and Collin Cowgill), your centerfielder (Chris Young) has dipped to .232 after a promising start to his season, and no one remotely could be called hot with the stick, you’re probably not going…
What a difference a week makes. A mere seven days ago, the the Arizona Diamondbacks were riding a seven-game win streak and experiencing the thrilling high that came with upending one of the best teams in baseball. As of this morning, however, the Snakes are in the midst of a…
There’s good news about the Diamondbacks vs. Major League Baseball’s best team, the Phillies — Arizona’s 3-3 this season against Philadelphia. The other good news is that while the Diamondbacks were losing 4-1 to the Phillies before and after a more-than-two-hour rain delay in the City of Brotherly Love last…
The Arizona Diamondbacks had their seven-game win streak obliterated and their asses handed to them in Wednesday night’s 9-2 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. The Snakes may have shocked the sports world on Tuesday by getting an upset win over Philly and best-pitcher-in-baseball Roy Halladay, but 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…
The Arizona Diamondbacks completed a three-game sweep of the New York Mets yesterday with a 5-3 win to help solidify the team’s lead in the National League West.The D-Backs now lead the defending World Series champion San Francisco Giants by two games in the NL West with just over a…
In the span of a heartbeat, the championship dreams of the Arizona Rattlers crumbled into dust. Their near-perfect season is over and their visions of glory obliterated. Mere moments away from winning ArenaBowl XXIV at US Airways Center earlier tonight (and thus, capturing their third title in 19 years) the…
We hung in there last night as the Arizona Diamondbacks fell behind 5-1 to the lowly Houston Astros at Chase Field. Memories of Tuesday night’s classic comeback win over the `Stros (down 7-1 in that one) were fresh in our minds, as was the spunk that the first-place locals (first…
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…
We hadn’t attended an Arizona Diamondbacks game in weeks, and when the lowly Houston Astros ran up a 7-1 lead at Chase Field last night, we headed home in disgust. After all, the D-Backs had lost 9-1 to the ‘Stros the night before, and it looked like more of the…
