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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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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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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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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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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The Arizona Diamondbacks score three runs in each of the first two innings against Jeff Francis and the Colorado Rockies and then they went onto beat the Rockies 8-4.  The Diamondbacks put a lot of pressure on Francis in the game and they scored all eight runs off of him in only 4 2/3 innings.

I love to see the offense come out and score runs like that early in the ball game.  The three runs in the first inning all came on singles that scored one run each.  Orlando Hudson, Conor Jackson, and Mark Reynolds all had rbi singles in the first inning.

In the second inning, it was Stephen Drew connecting on a three run home run to score all three runs for the Diamondbacks.  It was Drew’s fifth home run of the season.  The Diamondbacks then scored one run in the fourth and and fifth innings as they extended their lead.  Hudson had another rbi single in the fourth inning while Chris Burke had a rbi single in the fifth inning when he was pitch hitting for Randy Johnson.

Speaking of Johnson, he picked up his third win of the season as he improved to 3-1.  Johnson tossed five innings of baseball as he gave up nine hits and four runs.  He did give up one home run but it was a solo home run so it didn’t hurt too bad.

Juan Cruz, Chad Qualls, Tony Pena, and, Brandon Lyon all got a inning of action in the game.  All four pitchers did a great job and held the Rockies to zero runs.

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Brandon Webb faced the San Francisco Giants once again, and again the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Giants and Webb picked up the victory.  Webb beat Barry Zito once again and improved his record to 5-0 on the season.  The Diamondbacks and Webb sure are off to a hot start.

Webb tossed six innings and gave up nine hits and three earned runs.  He did strikeout seven batters while walking two.

Chad Qualls, Tony Pena, and Brandon Lyon all pitched one inning in relief.  Lyon picked up the save which was is fifth of the season.

Chris Snyder and Webb both had two RBI for the D-backs.  Eric Byrnes also had one RBI.

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The Arizona Diamondbacks got a 4-2 win at home against the San Francisco Giants on Monday putting the Diamondbacks at 14-5 for the year.  Arizona is off to a great start and is looking like they might be the National League team to beat this season as they are off to a hot start.

The Diamondbacks hit three home runs in the game that accounted for all four of their runs.  Mark Reynolds got the scoring started in the second inning when he hit a solo home run.  Eric Byrnes hit a two run homer in the fifth inning that made the score 3-2.  Orlando Hudson added an insurance run in the seventh inning with a solo home run to make the score 4-2.

The opening pitcher for the Diamondbacks was Micah Owings who threw for 6.1 innings giving up five hits, two runs, and one walk.  He came away with the win putting him at 4-0 for the year.  Chad Qualls, Tony Pena, and Brandon Lyon were brought in to finish off the last 2.2 innings with Brandon Lyon getting his 4th save of the season.

The Diamondbacks will face off against the Giants again tonight for the last game of  the series.

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The Arizona Diamondbacks lost 9-4 on Sunday against the San Diego Padres putting the Diamondbacks at 13-5 for the year.  Arizona is off to a good start leading the National League West but the Rockies are close on their tale and if they want to hold that spot, they can’t be getting beat by the Padres.

Randy Johnson opened up the night for the Diamondbacks pitching for five and two-thirds innings giving up six hits and six runs putting him at 0-1 on the season after taking the loss.  Brandon Medders, Doug Slaten, and Tony Pena were all brought in to try and seize the win but were unsuccessful.  Slaten and Pena both gave up runs in their action.

Chris Burke, Mark Reynolds, Robby Hammock, and Augie Ojeda all picked up and RBI for the night.

The Diamondbacks will welcome the Giants to Arizona for a two game series on Monday night.  Who do you think will come out on top of this one?  I think the Diamondbacks will win both games of the series.