Starting pitcher Randy Johnson only lasted 3 2/3 innings on Tuesday night as he gave up eight hits and seven runs including two home runs.  The “Big Unit” put the Diamondbacks in a big hole early in the game and they were un able to dig their way out of as they lose to the Milwaukee Brewers 8-6.  Johnson is now 4-7 on the year and needs to start throwing the ball better.

Connor Robertson pitched three innings after Johnson left the game and allowed two hits and one run.  Leo Rosales and Doug Slaten pitched the final 2 1/3 innings without allowing another run to score.

Conor Jackson went 3-4 with three rbi and a two run home run to lead the Diamondbacks at the plate.  Jackson had a great game at the plate for the D-backs.  Chris Young, Miguel Montero, and Randy Johnson all had one rbi in the game but it wasn’t quite enough to pull out the victory.

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The Arizona Diamondbacks welcomed the Milwaukee Brewers into the desert with on Monday night and they came away with a 6-3 victory as the two teams opened up a four game series.  Doug Davis pitched well enough and then the bullpen did their job as the D-backs were able to hold on for the victory.

Davis tossed 5 2/3 innings while giving up five hits and three runs to record his third win of the season.  Davis is now 3-3 on the year with a 3.79 era.  It wasn’t a great start for Davis, but he pitched well enough to keep his team in the game and that is what you ask your starting pitcher to do.

Chad Qualls, Tony Pena, and Brandon Lyon all pitched great as they only allowed the Brewers to have two hits after Davis left the game.  Lyon recorded his 17th save of the season in the game.

Mark Reynolds went 3-3 in the game and finished with three rbi.  Reynolds had two doubles that scored a run each time and than added a solo home run in the ninth inning for a little insurance.  Justin Upton and Conor Jackson both added rbi’s of their own as well in the game.

Great win for the Diamondbacks as they are now 42-41 and one game above .500

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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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Dan Haren and Josh Beckett were locked in a great pitchers duel on Monday night and the Arizona Diamondbacks came away with a 2-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox.  The two teams battled back and forth until the Diamondbacks were finally able to score both of their runs in the seventh inning.  The Red Sox didn’t score until the eighth inning, and they fell one run short in the end.

Haren pitched the first seven innings of the game and only allowed two hits while striking out five batters.  It was a great outing for Haren as he improved his record to 8-4 with a 3.04 era.  Tony Pena pitched the eighth inning and gave up a sac fly to J.D. Drew and then Brandon Lyon pitched the ninth inning to pick up his 16th save.

Chris Young had a rbi double and Chris Snyder had a rbi ground out in the seventh inning to provide both of the Diamondbacks runs.  The D-backs were lucky to get two runs off of Beckett as he was really dealing on the mound.

The D-backs will try to go up 2-0 in the series against the Red Sox on Tuesday evening.  Make sure to tune in and watch another great Diamondbacks game!

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Justin Upton connected and hit a solo home run in the eighth inning off of Oakland Athletics reliever Keith Foulke to give the Arizona Diamondbacks a 2-1 victory.  Upton came up huge in the game as the Diamondbacks were able to win two out of three games against the A’s.

Besides Upton’s heroics in the eighth inning, the other Diamondbacks run came in the fourth inning when Chris Young hit a sacrafice fly that scored Upton.

Doug Davis was awesome on the mound as he pitched six innings, allowing three hits and only one run.  However since there wasn’t any run support Davis ended up getting a no decision in the game.  Tona Pena was the winning pitcher and is now 1-0 after he tossed a scoreless eighth inning.  Brandon Lyon notched his 15th save of the season as he held the A’s down in the ninth inning.

Now the Diamondbacks will get ready to face off against the Minnesota Twins this weekend.  It should be a pretty interesting series that hopefully the D-backs will come out on top.

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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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Brandon Webb had his worst start of the season as he only pitched 3 1/3 innings after giving up nine hits and seven runs while walking five batters and giving up two home runs.  It was an old fashioned butt kicking put on my the A’s.

Besides Webb giving up seven runs, Edgar Gonzalez and Tony Pena gave up one run each.  Brandon Lyon gave up four runs on two home runs, and Doug Slaten gave up two more runs on a home run.  Once the game was finally over the A’s had hit six home runs off the Diamondbacks pitchers.  You can’t win a game pitching like that!

Well, I you also can’t win very many games when you only score one run in the game like what happened as well.  The Diamondbacks had all sorts of problems at the plate as they only scored one run in the game.  That one run came in the fifth inning when Gonzalez grounded into a fielders choice and Mark Reynolds scored.

The D-backs will try to get back on track against the A’s on Wednesday.  It is hard to tell which Diamondbacks team will show up.  Hopefully they good one so we have something positive to blog about.

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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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