Baseball Historians

Randy Wolf was not the best left handed pitcher going into the game on Sunday, no one would question that. But on Sunday, he was the better pitcher. Wolf out pitched Randy Johnson in the game.
Wolf went 6.1 innings, allowing four runs on six hits, but struck out seven. Johnson could not find a […]

Greg Maddux was crushed over the span of 7 innings on Friday. He gave up 13 hits, and nine runs, all earned. Conor Jackson provided the thunderpower going 4-5 with a homer, two triples and a single, falling just a double short of the cycle. He drove in four, and scored three runs.
The Diamondbacks bats […]

Brandon Webb won his fourth consecutive decision to improve to 4-0, becoming the first MLB pitcher to four wins this season. In a game that featured little offense, the Diamondbacks had just a little bit more to win by a score of 4-1.
The story of the day was Webb’s masterful performance. He threw 8.0 innings, […]

After a mini-losing streak of just two games, the Diamondbacks got back to winning ways with a 8-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants. Chris Young led the way with a two run homer and a double, while Micah Owings shut down the Giants bats.
Young had two across the board, in runs, hits, and RBI’s. […]

Randy Johnson left the mound in a position to win his first start of the year. Four innings later, the Diamondbacks lost 5-4 to the lowly Giants.
Johnson went 5.0 innings allowing no earned runs, three unearned on only three hits. He also punched out seven Giants batters. Chad Qualls took the loss for the […]

The Diamondbacks eight game winning streak came to a screeching stop Sunday after the Rockies crushed them 13-5. Matt Holliday, Clint Barmes and Garrett Atkins each had three hit games with a homer apiece.
Holliday and Atkins each drove in three and Barmes drove home four, while each scored two runs. Willy Taraves and Yorvit […]

The way the Diamondbacks are swinging the bat lately, one would think they are playing all their games in Coors Field. Not lately, the Diamondbacks are at home against the Rockies. After a 10-3 trouncing of the Rockies on Saturday, the Diamondbacks have won eight straight ballgames.
Dan Haren was stellar in his Chase Field […]

Brandon Webb remained unbeaten in his first three starts of the season in an 8-2 victory over the Colorado Rockies. The team has now won seven consecutive games after starting 1-2, and is standing with a record of 8-2.
Webb gave up only four hits over 8 full innings, while striking out six and surrendering only […]

The Diamondbacks batters might as well have gone up the plate without their bats today. They came in useless all day, as the lineup managed just one hit off rookie Johnny Cueto. Cueto did not allow a hit until the 6th inning, when Justin Upton took him out of the park for his first homer […]

Edwin Encarnacion got his first hit of the 2008 season in the second game. It could not have been any bigger. Encarnacion took a 2-2 Brandon Lyon fastball deep over the outfield wall to drive home three runs and win the game for the Cincinnati Reds. Lyon faced three batters, and retired none.
Dan Haren […]

Brandon Webb started off the 2008 campaign with a strong six inning performance in a 4-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. Webb had six strikeouts, and only surrendered two runs on three hits to the Reds offense on the day.
The offense was provided on three solo homers. Chris Young got it started with a homer […]

The Diamondbacks won their first Spring Training game, and added another while they were at it. Arizona won both games against the Chicago White Sox with scores of 12-5 and 7-6.
Chris Burke led off the game with a homer, and the Diamondbacks never looked back. They hit three dingers in the ballgame, and never […]

Trot Nixon Signed
Last week, the Diamondbacks signed longtime Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indian outfielder Trot Nixon to a minor league contract. Nixon was signed as an insurance policy if Chad Tracy is not ready for Opening Day after surgery on his right knee in the offseason. The plan means that despite no previous experience […]

One is a 6′3″ 230 pound right-handed hitter hailing from Texas, the other is 5′11″, 195 pound Venezuelan lefty. Coming off a season where they split time, the pair of Chris Snyder and Miguel Montero are looking at same playing time arrangement this year.
Snyder is coming off a season in which he hit .252 with […]

The Spring Training battle to be the closer on Opening Day is over before it ever started. According to MLB.com, manager Bob Melvin told reporters in a Wednesday afternoon conference call, that Brandon Lyon will open Spring Training as the closer. He added that Tony Pena and Chad Qualls will be in the set-up role.
After […]

The third of three brothers to play Major League Baseball takes the field at shortstop. A small-town Kentucky boy at the hot corner. The son of an actor from the CBS show JAG holding down first base.
Stephen Drew, Mark Reynolds and Conor Jackson fill three-quarters of the Arizona Diamondbacks infield this year. Orlando Hudson, in […]

Dontrelle Willis put on the old English ‘D’ of the Detroit Tigers. Johan Santana is on his way to don the orange and blue New York Mets jersey. Among all the media mayhem over such big names moving to new teams, possibly the biggest pitcher on the move during the off-season did not garner the […]

A rumor has come out that the Diamondbacks are pursuing Japanese hurley Hiroki Kuroda in an attempt to short up their rotation.  Kuroda is looking for around $10 million a year and while that’s a hefty price, it could be worth it if he’s the real deal.  With Brandon Webb and Doug Davis already in […]

While the Diamondbacks success by itself wasn’t that surprising, the fact that they did it without Randy Johnson turned it into a surprise.  And because the Diamondbacks won a National League leading 90 wins with a very young team, Bob Melvin walked away with the National League Manager of the Year.  He was first place […]