Left fielder David Peralta’s dribbler down the third base line broke the streak and drove in the second run of a six-run inning that decided the Diamondbacks’ 13-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday at Chase Field.
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The Diamondbacks would hate to lose their catcher for any time, the way he is hitting. Buchanan is 0-3 with a 7.20 ERA in four road outings.Hellickson struggled while losing his last two starts, serving up four homers and giving up 10 earned runs in eight innings. Peralta doubled in Goldschmidt, but Peralta was retired attempting to take third. “I’m just here to execute”. He gave up eight hits, walked one, and struck out three. The manager is the one who makes the decisions.
[WSJ] The New York Baseball Death Star Is Back – Major League Baseball prides itself on the idea that every team has a chance. Pollock finished a double short of the cycle, had his 26th stolen base and scored three runs.
Arizona is a heavy -181 favorite in this game and the Over/Under (O/U) is nine runs. “They were seeing the ball well off of me”, Harang said. De La Rosa served up a monster home run to Maikel Franco in the sixth inning, but he was otherwise solid.
“There were some really good pitches that I threw that were getting hit hard”. He has 22 doubles, tying him for the most among NL rookies with teammate Odubel Herrera. Philadelphia acquired INF Tyler Pastornicky from Texas on Monday and said he will be assigned to Triple-A Lehigh Valley….
Goldschmidt’s first of two RBIs gave him 382 in his career. That moved him into fifth place all-time in Diamondbacks history, ahead of current Nationals manager Matt Williams. “Hope and faith” is what Bud Selig called it, and in the last decade of his tenure as commissioner he set out to create it in as many markets as possible, for as long into the season as possible, year in and year out…
RHP Randall Delgado (ankle) is scheduled to pitch in an Arizona League game Wednesday. Archie Bradley (right shoulder tendinitis), who turned 23 on Monday, will throw a simulated game this week before going on a rehab assignment. He has never faced the Diamondbacks and will be making his 10th start of the season.
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Buchanan (2-6) was lit up to the tune of seven runs over four frames in his last start, falling to the Dodgers 10-8 on August. 6.
