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State of the Arizona Diamondbacks: First Quarter

Scott Allen — Tue, 17 May 2011 02:35:01 +0000


The Arizona Diamondbacks are playing in their 40th game of the season tonight.  It's time for a quick review of the state of the Dbacks.  At 17-22 going into tonight's game against the San Diego Padres and well on their way to loss #23, here is where the Dbacks stand.

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Final Home Game Today

Scott Allen — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:55:00 +0000

The final home game of the 2010 season for the Arizona Diamondbacks takes place today against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dbacks have a chance to finish their home portion of the schedule at 40-41, just one game under .500. Although that is still a disappointing record, it still shows the Dbacks didn’t go down without a fight and that’s all anyone can ask at this point. The Dbacks have already won four out of five on this home stand, including last night’s 5-2 victory over the Dodgers.

There hasn’t been much to cheer about at Chase Field this season. Not a lot of good memories to take away from what has been a hard season both on and off the field for the Dbacks. There have been some good and some not so good memories of this season’s home games.

The good memories were few and far between. The best one has to be the retirement ceremony for Luis Gonzalez. The August 7th game was a sellout, the only sellout besides the home opener. Of course there was bobble-head gate, but save for that, it was a good moment for the Dbacks on the field. Chris Young won the game with a walk-off homer in extra innings.

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Diamondbacks Notes

Scott Allen — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:41:49 +0000

Jimmy Hascup from FanHouse.com advised me he has some exclusive and interesting news in regards to Jerry Dipoto. The story is written by their MLB Senior Writer Tom Krasovic.

The Arizona Diamondbacks are on the verge of hitting 2 million people in attendance for the season. I dispute the number though. They announced over 37,000 the other night and there wasn’t even anywhere close to that. They are inflating the numbers, something they weren’t doing in the summer. it sounds like some kind of policy changed with the Dbacks in terms of counting the attendance.

Daniel Hudson makes his first career start tonight against the Los Angeles Dodgers.