The Diamondbacks traveled to Shea Stadium on Tuesday to take on the New  York Mets.  While the Diamondbacks are currently in first place in the NL West, they are not a great road team compiling a 13-18 road record this season.  When the Diamondbacks last saw the Mets they had a 20-8, the lost 2-3 to the Mets and since then are 14-22.  After a fast start, the Diamondbacks as a team are hitting .251 and are struggling to consistently put runs on the board; they still hold first place in the NL West as everyone else in division is playing .500 baseball.  However, the best thing to happen to the Diamondbacks’ offense was Mets pitching.  The Diamondbacks as a team had four homeruns in their 9-5 win over the Mets.  

Micha Owings started the game for the Diamondbacks.  In his last outing Owings was rocked for four earned runs off eight hits before leaving the game after three innings.  Owings has had two starts against the Mets and has a 0-1 record with a 6.94 era in those two games and didn’t fare much better in Tuesday night’s start.  In 41/3 innings he gave up 5 runs, four earned, on 8 hits with three walks and two strikeouts.  Owings who averages 2.6 walks per nine innings had give up two walks in the first inning of the game.  He was not sharp and lucky for him, neither were any of Mets pitchers.   

The Diamondbacks scored a run in the top of the first inning to take an early 1-0 lead.  John Maine gave up a long home run to Orlando Hudson in the top of the fifth to cut the Mets lead 5-3.   In the sixth inning with Mets reliever Claudio Vargas on the mound, the Diamondback’s would score two runs and tie the game.   Vargas walked the lead off man before hitting  Justin Upton with a pitch, Jeff Salazar’s ground out allowed the runners to advance to second and third, with the tying runs on, Augie Ojeda drove them in when he hit a line drive that eluded the glove of Mets first baseman Carlos Delgado and landed in right field.  Ojeda would advance to second on the throw by Endy Chavez, but was stranded there when Chris Young flied out to end the inning. 

In the top of the seventh, with weather reports showing that rain was near and with the wind picking up at Shea Stadium, the Umps suspended play and the Mets grounds crew secured the tarp on the field.  The rain delay would last one hour.  When play resumed, the Diamondbacks took the lead on a homerun by Chris Snyder off Met’s reliever Joe Smith.  In the top of the ninth inning the Diamondbacks scored three more runs when Duaner Sanchez gave up a two run homer to Stephen Drew and a solo shot to Conner Jackson.   

The Diamondbacks will have Brandon Webb on the mound tonight, and he will be opposed by Mets starter Mike Pelfrey.  Game time is set for 7:10 p.m.

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The Arizona Diamondbacks lost for the second straight time to the Pittsburgh Pirates as they feel 5-3 on Monday afternoon in Pittsburgh.  The Diamondbacks had started the four game series off by winning the first two games but then lost the next two to split the series.  Another up and down series as the D-backs just can’t seem to get things going to run off a win streak of five or six games.

On Monday, it was Randy Johnson taking the loss as he threw 5 2/3 innings while allowing six hits and five runs (four were earned).  The Big Unit walked four batters while striking out three so he did have some control issues.

Three errors by the Diamondbacks defense sure didn’t help out the pitchers either.  Johnson, Miguel Montero, and Mark Reynolds all had errors in the game.

At the plate for the Diamondbacks, three different players had a rbi in the game.  Reynolds connected on a solo home run in the fourth inning.  Chris Young had a rbi ground rule double in the seventh inning and in the eighth inning, Stephen Drew hit a solo home run.  The D-backs just needed to have some runners on base when those two home runs were hit.

I should also not that that Diamondbacks manager Bob Melvin was ejected from the game in the second inning when he argued about a home run call that was over turned.  Reynolds hit a fly ball to right field that was caught by a fan that put their glove over the wall.  The call was an initial home run, but the umpires later ruled that it was a double instead.  Melvin was quickly tossed after that.

The Diamondbacks will play the New York Mets on Tuesday night.  Diamondbacks Home Plate will also have a new blogger in place as “B” who blogs for our Mets Blog, will be covering the Diamondbacks series here at Diamondbacks Home Plate as well.

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The Arizona Diamondbacks were pretty much man handled on Wednesday afternoon by the Milwaukee Brewers.  The Brewers beat up on the Diamondbacks by the score of 10-1 as they swept the Diamondbacks in a three game series.  The Diamondbacks are now 2-7 in theie last nine games and are 32-28 in the season.

Micah Owings only lasted three innings and took the loss for the D-backs.  Owings gave up eight hits and five runs as his record dropped to 6-4.  Edgar Gonzalez did a terrible job on the mound as he came in for Owings.  Gonzlez gave up six hits, five runs, and two home runs in only three innings of action.

Finally Doug Slaten and Brandon Lyon were able to calm things down as they pitched the eighth and ninth innings without giving up a run.  It was a little too late however, as there was no way the offense was going to get out of that big hole.

Once again the Diamondbacks hitters struggled at the plate as they only scored one run.  Mark Reynolds singled in Chris Burke in the third inning for the only rbi in the game for the Diamondbacks.

Arizona will now get a off day on Thursday and then play the Pittsburgh Pirates over the weekend.  This weekend I really see the Diamondbacks getting back on track and atleast winning three out of four games against the Pirates.

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The Arizona Diamondbacks didn’t get off to a good start on their series with the Milwaukee Brewers as they lost 4-3 on Monday evening.  The Diamondacks are now 2-6 in their last eight games as they are struggling at this point in the season.

Doug Slaten ended up taking the loss for the D-backs as he gave up a solo home run to Prince Fielder in the eighth inning that proved to be the winning run in the game.  Slaten is now 0-2 on the season as he let his team down on Monday night.

Doug Davis went six innings while giving up six hits and three runs in the game.  Davis got the no decision and remains 2-2 on the season.

Chris Snyder had two rbi’s to lead the Diamondbacks.  He had a rbi double in the second inning and then added a solo home run in the seventh inning.  Mark Reynolds also had a infield rbi single in the fourth inning for the D-backs.

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Tony Pena and Chad Qualls each gave up a run in the eithth and ninth inning as the Arizona Diamondbacks blew a one run lead and lost to the San Francisco Giants by the score of 4-3.  It was too bad that the bullpen couldn’t hold things down and get Randy Johnson a win as he pitched pretty good.

Qualls gave up the game winning home run in the top of the ninth inning to Randy Winn as he took the loss and is now 0-5 on the season.  In the eighth inning, it was Pena walking Fred Lewis with the bases loaded that scored the third run for the Giants and tied the game.

Johnson had thrown seven innings of six hit baseball while giving up two runs in the game.  He was in line to get the win but the bullpen just couldn’t do their job.

Justin Upton had a solo home run and rbi triple to lead the Diamondbacks at the plate with two rbi.  Conor Jackson also had a rbi on a single in the fourth inning.

It was just a bad series for the Diamondbacks as they were swept by the Giants.  Can the D-backs bounce back this weekend as they take on the Washington Nationals?

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Well that was a bad game all around for the Arizona Diamondbacks as they lost to the San Francisco Giants 11-3 on Wednesday night.  The fifth and sixth innings were like a dagger in the hear of the Diamondbacks as the Giants blew the game wide open with four runs in each of the innings.

Diamondbacks starting pitcher Doug Davis was roughed up for nine hits and six runs in only five innings of action.  Davis served up a grand slam to Ray Durham before being taken out of the game.  Davis’s record is now 2-2 on the season.

The Diamondbacks bullpen wasn’t much better than Davis however.  Juan Cruz gave up three runs before leaving the game with a sore neck, Doug Slaten and Edgar Gonzalez both gave up one run before Brandon Lyon was finally able to come in and pitch a scoreless inning.

Mark Reynolds had a solo home run in the eighth inning for the Diamondbacks.  Other then that it was a two-run double by Justin Upton in the sixth inning that scored the other two runs for the D-backs.

Overall it was just a bad game for the Diamondbacks, and hopefully they will come out on Thursday afternoon and pick up a win against these same Giants.

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Wow, you can call that a disappointing series as the Arizona Diamondbacks were swept by the Florida Marlins.  The series was a matchip between two divsion leaders but it was all Marlins in all three games.

On Thursday night the Marlins shut out the Diamondbacks by the score of 4-0.  The Diamondbacks just couldn’t get going even though they had seven hits in the game.

Dan Haren pitched 6 1/3 innings as he took the loss and dropped his record to 5-3 on the season.  Haren gave up eight hits and four runs in the game.

With the sweep, the Diamondbacks are now 28-19 on the season.  Diamondbacks Blog

The Arizona Diamondbacks fell to the Florida Marlins by the score of 3-2 as the two division leaders battled on Tuesday night.  The Diamondacks just didn’t get the big hit that they needed to late in the ball game.

Micah Owings dropped to 5-2 on the season as he took the loss.  Owings didn’t pitch too badly but he did give up seven hits and three runs through seven innings of action.  Tony Pena pitched a scoreless eighth innign in relief of Owings.

Conor Jackson had a sac fly and Chris Snyder had a solo home run for the Diamondbacks runs.  No other batter stepped up in the game to provide the big hit late in the game.

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Brandon Webb is on fire!  Webb is now 9-0 after beating the Colorado Rockies on Thursday night.  Webb gave up six hits and three runs over 7 1/3 innings but it was good enough to still get the victory as the Diamondbacks won 8-5.

Doug Slaten, Chad Qualls, Brandon Medders, and Brandon Lyon all pitched in relief of Webb.  Medders had some trouble as he gave up two runs, but then Lyon came in to get the save.  Lyon is now up to 12 saves on the season.

Chris Snyder had the big hit for the Diamondbacks as he hit a three run home run in the fifth inning.  Snyder led the D-backs with three rbi in the game.  Orlando Hudson and Justin Upton both had two rbi.  Stephen Drew made the rbi column as well as he had one rbi.

The Diamondbacks are now 26-15 in the season as they are playing really good baseball.  They will try to continue playing good this weekend as they play the struggling Detroit Tigers.

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The Arizona Diamondbacks have the Colorado Rockies number right now as once again they beat the Rockies.  The Diamondbacks did have to hang on in the late innings however as the Rockies made a nice comeback but still feel short by one run as the Diamondbacks won 4-3.

Micah Owings pitched six innings of shutout baseball to get the win.  He only allowed five hits in his six innings of action and he lowered his era to 3.81.  Owings is now 5-1 on the season.

Things got a little messy in the Diamondbacks bullpen as Chad Qualls, Doug Slaten, and Tony Pena all gave up one run in relief.  Brandon Lyon was able to come into the game in the ninth inning and secure the game as he picked up his 11th save of the season.  Lyon did have some trouble as well as he gave up two hits, but he got out of the jam unlike the other three relief pitchers.

Orlando Hudson led the Diamondbacks with a two run double in the fifth inning.  Conor Jackson had a rbi single as well for the D-backs.  The other run came off a double play by Eric Byrnes so no rbi was awarded.

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