Baseball loves a good old-fashioned turnaround, whether it’s the Tampa Bay Rays going from worst to first last season, or the Detroit Tigers’ surprising come-from-behind win over the Baltimore Orioles on Monday. Last night, Yusmeiro Petit became the sport’s latest comeback kid as he came damn close to pulling off…
This was almost the ultimate disaster in a season chockfull of them. On the same day that Brandon Webb had season-killing surgery, the Arizona Diamondbacks were in New York’s Citi Field, putting the hurt on the host in an attempt to win three out of four from the struggling Metropolitans…
We like Herb Sendek (pictured) and how he’s taken a beaten-down ASU men’s basketball program up a notch in the past few years, thanks in large part to his now-departed superstar James Harden. guys always play hard and, at times last year, well enough to compete with all but the very…
Friday’s trading deadline came and went with neither Doug Davis nor Jon Garland being shipped by the Arizona Diamondbacks to teams in contention for a playoff spot. So the two veteran pitchers turned in solid performances this weekend as the D-Backs took the first two out of three in a…
The 2009 New York Mets are more or less an afterthought. Despite their humongous payroll — second only to the ever-profligate crosstown Yanks — and the presence of contemporary rock-star athletes such as Johan Santana, Carlos Beltran, David Wright, and Gary Sheffield, the underachievers have been overshadowed all year by…
Tom Candiotti, a former MLB pitcher who’s now a broadcaster for the Arizona Diamondbacks, is suing former D-Backs pitcher Todd Stottlemyre over a soured investment deal. The lawsuit, filed June 30 and posted online yesterday by courthousenews.com, says that Stottlemyre (brother of current pitching coach Mel Stottlemyer Jr.) worked for…
Turns out all the Arizona Diamondbacks needed Wednesday night to top the slugging Philadelphia Phillies was Justin Upton’s two-run home run in the bottom of the first inning. The D-Backs, who had dropped the first two games of their three-game series with the defending world champs, proceeded to shut ’em…
If there’s one thing that Diamondbacks fans have usually been able to bank on during this season of perpetual inconsistency, it’s the near-constant dominance of pitcher Dan Haren. Well, up until this past week, that is. For the second time in as many outings, Arizona’s All-Star pitcher managed only five…
Baseball is one of those sports where any team, no matter how good or bad, can beat another on any given day. But when the good exploits the bad, then, well, it’s not a pretty thing to watch. Just in case you missed it, the Philadelphia Phillies are in town…
Max Scherzer might as well start calling himself Jack Sparrow, since the Diamondbacks pitcher was cutting down Pirates left and right during yesterday’s 9-0 shutout over Pittsburgh at Chase Field. Instead of using ye olde cutlass, however, he was doing it with his 94-mile-per-hour four-seamers and sliders, dispatching Bucs batters…
In a way, it was a sad night for Arizona Diamondbacks fans, because the team’s 11-4 shellacking of the Pittsburgh Pirates at Chase Field demonstrated how good this team could be. If the offense showed up more than once out of every two or three games. If the bullpen showed up…
Think your Diamondbacks stink? What to make, then, of the Pittsburgh Pirates, who, before their 8-5 victory against the Brewers on July 20, had been Milwaukee’s bitch for more than a year? Before that W, the Pirates had choked away 17 straight to the Brewers (the Brewers!) over 14 months. It…
The Arizona Diamondbacks’ come-from-behind win Tuesday against the Colorado Rockies was great and all, but it don’t mean squat unless a team can build some momentum from it. Consider the momentum unbuilt Wednesday, because the D-Backs dropped a tough one, 4-3, to the surging Rockies and lost yet another series…
It’s a safe bet that the closest the execrable Arizona Diamondbacks squad will get to this year’s postseason will be tuning into Joe Buck and Tim McCarver’s play-by-play on FOX. But that’s not to say our lovable losers won’t have a say in who’ll be in the MLB playoffs come…
What’s the best news for the Arizona Diamondbacks following last night’s 10-6 loss against the Colorado Rockies in Denver? They live to play another day. Or maybe that’s a bad thing, considering the way this sorry season has gone. Not sure what to say about Monday night’s laugher, which occurred…
National Basketball Association. Come on, the Suns are in a rebuilding mode. From the looks of things so far, we predict they’ll be only slightly more competitive next season than the Arizona Diamondbacks have been this summer. Barring a major trade, look for the Suns to be a .500…
As if it weren’t painfully obvious as they muddle through the 2009 season, the non-contending Arizona Diamondbacks are sellers, not buyers, on the trade market this July. So, after Sunday’s loss to the St. Louis Cardinals, the D-Backs shipped leadoff hitter and second baseman Felipe Lopez to the Cards’ division…
The Arizona Diamondbacks started the second half of the season just as they played most of the first half: on the losing side of a series. And true to form, it was all-pitch/no-hit this weekend in St. Louis. Each of the Diamondbacks’ three starters in the series — Jon Garland,…
If you had told Wayne Gretzky when he was 17 years old and already playing professional hockey, that he would some day be going to court over a hockey team in Phoenix, he probably would have looked puzzled and asked: “Where?” But, here we are, and here he is. Phoenix has a…
There’s no question about it: the Phoenix Mercury’s Diana Taurasi’s the face of the Women’s National Basketball Association. A college standout at UConn and an Olympic champion, she’s the biggest women’s basketball player of all time. Not in physical stature (she a 6-foot guard), but in talent and fan appreciation. Take a look…
Pete Rose is a numskull, but if he’s your definition of evil, you need to invest in a new dictionary. Yeah, Rose bet on games, including his own team, the Cincinnati Reds, while he was still playing/managing. And, yeah, that’s bad, but compared to the slimy, steroid-rippled creatures who’ve been…
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,…
