Baseball Historians

In a lot of ways, the Diamondbacks farm system has been so good, that it’s not only been used for trades, but players have exceeded expectations and have made the quick jump to the big leagues.  Still, even after the Dan Haren trade, the Diamond…

The Padres pounced on Dan Haren early and often, striking for four in the first inning and staking out a big lead for Jake Peavy. With that lead, it should be enough. Adam Dunn had other ideas, jacking a three run bomb in the bottom of the first to pul…

Adam Dunn and Doug Davis teamed up to beat the San Diego Padres in the opener of a three game series by a score of 7-6. The Padres made a late run with three runs in the top of the ninth inning but the Diamondbacks were able to hold off the Padres atte…

A day after the Diamondbacks blasted two grand slams, they managed just two hits against the Astros pitchers. Starter Roy Oswalt allowed just one hit over eight innings and walked only two. Both hits came off the bat of Stephen Drew. Ty Wiggington had …

The Diamondbacks found their way to a huge 11-5 win over the Astros by way of two homers off the bat of Miguel Montero, including one grand slam, and another grand slam added by Chris Young. Montero went 3-5 in the game and drove in a season high five …

Randy Johnson notched up his fourth straight victory and tallied up win number 292, pushing him that much closer to being the next member of the 300 win club. The Diamondbacks used Johnson’s strong outing to win over the Giants by a score of 7-2….

Brandon Webb and Tin Lincecum had combined for 24 wins before they found themselves matched up on Saturday. The two NL All-Stars dueled over seven innings and Lincecum leaving with a 3-2 lead. The Diamondbacks jumped on Tyler Walker in relief of Lincec…

Dan Haren was dominant again the Giants Friday, going eight strong innings of two run baseball. He allowed nine hits and struck out nine as well. The offense was more than up to the challenge, throwing five runs on the board in the second which was mor…

Conor Jackson has been hot of late, since the All Star Break and is making his case for being snubbed after a solid first half. He was huge in a 9-2 win over the Cubs last night, going 3-5 with two runs scored and three RBI’s. One of his three hits was hit tenth homer [...]

In a game that featured just four hits, two on either side, pitching was at a premium. Randy Johnson was just a notch above Cubs starter Rich Harden. Harden, in just his second start with the Cubs, took a no hitter into the sixth when Alex Romero broke it up with his first career homer. [...]

The Diamondbacks were poised to take the second game of the series by a score of 5-1, but they were snakebitten by the Dodgers five run ninth inning that left the Diamondbacks at a loss for explanations. After almost blowing a late game lead the previous night, Brandon Lyon recorded his fifth blown save of [...]

Going into the last inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers winning by a score of 3-0, all looked good with closer Brandon Lyon coming in to finish off the victory and seal the deal. Lyon however did not make things easy, giving up two runs to scrape out a 3-2 win over the visiting Dodgers.
Lyon [...]

The Diamondbacks ended their up and down first half with a loss to the Phillies in the finale of a three game set. The Phillies took two of three games to take the series as well and go into the break leading the NL East. The Phillies won by a score of 6-3.
Chad Tracy homered [...]

Randy Johnson has never been known for his bat, honestly, with an almost seven foot frame, his strike zone is so big everything is there. Along with winning his 290th career game over the Phillies, Johnson had a huge two run double as a part of the Diamondbacks eight run fourth inning. They won by [...]

The Phillies took the first game of a three game set with the Diamondbacks by a score of 6-5 in a hard fought game that went 12 innings. The Phillies won a run scoring single by Jayson Werth that drove in So Taguchi who led off the 12th with a hit.
The Diamondbacks bullpen failed [...]

The first two games of the Padres-Diamondbacks series had been a disaster for all concerned on the Diamondbacks side. The pitchers had been great, but the runs were not coming and the Padres won both of the games.
The third game looked headed in the same direction, when Randy Johnson gave up a homer to Scott [...]

The Diamondbacks might be getting a little taste of the frustrations of the Padres season with their lack of run scoring lately. The story of the Padres season thus far has been the lack of ability to score runs. That came to be again for the Diamondbacks for the second straight night. Doug Davis was [...]

The Diamondbacks just cannot find the winning formula on a consistent basis. The pitching and hitting has not yet come at the same time and for a team that was the best in the bigs for the early part of the year, the season has started to become a lot more shaky. Dan Haren threw [...]

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.
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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.
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