Venom Strikes » Jay Bell http://venomstrikes.com An Arizona Diamondbacks Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Fri, 24 May 2013 21:00:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 D-Day, Diamondbacks and Dodgers http://venomstrikes.com/2012/06/06/d-day-diamondbacks-and-dodgers/ http://venomstrikes.com/2012/06/06/d-day-diamondbacks-and-dodgers/#comments Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:57:19 +0000 Thomas Lynch http://venomstrikes.com/?p=3897   Today marks the 68th anniversary of D-Day, one of the most famous days in our great country’s history. This was the day the Allies landed on the beach in Normandy, France to push German forces back across the European continent, one of the most important missions during World War II. Less than a year [...]

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Sept. 10, 2011; Phoenix AZ, USA; Arizona Diamondbacks former pitcher Curt Schilling before the game against the San Diego Padres at Chase Field. Image: Jennifer Hilderbrand-US PRESSWIRE

 

Today marks the 68th anniversary of D-Day, one of the most famous days in our great country’s history. This was the day the Allies landed on the beach in Normandy, France to push German forces back across the European continent, one of the most important missions during World War II. Less than a year later, America and her allies were victorious over Germany ending one of the most evil reigns in history. Since I love the date of June 6th, I decided to see how the Arizona Diamondbacks fared on game day 10 years ago today. I found…..nothing. They were off. So I decided to do the next best thing: look up their game from June 6th, 2001.

On that date, the D-Backs defeated the Dodgers 4-1 behind Curt Schilling’s  complete game six-hitter in which he struck out eight and did not walk a batter. Schilling improved to 10-1 and Luis Gonzalez continued his amazing season going 2 for 4. Damien Miller and Jay Bell  contributed solo home runs and Mark Grace added an RBI double. The only Dodger run came courtesy of a Shawn Green home run. Luke Prokopec started and was the losing pitcher with Eric Gagne pitching the final two innings. The win increased Arizona’s lead in the NL West to two games over LA boosting their overall record to 35-24. It also snapped a minuscule two game losing streak. They finished their series against the Dodgers with a 13-9 victory the following afternoon before playing nine games against three American League teams. Click here for a look at the box score and play by play.

I have always enjoyed reading over old box scores and checking out names that and saying, “Oh yeah, I remember him”. Hopefully some of the D-Back names (and Dodger names for that matter) causes you to have one of those moments.

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Pitchers and catchers report in a couple of weeks in Scottsdale.  As we all wait for that to happen, I thought it would be interesting to think about who you thought was the best second baseman in Arizona Diamondbacks history?  John Gambadoro and Dave Burns  from Sports 620 KTAR put up their own fantasy rosters yesterday, but I want to throw it out to you to decide position by position.  Shortstop is up next.

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Pitchers and catchers report in a couple of weeks in Scottsdale.  As we all wait for that to happen, I thought it would be interesting to think about who you thought was the best second baseman in Arizona Diamondbacks history?  John Gambadoro and Dave Burns from Sports 620 KTAR put up their own fantasy rosters today, but I want to throw it out to you to decide position by position, now tackling the second base position.

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