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Strong Effort From Davis Saves Another Anemic Offensive Effort

Well, at least we won. Finally a strong starting effort does not go wasted, although it took until the ninth inning to put any doubt into this game.  The Arizona Diamondbacks, behind eight solid innings from Doug Davis, defeated the San [...]

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Dbacks Offense Needs Wake Up Call

For the third straight outing for Dan Haren last night, he was above average yet failed to receive any assistance from the offense.  The Dbacks offense seems to be on an indefinite vacation.  It might be just me, and I’m [...]

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Dbacks Drop Game, Series, to Cards

The Arizona Diamondbacks have found a little offense over the past couple of days.  Too bad for them, the pitching continues to remain terrible with a few exceptions.  After last night’s heroics by Eric Byrnes in the 10th inning to [...]

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Webb to the DL

You know, they should have just done this to begin with.  When Brandon Webb complained of soreness on Tuesday, they should have placed him on the DL, which is exactly what they did today, retroactive to Tuesday.  Instead, we were [...]

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Another Day, Another Loss

When the Arizona offense finally decides to wake up, they might want to let Dan Haren know before he takes the mound, so as he know where he stands.  As it is, Haren has now taken the mound twice and [...]

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Bullpen Proves Unreliable Once Again, Dodgers Annihilate Dbacks 11-2

Think I’m sounding like a broken record?  Well, get used to it.  Dbacks starter Yusmeiro Petit (0-1) looked good for the first three innings Saturday night, but after giving up three runs in the fourth inning and pitching a scoreless [...]

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Chase Field, Dbacks, to Host 2011 All-Star Game

Phoenix will finally host the MLB All-Star game.  The announcement was made official this afternoon at a press conference at Chase Field. July 12, 2011 will be the date of the game.  Phoenix has been lobbying for years to get the [...]

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MRI on Webb is Clean

Manager Bob Melvin indicated in his post game press conference tonight that pitcher Brandon Webb,  scratched from Saturday’s start, had a clean MRI today and looks good to start throwing again. Everyone can now breathe a sigh of relief.  Whew… Go Dbacks! Scott [...]

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Diamondbacks Rebound to Defeat the Dodgers 9-4

The Arizona Diamondbacks offense was back in action Friday night after taking a couple of days off and defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 9-4.  Dodgers starter James McDonald cruised through the first two innings before he became the wild thing [...]

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R.I.P. Nick Adenhart

Baseball lost a good young player and person early today in Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Nick Adenhart.  He was 22.  Please keep him and his family and friends in your [...]

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