Well the Arizona Diamondbacks are officialy eliminated from post season play as they lose to the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday afternoon. The Cardinals put a hurting on the D-backs as they won 12-3. Congrats to the Los Angeles Dodgers for winning the division.

Five different Diamondbacks pitchers gave up runs in the game as they just didn’t have it going. Doug Davis and Tony Pena were both charged with three runs while Leo Rosales, Yusmeiro Petit, and Jailen Peguero all gave up two runs each. Rosales ended up taking the loss for the team.

Adam Dunn hit a solo home run in the second inning and then Mark Reynolds had a two-run single in the fourth inning but that would be it for the D-backs at the plate. They had problems with Joel Piniero and could just never get anything going.

The D-backs will close out the season with a series against the Colorado Rockies.

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The Arizona Diamondbacks were not able to take advantage of Dodgers loss on Monday night as they also lost. The D-backs were blown out on the road against the San Francisco Giants by the score of 6-2. It was a long night the pitching staff as well as the hitters.

First off, Yusmeiro Petit gave up eight hits and five runs in only 2 2/3 innings as he put the team in a big hole. Petit of course received the loss and dropped his record to 3-5 on the season. The bullpen didn’t throw the ball to badly until Jailen Peguero came in and allowed one run in the seventh inning.

For the D-backs offense, or lack there of, they didn’t score until the top of the ninth inning. Tim Lincecum dominated them for 8 innings before they were finally able to get a couple of runs when Jamie D’Antona grounded into a fielders choice and Adam Dunn scored. The D-backs got a free run on the play as well when Giants pitcher Alex Hinshaw made made an error that allowed Conor Jackson. So yeah, the Diamondbacks could have easily been shut out in this game.

They remain 1.5 games behind the Dodgers in the standings now. Tuesday night’s game is a big one!

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The Arizona Diamondbacks defeated the Chicago Cubs for the second straight night as they won 9-2.  The game was a close one until the D-backs scored six late runs in the 7th and 8th innings and blew the game wide open.  The Diamondbacks can now sweep the Central Division leading Cubs with a victory on Wednesday.

Yusmeiro Petit improved his record to 1-1 as he tossed five innings to get the win.  Petit gave up three hits but only one run while walking four and striking out three batters.  It was a quality start for Petit who made some mistakes but also pitched well at times.

Leo Rosales, Chad Qualls, Tony Pena, and newly acquired Jon Rauch all pitched one inning of relief.  Pena was the only pitcher to give up a run as gave up a solo home run to Daryle Ward in the 8th inning.  Other then that one mistake by Pena, the Diamondbacks bullpen all did a great job.

At the plate for the D-backs, they were lead by Conor Jackson who went 3-5 with three rbi.  Jackson had a solo home run in the first inning off of Jason Marquis and then added a two run double in the 8th inning when the D-backs broke the game wide open.  Stephen Drew, Orlando Hudson, Augie Ojeda, and Mark Reynolds all contributed with one rbi as well.

The Diamondbacks can sweep the Cubs without having Dan Haren or Brandon Webb throw the ball.  Now that will be a big deal if they can pull it off!  Diamondbacks Baseball Blog

The Arizona Diamondbacks suffered a 5-0 loss to the Washtington Nationals on Wednesday evening.  The Diamondbacks just couldn’t get anything going at the plate as they were only able to come up with three hits the entire the game.  The series is now evened up at one game each and they will play the rubber match on Thursday.

Micah Owings tossed 5 2/3 innings to start the game for the Diamondbacks.  He allowed one hit and three runs as he took the loss to fall to 6-8 on the year.  Five walks really seemed to hurt Owings in the game as he just didn’t have the control that he usually does.

Conor Robertson came in after Owings left the game and gave up two more runs while only recording the one out which was the final out in the sixth inning.  Leo Rosales and Yusmeiro Petit tossed the seventh and eighth innings without giving up any more runs to the Nationals.

As the offense was only able to come up with three hits there really isn’t much to blog about to be honest about the offense.  Hopefully they will swing the bats better on Thursday.

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The Arizona Diamondbacks bullpen had a game that they just want to forget as they allowed the Milwaukee Brewers to score three runs and come from behind and win the game 4-3.  Three relief pitchers each gave up one run as the Diamondbacks have now lost two out of three games to the Brewers in the series.

Chad Qualls, Tony Pena, and Brandon Lyon all gave up runs in the game.  Lyon took the loss as he gave up the game winning hit / rbi to Mike Cameron in the top of the ninth inning.  Lyon is now 2-3 on the season.  Diamondbacks starting pitcher Yusmeiro Petit pitched pretty good as he only gave up two his and one run over six innings of action.  It is too bad he wasn’t able to last longer in the game.

Miguel Montero got the D-backs on the board with a rbi single in second inning.  He almost had two rbi’s on the play but Chris Young was tagged out at home.  Young made up for being tagged out in the third inning when he had a rbi single that scored Orlando Hudson.  Justin Upton added a solo home run in the eighth inning for the Diamondbacks but it wasn’t enough at the end of the game.

The Diamondbacks will now have to win on Thursday to salvage a split in the four game series. Will they get it done?

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