The Diamondbacks 9-0 in Corbin’s last nine starts against the Rockies and are 5-0 in his last five home starts versus Colorado.
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Opening Day in Arizona was supposed to be the official unveiling of a new era of winning for the Diamondbacks, led by their new ace and prized free-agent acquisition, Zack Greinke.
Colorado Rockies shortstop Trevor Story (27) high fives teammate Carlos Gonzalez (5) after hitting his second career home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Monday, April 4, 2016, in…
“It’s just kind of surreal right now, ” Story said. “It’s hard to explain”. “You did a nice job of it. I said it before the game, you guys really hyped it up”.
Tuesday’s home run came against Arizona starter Shelby Miller and made Rockies history as Story and former first baseman Todd Helton (1997) are the only players in club history to homer in their first two big-league games.
Starting pitcher Tyler Chatwood cruised through the first two innings in his return to the mound after missing almost two full years with Tommy John.
DJ LeMahieu hit a one-out solo homer in the third inning and newcomer Ryan Raburn, who got the start in left field, added a one-out solo shot in the seventh inning to boost the Rockies’ lead to 4-2.
“Here’s a young kid who has dreamt of this his whole life”.
In his opening series against the Diamondbacks, Story blasted four dingers and launched 1,000 puns.
Diamondbacks: LHP Patrick Corbin gets his first start of the season.
“They kept battling. They kept grinding”, Arizona manager Chip Hale said. “It just seemed like every mistake we made in this series was a home run”.
Jeff Samardzija, making his Giants debut, allowed three runs and eight hits in 51/3 innings. “He’s on the fast track”, Weiss said. He went on the disabled list the next day.
Greinke then went from late August 2005 until May 2010 without giving up two homers to the same batter in a game. Justin Miller (1-0) pitched 1 1-3 scoreless innings of relief to get the victory.PITTSBURGH – Juan Nicasio was dazzling in his Pittsburgh debut, allowing one run and two hits in six innings to complete a season-opening, three-game series sweep. 348 career OBP is pretty good, but I’m scared that Major League pitchers will start to exploit Story once there is a larger sample size of at bats. Via the Elias Sports Bureau, Story is the first player since 1900 whose first four major league hits were all homers.
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Story admitted before his debut he would take the time to be grateful, but only after he worked through the nervous tension of dealing with all the firsts in his career: First butterflies in the gut as “The Star-Spangled Banner” played before first pitch. The Rockies have not determined where he will begin his rehab assignment or how many starts he will need….
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The difference in the game early on was a three-run homer by Josh Donaldson – his second home run in three games – off Rays starter Matt Moore in the third.
