The Arizona Diamondbacks picked up a huge win Monday night against the St. Louis Cardinals. The D-backs were victorious by the score of 4-2 as they moved within two games of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the division. Any win is a big one as the D-backs are in the final week of the season.

Brandon Webb was the winning pitcher as he tossed seven innings and limited the Cardinals to just two runs on eight hits. Webb was good as he had six strike outs and only walked two batters. Brandon Lyon and Chad Qualls both allowed hits in their inning of action each, but they did not allow a run to score which was the big thing.

Stephen Drew led the team by going 3-4 with a rbi double and a solo home run. Conor Jackson and Chad Tracy both added rbi’s of there own in the game as well. It wasn’t the best offensive performance for the d-backs but it was enough to get the win.

So they D-backs have six games left in the regular season and they are down two games in the division to the Dodgers. Do you think they will catch them?

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The Arizona Diamondbacks beat the San Diego Padres 7-3 on Wenesday night as the two teams finished up a three game series.  After losing the first game, the D-backs came back to win the next two and won the series two games to one.  That is exactly what the team needs to do right now, just keep on winning every series and things will turn out good.

Dan Haren earned the victory as he tossed seven innings, giving up seven hits and three runs. Haren is now 11-5 with a 2.62 era.  Jon Rauch and Tony Pena both pitched a scoreless inning of relief after Haren left the game.

Mark Reynolds and Chris Snyder both hit solo home runs in the eighth inning for the D-backs.  Reynolds and Chad Tracy both finished the game with two rbi while Chris Young and Snyder finished with one rbi each.

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The Arizona Diamondbacks and Washington Nationals played a wild game on Thursday night as both teams battled back and forth in the late innings and into extra innings.  Good news for the Diamondbacks fans though, the D-backs were able to come out on top with the 7-5 victory.

I had a big nice write up that I wrote during the eighth and ninth innings.  I sure wish I had waiting lol. Basically Dan Haren was going for the complete game shutout but let the first two runners on base and then Brandon Lyon allowed two runs to score.  In the end the game went into the 11th innings before the D-backs were able to hold on and get the victory.  Chad Qualls ended up with the victory and is now 2-6 on the season.

Chad Tracy led the team with two rbi in the game while a slew of hitters had one rbi each.  Stephen Drew, Orlando Hudson, Mark Reynolds, Mike Montero, and Alex Romero all had one rbi each.  Great output but the offense.  Of course they scored five runs in extra innings so it wasn’t like they didn’t have the chances to score a lot of runs.

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The Arizona Diamondbacks really struggled at the plate on Wednesday night as they were defeated by the Boston Red Sox by the score of 5-0.  The Diamondbacks only recorded three hits in the game.  It just wasn’t the Diamondbacks night I guess as they couldn’t get anything going at the plate and struggled on the mound.

Randy Johnson pitched six inning while allowing eight runs and two hits.  The Big Unit pitched pretty good there was just no run support to back him up.  Juan Cruz pitched a scorless seventh inning but then gave up a three run home run to Kevin Cash in the eighth inning and was pulled from the game.  Doug Slaten came in and finally calmed things down as he got all three outs in the eighth inning without giving up another run.

The Diamonbacks did threaten to score in the ninth inning as they loaded the bases with two walks and an infield single but Jonathan Papelbon came in and struck out Chad Tracy to end the game.

The Diamondbacks went 1-2 in the series with the Red Sox and will now travel to Florida to take on the Marlins this weekend.  The Marlins are a pretty good team so the Dbacks will have to play good on the road to win the series.

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A very bad inning in the eighth inning caused the Arizona Diamondbacks to lose to the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night.  The Red Sox scored four runs in the eighth inning with two single and a double as they came back and beat the Diamondbacks 5-4.  Tough way to lose a game, hopefully the D-backs can bounce back and get a victory on Wednesday.

Doug Davis had only given up one run until the eighth inning when he was charged with two more runs.  Davis pitched seven innings and really did well up until that eighth inning when he wasn’t able to record an out in the game.  Chad Qualls then came in with two runners on in the eighth inning and gave up four hits and allowed four runs to score.  Two were charged to Davis, and the other two were charged to Qualls.  Tony Pena finally recorded the final out in the eighth inning.

Chad Tracy supplied all the offense for the Diamondbacks as he had a rbi single in the second inning and then a three run home run in the third inning.  Tracy had all four rbi for the Diamondbacks as the rest of the offense just couldn’t get things going.

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The Arizona Diamondbacks completely routed the Oakland Athletics Wednesday night by the score of 11-1.  It was a big butt kicking by the D-backs as the offense hit the ball hard and the pitchers had no problems shutting down the A’s offense.

Dan Haren tossed seven innings while only allowing four hits and one run.  Haren picked up the win and is now 7-4 on the season.  Haren struck out eight batters and also lowered his era to 3.26 on the season.  Juan Cruz tossed the eighth inning and struck out the side.  Chad Qualls then came in and pitched the ninth inning to record one more strick out for the D-backs.  Great job by all three pitchers!

Chris Young and Stephen Drew both hit home runs at the plate for the Diamondbacks.  Young’s was a three run shot while Drew hit a two run homer.  Young and Haren led the Diamondbacks with three rbi each while Drew and Chad Tracy both had two rbi in the game.  We can’t forget about Jeff Salazar who also had one rbi in the game.

So will the great pitching and hot hitting carry over to Thursday when they Diamondbacks and Athletics play the rubber match of the three game series?  For Diamondbacks fans, they are sure hoping so.

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The Arizona Diamondbacks lost 5-3 to the New York Mets in 13 innings on Wednesday night.  The Diamondbacks rallied late in the ninth inning and tied the game when third baseman Mark Reynolds hit a three run homer of Mets’ closer Billy Wagner.  However, the Mets would prevail in this one. 

The Diamondbacks had Brandon Webb on the mound.  Webb gave up three runs, all coming in the fourth inning.  He left the game after going 5 innings, giving up 5 hits, three earned runs and four strikeouts.  Webb was hit in the hip by a ball off the bat of Carlos Delgado in the midst of the fourth inning.  He pitched a scoreless fifth, but was removed for a pinch hitter in the top of the 6^th.

Mets starter Mike Pelfrey had the best start of his young career last night, he held the Diamondbacks’ scoreless in his 8+ innings of works, recording eight strikeouts.  However, he did give up a lead off single to Stephen Drew, at the juncture, Pelfrey left the game and it was the Diamondback’s lucky day.  Billy Wagner came in and tried to close the game out for the Mets.  Orlando Hudson was the first batter he faced, he got him to strike out swinging, Connor Jackson hit a double to centerfield and Drew advanced to third.  Mark Reynolds fell behind in the count when Wagner blew two fastballs by him but, he fouled off the third fastball, then took the slider in the dirt-which appeared to have hit his foot, but after some discussion they home plate umpire did not call it, it looked like the Mets caught a break, however on the next pitch Wagner left a fastball  out over the plate and Reynolds hit it over the fence in left center field to tie the game at three and send it to extra innings. 

With the game tied at three and Edgar Gonzales pithing his second inning in relief, with one out, Luis Castillo reached base on a fielding error by Mark Reynolds.  Gonzales was able to retire David Wright on a popout to first baseman Chad Tracy.  So, with two out Carlos Beltran came to bat and after fouling off two pitches hit a two run walk off homer to win the game for the Mets 5-3.   

The Diamondbacks will have Dan Harren on the mound, and the Mets will counter with   Johan Santana in the rubber game of the series, first pitch is scheduled for 1:10 p.m.  The Diamondbacks will return home to start their interleague series with the Kansas City Royals. 

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