Record: 10-12. Change on 2025: -1.5. 5-inning Record: 5-15-2.
The Diamondbacks came back from five runs down, powered largely by Jacob Amaya’s grand-slam (below). An eighth inning home-run by Angel Ortiz then gave Arizona the lead, as they won consecutive games for the first time since March 4. It wasn’t a great day for the D-backs’ pitchers though, who allowed sixteen hits. Zac Gallen was responsible for almost half of those, giving up seven hits over 2.2 innings, with no walks, a hit batter and one strikeout. Zac was charged with three runs, all earned, and threw
55 pitches. All the other damage came off Kevin Ginkel, who gave up four hits and four runs in the fourth, including a three-run homer, while recording two outs.
There was better work from the other pitchers. Joe Ross tossed a pair of scoreless frames, followed by zeroes from Ryan Thompson (albeit around two hits) and Juan Morillo, before Logan Mercado notched the same with two strikeouts and a walk in the ninth. On offense, Amaya singled in addition to his home-run and drove in a total of five runs, with Tim Tawa, James McCann and Avery Owusu-Asiedu each recording two hits. Tawa also walked, while Luken Baker got a hit and a walk. Corbin Carroll got his first post-hamate hit, going 0-for-3 as a designated hitter.
Tomorrow, it’s a game against the Padres at Salt River Fields, with Brandon Pfaadt starting. That one will be on dbacks.tv and will actually have own own broadcasters! There’s also the USA/Dominican WBC semi-final to enjoy.
