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Dbacks Avoid The Sweep Following the ‘sweep’ over the Texas Rangers in a short 2 game series earlier this week, the Diamondbacks would have to welcome the Milwaukee Brewers into town for these 2 teams first meeting since the Diamondbacks knocked out the Brew crew in last year’s Wild Card round. While this Brewers team isn’t the same pitching wise since we last saw them, but … [Read more...] about Dbacks Avoid Sweep Vs The Milwaukee Brewers 

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images The Diamondbacks high-powered offense faces off against the Diamondbacks low-powered pitching at Coors Field At time of writing, only the pitching matchup for the first game has been announced, and either way, pitching matchup analysis is probably less important at Coors than it is just about anywhere else, I thought I’d take five … [Read more...] about Series Preview #49: Diamondbacks @ Rockies

Allan Henry-Imagn Images Our pitching staff heads to Coors. What could possibly go wrong? Recaps [Dbacks.com] How the D-backs pulled off a see-saw, walk-off victory in the desert - It is impossible to break down every single wild thing that happened during the Diamondbacks’ 11-10 walk-off win over the Brewers on Sunday afternoon at Chase Field. Heck, just trying to … [Read more...] about Snake Bytes, 7/16: The odd run in twenty-one

Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images Before the game today, the team DFA’d Dylan Floro and recalled Blake Walston from Reno. Floro had given up 10 runs in his last 3 outings, and in 15 games (16 innings) posted a 9.37 ERA, an ERA+ of 45, with a FIP that was 6.30 and a WHIP of 1.653... Andres Chapparro, who he was traded for has hit the same number of home runs as Floro … [Read more...] about Diamondbacks 11, Milwaukee 10: Wild win

Photo by Paul Hennessy/Anadolu via Getty Images Two weeks left, and all very much to play for! Where will the D-backs finish in the wild-card race, and why? Makakilo: I predict they will secure the second or third Wild Card in the NL. My thoughts follow: On 15 September, FanGraphs projected standings showed the Mets would reach 88 wins (the lowest of the 4 teams … [Read more...] about SnakePit Round Table: The Final Countdown…