True Elation 7: Byrnes’ 100th Career Homer Part of Run Barrage Marking Doug Davis’ Comeback
(AP Photo/John Bazemore)
The Arizona Diamondbacks, who were batting below .200 as a team during the last six games–they won 2 and lost 4–went back to the formula that led to their early success in beating Atlanta 11-1 tonight. They scored early and often, handing Doug Davis a 5-run lead before he threw the first pitch in his comeback from thyroid cancer surgery. Davis then cruised to victory, giving up only 1 run in a 7 inning, 5-hit, 89-pitch effort. (Max Scherzer pitched the 8th and Doug Slaten the 9th).
The five-run barrage in the first inning started with a solo homer by Stephen Drew, batting second. They got another homer later in the inning–a two-run shot by Eric Byrnes, batting seventh, for the 100th of his career. If he managed not to hurt himself today, let’s hope that this gets Byrnesie going; sometimes hitters slow up as they approach a milestone. Next time up, he singled and eventually scored from third on a single by Chris Young. So Byrnesie had two hits, two RBI and he also scored two runs.
Homers were the name of this game for the D’Backs. In addition to Drew and Byrnes, Conor Jackson, Chris Young, and Mark Reynolds went yard. Chris Snyder had a 2-run double.
Welcome back, DD!
Congratulations, Byrnesie!
Now let’s get Randy Johnson a step closer to 300 tomorrow!
ByrnesBlogger1
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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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