The D-backs currently have the longest winning streak in the National League. That sounds a bit better than “have won three games in a row”. Though Arizona are still one off matching their longest winning streak of the season: April 14-18, they won two games in Baltimore, then came back to Arizona and took the first two against Toronto. It has been almost a year since the D-backs have won more than four in a row: in mid-June 2025, they won five against the Mariners and the Padres. Since then, they have won four on five different
occasions, only to go 0-5 the next time. As Jack noted yesterday, long winning streaks have been rare in the Hazen era generally.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens after last night’s glorious walk-off win. Will the impetus from that carry forward, or will there be an adrenaline crash as a result? To find out if there’s a trend, I looked at how the team performed in the next game after their last ten walk-off victories, which takes us back to September 2024. Here are the result in those contests:
- Apr 7: L(w) 3-4
- Sep 24: L 4-5
- Sep 17: L 1-5
- Aug 23: W 10-1
- Aug 22: W(w) 6-5
- Aug 10: W 13-6
- Jun 15: L 2-8
- Jun 10: W 10-3
- Apr 13: W 5-2
- Sep 16: L(w) 2-3
Well, there we go. The Diamondbacks have lost their last three contests following walk-off wins, but overall, the D-backs have gone 5-5, including a pair of walk-off losses and one occasion where there were back-to-back walk-off wins. Those came in August 2025, when the D-backs beat the Guardians 3-2 in ten innings, and followed that up by beating the Reds 6-5 in eleven innings. But overall, while this is a small sample size, it doesn’t appear that there has been much of an impact, in either direction, resulting from a D-backs walk-off win. We’ll see what results this afternoon, as Arizona goes for the sweep.
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