Recaps
[Dbacks.com] This D-backs rookie’s stellar MLB debut (at 29!) ends with 3-inning save – After six Minor League seasons, a serious injury and doubts about whether to keep playing, the 29-year-old made his big league debut on Thursday afternoon. And what a debut it was. “It was cool,” Rashi said. “It was a lot. I wasn’t really nervous until I got on the mound and I was like, ‘OK, it’s time.’ I think the nerves kind of set in a little bit there. I was a little bit shaky today, not my normal self, but got to find
a way. “I try my best not to worry about things that I can’t control, but once I got on the mound, that’s when I could start to control things. And that’s when I kind of put a little bit more pressure on myself than I probably needed to. But that’s all right.”
Team News
[AZ Central] Who is Taylor Rashi? The background on the Diamondbacks pitcher – The Diamondbacks selected him during the minor league portion of the Rule 5 draft in 2022. He was on the injured list for much of 2023, but threw 51 2/3 innings last season. He worked 67 1/3 innings at Reno, the Diamondbacks’ Triple-A affiliate, before making his major league entrance. He spent six seasons in the minor leagues, compiling a 23-12 record and a 3.75 ERA before being called up Aug. 27 by the Diamondbacks. The 29-year-old was born in Torrance, California.
[SI] This D-backs Group One of MLB’s Biggest Disappointments – Fans of the Arizona Diamondbacks know all too well just how disappointing the 2025 season has been, especially following the sheer amount of expectations heaped upon them after an 89-win season. But one aspect of Arizona’s letdown of a season stands out. Even though the D-backs’ bullpen has been an extreme source of frustration, the starting rotation has underperformed its expectations to a higher degree. A recent article by Bleacher Report’s Kerry Miller ranks the D-backs’ starting pitchers as the fourth-biggest disappointment in baseball, failing to measure up to the lofty expectations set for them ahead of the season.
[Arizona Sports] D-backs manager Torey Lovullo fighting for 2026 amid one of strangest seasons in Arizona history – Torey Lovullo does not look like a manager who has lost his voice or his team. To the contrary, he is doing his best work at the end of a long, hard season. He is making a strong case to pilot the Diamondbacks in 2026, when he would become just the 118th manager in baseball history to reach 10 years at the helm of a major league club. Welcome to another plot twist in one of the strangest seasons in Arizona history. Not that long ago, it appeared Lovullo’s goose might be cooked.
And, elsewhere
[MLB] FOUR for Schwarbs! Phils slugger joins exclusive HR club — and had chance for No. 5! – Schwarber came up in the eighth inning with a chance to become the first player in MLB history to hit five in a single game. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Schwarber was only the fourth player within that four-homer club to get a plate appearance with a chance to hit No. 5, joining Bobby Lowe (1894), Lou Gehrig (1932) and Mike Cameron (2002). “I shouldn’t have even asked the question, but I was in the cage and I was like, ‘How many guys have hit five?’” Schwarber said of his mindset heading into that at-bat. “And nobody said anything, so I was like, ‘Oh, OK, well that answers the question.'”
[ESPN] What Royals’ ballpark drama can teach us about MLB’s future – In “Ballpark: Baseball in the American City,” author and architecture critic Paul Goldberger wrote that a ballpark, “evokes the tension between the rural and the urban that has existed throughout American history.” That tension has played out through the different eras of ballparks in the game’s history. It’s playing out now in Kansas City. How might this drama be resolved here, and what might that mean when other MLB teams look to the future? Here are three Battery-inspired models the Royals are considering, and how they currently work — or could work — for your favorite team.
[The Onion] Scalpers Jack Up Price Of Colorado Rockies Ticket To $11 – In what’s being decried as an outrageous case of price-gouging, scalpers have reportedly begun charging as much as $11 for Colorado Rockies tickets, forcing some baseball fans to pay an unreasonably steep price to watch the last-place team. “I can understand $6 or $7 if we’re talking a few rows behind home plate, but some of these guys are out here asking double digits for upper deck,” said fan Connor DeLuca, noting that he paid “almost what a beer costs” for a seat in the mostly empty 200-level at Thursday’s matchup between the Rockies and the Diamondbacks.
