D-backs’ aggressiveness used against them in loss
Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman Pedro Alvarez (24) reacts at home plate after hitting a solo home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the fifth inning at PNC Park.
Houston’s Marwin Gonzalez had three hits and his 10th-inning leadoff homer to lift the Astros to a 3-2 victory over Tampa Bay.
Randall Delgado registered some key outs for the Arizona Diamondbacks last night, helping the team to a 4-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Ray is coming off his shortest start of the season, giving up three runs and walking four in 4 1-3 innings of a 3-2 defeat at Atlanta on Friday. The ball deflected off Rodriguez and into the right-field corner, allowing two runners to score for Melancon’s first blown save since April 21. Bastardo immediately surrendered a well-executed bunt single by Ender Inciarte and an exasperating four-pitch walk to the light-hitting Nick Ahmed, tightening stomachs in the stands for the first time all evening.
“It’s tough enough to pitch in a place like San Diego, where the weather is flawless”. “But that’s him, that’s why he’s so good and he’s one of the best in the league”.
Hellickson has permitted 11 keeps running over his last two recreations, which compasses eight innings. He is hitting. 469 (30-for-64) with 21 RBIs in his last 19 games and has a. 340 batting average in 191 at-bats as the cleanup hitter, compared with.
Cole gave up four runs and nine hits in 6 2/3 innings with one walk and five strikeouts. “If you don’t come out locating the ball early, they’re going to punish you”. The four runs would be all Arizona needed to hang on for the win. He was 1 for 2 for the game. They have managed to pull off a flawless record over their last ten games while playing as the underdog, and have a 6-4 SU record over the same span. The Diamondbacks are an excellent base stealing team with 102 stolen bases, ranking second in the Major League Baseball.
But Hudson struck out Alvarez to end the inning and the threat and then Arizona closer Brad Ziegler pitched a scoreless 9th to preserve the win and earn his 20th save.
His throwing error accounted for a pair of unearned runs in the fifth. He allowed seven hits, but limited the damage to just three runs. The Diamondbacks won two of three from Cincinnati in Arizona earlier this month.
Arizona came out of the gates strong in game one. He retired 14 of the final 16 batters he faced before being taken out after just 83 pitches. Before his promotion on August 8th, Romak was having a huge campaign for Reno. Pirates 1B/OF Corey Hart, who has been on the disabled list since June 22 with a left shoulder impingement and right knee discomfort, is scheduled to begin a second rehab assignment on Thursday with Triple-A Indianapolis.