Stephen Drew hit an inside the park home run today... i guess this calls for a 2010 Diamondbacks thread.

i have nothing much to contribute, aside from my awe at Drew's accomplishment.

it's weird cuz it looked to me like it hit the yellow line on the railing up there

i need to find a clip of this.

it's hard to tell where exactly it hit - beyond just the side of the outcropping.
what was with that weak ass throw (Blanks was it?) at the very end?!

I got this dude on my fantasy team too! fuckin', go me

j0hn you should've played ilx fantasy

YES HERE HE BELONGS TO THERMO AND NO OTHERS

The dry, underachieving ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS thread

Haren getting shelled by the Pirates.

ya, wtf happened there?!

you guys need to look at the box score for today's game (so far).

damn i picked up chris snyder in our fantasyleague right before this game too bad i gotta wait til tomorrow for him to count

via kurkijan on bb tonight: dbacks scored 13 runs in one inning today, stros haven't scored 13 runs all year

why the fuck did they let fucking Heilman pitch? fucking arsonist.

i was watching baseball tonight with my 13 year old cousin and after the kemp homer he goes "heilman sucks"

Speaking of arson, how about that Dodgers bullpen. Every dude in it except 2 has an era over 7.

trancoso & broxton are def the only ones worth shit -- weaver is awful -- what happened to kuo or w/e?

Kuo and Bellisario are supposed to rejoin the team next week. Thank fucking god.

Goddamn this game. Neither team wants to win.

Both teams used 8 pitchers last night. Lets see who can top that tonight.

http://i550.photobucket.com/albums/ii426/kensai808/Memories%20Of%20Kevin%20Malone/StephenDrewThrowOfFail.gif

Is there one of Furcal's earlier throwing error? It was amazing.

<3 that gif

the second coming of steve sax?

the crowd going ballistic at the end totally makes that gif.

So when does Kris Benson make his first start?

i'm surprised that wasn't mark reynolds

ew upton just hit a homer in houston to straight away center

what happens if it hits the flag pole...?

Ball hits flagpole and leaves field - HOME RUN.
Ball remains on field - IN PLAY. Ball hits flag pole, bounces on ground and then over fence - TWO BASES.

that is so f'n bizarre. sorry for the derail.

_▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ Haha

Raising Arizona
Like the phoenix, Kelly Johnson looks like he has risen from the ashes to revive his career. Doug Glanville »

ffs x 2

Haren struck out the first 9 batters tonight

beg pardon -- his first 9 outs were Ks, couple hits in there.

...and he gives up 4 runs and loses. no matter since the dbacks didnt score until he was out of the game and then the bullpen proceeded to give up 9 runs after that.

d backs TV guys just spent 3 mins talking about 'the real world'

Whenever they are not doing well, the voice of their play-by-play person (Don Sutton's son?) reaches this sharp, unpleasant monotone.

they ran a poll today asking fans which tv show set in san francisco is their favorite -- full house won

Los Angeles - Bottom of 9th SCORE
Esmerling Vasquez pitching for Arizona ARI LAD
J Loney walked. 4 4
C Blake singled to center, J Loney to second. 4 4
J Loney caught stealing third, pitcher to shortstop to third, C Blake to second on runner's fielder's choice. 4 4
R Martin grounded out to second, C Blake to third. 4 4
C Blake scored on E Vasquez' balk. 4 5

that whole game was absurd -- dodgers only tied it cuz kelly johnson made two errors on one play that allowed two runs to score

and I was there..

poor dbacks. their pen is so shitty. Vasquez even has decent stats yet still found a way to lose.

Guess I could have looked at the Dodger thread.

SKORNACKI
According to various on-line reports, Dontrelle Willis has been traded by the #Tigers to the #Diamondbacks.

Uh...

Dontrelle Willis is pitching like a D-bag.

Damn, I was thinking he would go to SF.

^^^Dontrelle Willis is pitching like a D-bag wtf.^^^

nickpiecoro
Hinch says Dontrelle will start this weekend, more than likely Saturday vs. Rockies.

Your team is fucked when the Kris Benson experiment fails and you bring in the D-Train to save the day.

This team's bullpen ERA is 7.70 -- almost a run and a half higher than Milwaukee's.

Your team is fucked when the Kris Benson experiment fails and you bring in the D-Train to save the day.

― mayor jingleberries, Wednesday, June 2, 2010 10:31 AM (47 minutes ago)

well there's that and then there is Webb pitching one game in the past 2 seasons and Haren shitting the bed this season... depends on what angle you're looking at.

edwin jackson pwning the dodgers but game is 0-0 in the bottom of the 9th.

still 0-0 going into the top of the 14th

dbacks lose in a walkoff stylee for the third game in a row

Several Houdini acts from Dontrelle thus far.

Here we go...

Welcome D-Train to Loogyville.

Supposedly the dbacks bullpen is the worst pen in the last 15 years or so by a full run. Would like to see how they rate all-time.

Out w/ Hinch, in w/ Gibson.

Out w/ Byrnes, too!

If they were an AL team Dan Haren would be their DH. What an atrocity.

Jerry DiPoto is the second ex-Met pitcher to become a GM, I think (Ed Lynch).

Just saw this on BTF:

Danny Haren is hitting .435/.447/.630. He's 20-for-46 with six doubles and a homer.

all of his hits are on fastballs, and yet...

byrnes seemed like a decent GM but anyone who puts together a bullpen like that probably shouldn't be in charge of a team

wonder if hinch would've helped perpetuate a six run inning by not realizing that an opposing team's player had drawn a walk after a ball was called on a 2-2 count

having trouble parsing that tbh

ha sorry

so xavier paul was up and on a 2-2 count, rodrigo lopez threw a ball and paul trotted off to first and no one noticed -- then bob gibson realized like 2 pitches into the next at bat -- rookie mistake

and the dodgers scored 6 runs in that inning

crazy... ump didn't say anything?

apparently not

i'm thinking that maybe the scoreboard displayed 3-2, but tv def said 2-2

E: R Ryal 2 (3, ground ball, throw); T Abreu 3 (9, ground ball 2, throw); M Reynolds (9, throw)

tbh several of the bullpen guys who imploded were fine previously, like theres no way you can blame him for chad qualls sucking as closer when hes been good for like 5 years

him = byrnes i mean

I SEE YOU, BRANDON ALLEN.

well, Kevin Towers eh

i dunno how much credit to give him for this year's padres team

Most of it?

what about depodesta and his computer???

i dunno how much credit to give him for this year's padres team

― ciderpress, Thursday, September 23, 2010 11:25 AM (1 hour ago)

how about the yankees?

what about depodesta and his computer???

I stand corrected.

first team to strike out 1400 times! astounding.

and yet their offense is still above average in a down year

too bad they're an entire pitching staff away from contention

Hudson and Kennedy are doing OK.

Chad Billinglsey struck out 13 dbacks yesterday, lost. Thanking u Joe Torre and your use of George Sherrill and Johnathan Broxton to protect a lead.

is webb RIP?

reynolds is batting .199 on the year

webb is trying to convince management to let him throw a couple innings so he can field contract offers next year. he tossed simulated innings this weekend.

and reynolds is the first player in mlb history to K more than his batting average

ha!

Webb takin' 'er easy:

nickpiecoro
Webb was 78-82 with his fb and 70-72 on his change, with same good sink on both pitches. So says scout who was there. Curve was 65-70.

Zack (CT)

Reports had Brandon Webb at 82 mph yesterday- he's finished yes?

Klaw
(2:22 PM)

Yes.

Illustrative note on the rise in Ks in the divisional play era -- the 1968 Mets used to have the single-season offensive strikeout record that Arizona just set. The '68 Mets are now tied for 47th on that list.