True Elation 2: D’Backs Pound Rox 8-2
(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
You know it’s going to be a good day when Eric Byrnes reaches True Elation by the third inning. He singled in the first, then, in the third inning, he smacked a two-run homer that put the Diamondbacks up 3-1. After that, there was no looking back for the Snakes.
Not that they were done with 3 runs. Byrnesie reached on a walk in the fifth, and was driven home by an Orlando Hudson homer. In the 6th, Justin Upton hit a two-run homer.
Meanwhile, the Rockies had to tangle with Brandon Webb. They have been a bugaboo for Webb in the past, but not today. Webby went 8 innings, giving up only 2 runs, and walking 1 while striking out six. Qualls pitched the 9th, allowing one walk but no hits.
These intradivision wins are important. As is often said, you can’t win a division in April, but you can lose one. The D’Backs are setting up their season well by winning against their own divisional rivals.
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Kellia Ramares is a freelance journalist, poet and baseball blogger from Oakland, CA. Kellia writes (and does some audio work) about baseball, especially the Arizona Diamondbacks, on her blog, Down The Left Field Line: Life, Baseball & Eric Byrnes. (http://byrnesblog.azsportshub.com), under the name ByrnesBlogger1. She expects to expand her sports journalism from baseball fandom to stories on social issues in a sports context in a website she is building in the fourth quarter of 2007 to be an annex to the "Byrnesblog".
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