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The Skinny: Adam Dunn hit his first home run as a Diamondback, and Tony Pena bailed out Brandon Lyon in the 9th inning, as Arizona hung on to beat San Diego 7-6. The D-Backs jumped on San Diego starter Josh Banks early, putting up four runs in the first. Arizona added two more on Dunn's [...]
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Another day of NFL preseason, and there's more bickering and disagreement coming out of Cardinals' camp. Disgruntled wide receiver Anquan Boldin has reportedly reiterated a trade demand to Cardinals' brass, who have told him he will not be traded. Further reports indicate that the Cardinals' last offer to Boldin was for roughly half of what [...]
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It's back to division play for the Arizona Diamondbacks, as they open a 6-game homestand with a 3-game series against the woeful San Diego Padres. And playing in the division is fine with Arizona. The Diamondbacks have gone 31-16 against teams in their division this season. If the NL West standings were [...]
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The Cardinals finally got their first preseason win under the guidance of head coach Ken Whisenhunt Saturday night with a 27-17 win over the Kansas City Chiefs. My first thought was "who cares?" NFL preseason football is the biggest scam perpetrated on the American sports fan ever. Invariably I get jacked up for the first preseason [...]
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The Skinny: Roy Oswalt limited the Arizona Diamondbacks to just 1 hit over 8 innings, and Ty Wigginton hit a 3-run homer in the first inning, giving the Houston Astros a 3-0 victory Sunday at Minute Maid Park. After Stephen Drew singled in the third, Oswalt retired 15 straight D-Back batters before giving way to closer [...]
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The Skinny: Miguel Montero and Chris Young each hit grand slams and Yusmeiro Petit matched his longest career outing, going 7 innings in the Arizona Diamondbacks' 11-5 win over the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park. Montero added a solo home run later in the game, and narrowly missed a third home run in [...]
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The Skinny: The Arizona Diamondbacks brought their hitting shoes to Minute Maid Park in Houston, scorching the Astros 12-2 in a game that was never in doubt. The Diamondbacks scored 3 runs in the first inning off of Astros' starter Wandy Rodriguez and never looked back. The 12 runs was more than enough [...]
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The Arizona Cardinals have announced their preseason broadcast personnel for the season. Former Cardinal center and Valley talk-show host Bill Lewis will handle the color commentary. And handling the play-by-play call will be none other than Mike Goldberg. Yes, that's the same Mike Goldberg who announces all the action of UFC. No, [...]
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It's always fun when the Astros and the Diamondbacks get together. Mostly because it looks like an intrasquad game, seeing as the two squads have exactly the same color schemes. Of course, the Diamondbacks call there shade of red "Sedona Red", while the Astros sport "brick red". In case you had any trouble grasping [...]
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The Skinny: Adam Dunn's 2-run single highlighted a 5-run 5th inning, and the Arizona Diamondbacks took the rubber game of a 3-game series, beating the Colorado Rockies 6-2. Chris Snyder started the scoring in the 5th with a 2-run homer, and the next batter, Chris Burke followed with a solo shot (his [...]
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Yesterday, I read the news that the Diamondbacks had activated left handed reliever Doug Slaten from the disabled list. As is customary when I read articles or blogs online, I then scrolled down to read the comments left by users. There were none (and there still are none almost 19 hours after the story was [...]
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The Skinny: Brad Hawpe jacked a two-run homer off of Diamondbacks' reliever Jon Rauch in the bottom of the 8th inning, breaking a 4-4 tie, and lifting the Colorado Rockies to a 6-5 win at Coors Field. The D-Backs had battled back to tie the game at 4 after trailing 3-0 and 4-1, but the bullpen [...]
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We are just 17 days away from the start of college football season, and honestly, I can't wait anymore. I've played the season out in my head and on paper, and I've come to the conclusion, that much like last year, the Pac-10 is a conference with one incredibly strong team, and a bunch of other [...]
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Two weeks ago, when the Los Angeles Dodgers acquired Manny Ramirez from the Boston Red Sox, many experts gave the upper hand in the division to Joe Torre's team. Given the Diamondbacks' offensive struggles, and their failure to pick up a bat at the trade deadline, you can understand most pundits believing that a [...]
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Newly acquired Diamondbacks' slugger Adam Dunn comes to the desert as the Major League leader in home runs with 32 (tied with the Phillies' Ryan Howard and Carlos Quentin of the White Sox). There's been a lot of back and forth between fans on whether or not the Diamondbacks should have added another bat to the [...]
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September 5, 2007, in a win over the San Diego Padres, Arizona Diamondbacks' second baseman Orlando Hudson injured his left thumb. The injury ended up requiring surgery, and Hudson missed the last 21 games of the season, and all of the playoffs. On Saturday, in a loss to the Atlanta Braves, Hudson injured his left wrist. [...]
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Now that we've seen 1/20th of the Arizona Cardinals schedule unfold, I got to thinking. What are the Cardinals' chances in '08? Sure, I've read all the magazines, and listened to all of the experts' opinions. But what about the guys really in the know? What does Vegas think? Just tooling around the internet, [...]
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For anyone who follows the Phoenix Suns, it appeared that headed into this offseason, the number one goal for this team was to acquire a backup point guard. Someone capable of spelling the aging Steve Nash for 12 to 15 minutes per game. There's even been talk of having said backup point guard [...]
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Atlanta rookie right hander Charlie Morton shut down the Arizona Diamondbacks bats for 7 innings, and the Braves exploded for 4 runs in the 8th inning, which proved to be the difference in a 6-4 at Chase Field on Thursday night. Morton, who had lost his last 3 decisions, and came into the ballgame with an ERA well [...]
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The Arizona Diamondbacks, fresh off nearly being the victims of a perfect game by Pittsburgh's Jeff Karstens on Wednesday, shift their sights to a 4-game weekend series with the Atlanta Braves at Chase Field. It is the Braves' only appearance in Phoenix this year. The Braves have struggled mightily since the All-Star break, going 7-12, [...]
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Former Arizona State running back Ryan Torain, in his first NFL training camp, suffered a big setback in his quest to make the Denver Broncos' roster. Torain today suffered a fractured left elbow during a morning 9-on-7 drill. He is expected to miss up to 3 months. Torain had been running 3rd string on [...]
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Randy Johnson was very good on Wednesday afternoon at Chase Field. Jeff Karstens of the Pirates was better. Karstens, making only his 11th major league start, had a perfect game broken up with 2 outs in the 8th inning, and threw a complete game 2-hit shutout as the Pirates blanked the D-Backs 2-0. Chris [...]
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