Atlanta struck first on Thursday night when Brian McCann doubled to deep right field in the third inning, scoring Martin Prado, to put the Braves up 1-0. They would go up 2-0 the next inning when Michael Bourn hit a sacrifice fly to plate another run.

Arizona would tie it up in the top of the sixth inning off of a two-run double to deep right center field by Jason Kubel, scoring Willie Bloomquist and Justin Upton.

The score would remain the same until the top of the ninth inning when Chris Young hit a solo home run to left-center field off of Atlanta closer Craig Kimbrell, to put the snakes up 3-2. JJ Putz would come in and close the door in the bottom of the ninth to record his 14th save of the year.

Arizona rookie phenom made his major league debut, pitching four strong innings, allowing five hits and two earned runs. Patrick Corbin and David Hernandez came in to provide 4 innings of scoreless relief before Putz came in to close the game.

The D-backs will send Ian Kennedy to the mound tomorrow to start a three game series against the Milwaukee Brewers.

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However, I have changed the rankings a little bit which I will discuss below.

Part 1, which examines both starting and relief pitchers is here: MLB Network’s Top Ten Right Now: Dback’s Snubs (Pitchers)

This year’s MLB Network rankings: (Catchers):

1. Mike Napoli
2. Joe Mauer
3. Miguel Montero
4. Buster Posey
5. Alex Avila
6. Carlos Santana
7. Brian McCann
8. Yadier Molina
9. Matt Wieters
10. Carlos Ruiz

There are only two real changes from my list a week ago to now: the first was adding Mike Napoli to the mix. I avoided putting Napoli on my list last time because I figured he would be on the “DH” list for MLB Network and not the Catcher position considering he only caught 61 games for the Rangers last season. But they did include him so I needed to include him too. However, I will not put him FIRST as they have because he has never caught more than 100 games in a season. To be a valuable catcher, you have to actually, you know, play catcher a good amount. All nine guys above Napoli, with the possible exceptions of Buster Posey and Carlos Santana (which are yet to be seen) are workhorses for their particular franchises behind the plate.

The second change is that I moved Yadier Molina down the list simply because he will turn 30 this year and that is about the time catchers start to lose it. So here are my updated rankings of MLB’s catchers:

1. Brian McCann
2. Joe Mauer
3. Buster Posey
4. Miguel Montero
5. Alex Avila
6. Carlos Santana
7. Matt Wieters
8. Yadier Molina
9. Carlos Ruiz
10. Mike Napoli