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Randy Johnson dropped his sixth straight start in an 8-6 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers. He was roughed up for seven runs in just 3.2 innings, his shortest outing of the year.
JJ Hardy and Joe Dillon homered off Johnson early, sending him spiraling downhill. Hardy homered in the first and the second innings off […]

The Diamondbacks jacked four homers against the Mets en route to a 9-5 win. Three of the homers came in the last two innings, giving the needed boost to lift the Diamondbacks to the win.
Orlando Hudson started the homer parade in the fifth inning, hitting a two out, two run shot. Chris Snyder went deep […]

Zach Duke out dueled Randy Johnson and just for the day, was the better left handed pitcher. Duke’s Pirates won 5-3 over Johnson’s Diamondbacks.
Duke fought through six innings allowing just two runs. He gave up five hits and struck out five. Matt Capps picked up his 15th save working the ninth inning.
Johnson struggled to […]

The Pirates got to Doug Davis early, and hard. They put a five spot on the board in the fourth inning, knocking Davis from the game with his worst outing of the year.
Davis gave up all five runs on seven hits and four walks. The Diamondbacks were not able to put together enough of a […]

Chris Snyder has not had a great year offensively, but lately he has shown signs of heating up. A very nice sign was his sixth homer of the year. The homer came in the top of the ninth and put the Diamondbacks ahead 4-3 over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Reliever Juan Cruz was the recipient of […]

Brandon Webb got back to his winning ways that had eluded him for a short time a couple of weeks ago. He shut down the Pittsburgh Pirates in the teams first meeting of the year, allowing just one run on three hits over seven innings. The Diamondbacks won the game by a score of 3-1.
The […]

The Brewers are on a bit of a roll lately. They have won six straight. The Diamondbacks…not so much. They have lost three straight. The finale of the series in Milwaukee was not pretty, the Diamondbacks took a hard 10-1 loss.
The Diamondbacks struggled all game long to get the bats going. The Brewers had no […]

Randy Johnson moved into sole possession of second place on the all time strikeout list with his first K of the game. He racked up eight in the game, but still Johnson took the loss 7-1.
Mike Cameron was the batter that swung and missed to give Johnson the K that moved him past Roger Clemens […]

Doug Davis put together a solid outing in his third start since returning from surgery. He went six strong innings allowing just one earned run to the Milwaukee Brewers. He walked just two and allowed only six hits.
The Diamondbacks led 3-1 going into the bottom of the seventh, but the Brewers put two runs on […]

Dan Haren and the Diamondbacks bullpen created an impossible combination for the Nationals to solve. Haren left the Nationals scoreline empty over seven innings. He struck out five and gave up only four hits in the game.
The game started off the right way for the Diamondbacks, the first two batters reached base and Orlando […]

Brandon Webb found himself in a very unfamiliar place. He had lost his previous two starts after reeling off nine straight wins to start the 2008 season. His team was also in unfamiliar territory. The team that was considered the best in the bigs for a period to start the year had lost five straight. […]

The Arizona Diamondbacks were sitting high and mighty not too long ago with the best record in the majors. Now they sit just 2.5 games ahead of the second place Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West. The latest loss, a 7-4 victory for the Washington Nationals, was another lackluster performance by the Diamondbacks offense.
The […]

The San Francisco Giants have had little to truly hang their hat on this season, but a sweep of the division leading Diamondbacks is certainly something to get them going in the right direction. After taking the first two games of the series, the Giants struck late against the D’backs bullpen and took the game […]

The Diamondbacks still lead the NL West, but the margin is growing smaller and smaller. After an 11-3 loss to the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday, the Diamondbacks dropped to 3-7 in their last 10 and have lost three straight.
Doug Davis took it right in the chin for the Diamondbacks, not quite the way […]

The Diamondbacks fell behind early Tuesday against the Giants and could not get back into the game despite scoring late. The Giants jumped out to a 5-0 lead against starter Dan Haren before the Diamondbacks got on the board in the bottom of the fifth. After two more runs in the bottom of the eighth, […]

Brandon Webb was seemingly unbeatable for a nine game stretch to start the season. Then the Marlins got to him and beat him. Now the Braves got to Webb and put him on a two game losing streak.
Mark Teixeira put little doubt in the minds of anyone as to the outcome of the game. […]

Micah Owings is quietly putting together a solid season for the Diamondbacks. With teammate Brandon Webb attracting media focus and national attention, Owings is working under the radar and thriving. He allowed the Atlanta Braves just six hits over six innings and only two runs, more than enough to win 9-3.
Chris Young got the game […]

Chipper Jones. What is there to say about what this guy is doing. His average is at .417 after two more hits today. One of those hits headed up a ninth inning rally to win 3-1 over the Diamondbacks Saturday afternoon.
Chipper led off the inning with a single off Doug Slaten, who was removed […]

Doug Davis made the triumphant return everyone hoped he would. Davis, diagnosed with typhoid cancer at the end of spring training, underwent successful surgery in early April. He made two rehab starts in the minors before returning to Arizona’s rotation. His return was just the boost the Diamondbacks bats needed.
They knocked a season high five […]

Brandon Webb had to lose eventually. Sadly, that night came last night. The Marlins did just enough to beat Webb by a score of 3-1.
After a streak of nine straight starts won, it took some timely hits by the Marlins and a lack of offense by the Diamondbacks to find the formula that beat […]

Micah Owings kept the Diamondbacks in the game with his strong performance, but the offense was unable to come through. The Diamondbacks went 0-8 with runners in scoring position and lost by a count of 3-2. Owings had a career high 10 strikeouts in the game.
The Marlins got the one run that made the […]

Randy Johnson notched up win number 288 by allowing the Tigers next to nothing on offense in a 4-0 win. The Big Unit was huge, giving up just six hits scattered over seven shut out innings. He tallied up six strikeouts and just one walk.
Mark Reynolds had three hits for the Diamondbacks and Chris […]

Armando Galarraga allowed just one hit in six innings to the Diamondbacks offense. After a shaky start, he settled down but still finished with five walks. The Tigers used the stellar outing to scrape out with a 3-2 win in the second game of the interleague series.
Two runs were scored in the fifth by the […]

Jeremy Bonderman finally came through for the Tigers. Too bad they couldn’t come through for him. The pitcher gave up just three runs in six innings, much improved from his previous outings. His big mistake came to Eric Byrnes, who has been slumping. He left a fastball up, and Byrnes made him pay jacking it […]

I am beginning to run out of ideas and words to describe Brandon Webb. Perfect. Unbeaten. Unconscious. Incredible. You name it, he is it right now. After winning an improbable 12 games in the second half of last year, he has picked up where he left off to win his first nine starts of the […]

Micah Owings won his fifth game of the year, beating the Rockies 4-3. Owings threw six shutout innings with only five hits allowed and striking out five. His record stands at 5-1.
The Diamondbacks middle infielders provided the spark on offense, Stephen Drew and Orlando Hudson each had two hits in the game. They […]

The Diamondbacks bats woke up back at home in the desert after going cold in Chicago. The D’backs pounded out 15 hits, 13 off Rockies starter Jeff Francis, on their way to an 8-4 win. Each of the Diamondbacks 1-5 hitters had at least two hits in the game, with Chris Young leading the way […]

The Diamondbacks took out the Cubs in last years playoffs in a sweep. The Cubs had a little bit of revenge on the D’backs this weekend, by sweeping the series from them. They took the final game by a score of 6-4.
The Diamondbacks bats failed to sow up for the third straight game. It […]

Max Scherzer bounced back in his second career start. He allowed just one unearned run in six innings, surrendering just five hits. He also struck out five in the game. He left leading 2-1. The bullpen promptly allowed the Cubs to score six in the bottom of the seventh, and the Cubs won 7-2.
Alfonso Soriano […]

Ted Lilly did it all Friday night. He took the win on the mound, and had the two run single that proved to be the difference in a 3-1 game. Lilly took a 1-0 fastball from Dan Haren and drove it into center field, scoring two runs and putting the Cubs ahead 2-1 at the […]