Team News
Corbin Barrels: Carroll’s slam backs Rodriguez en route to 100th career win
“I had seen a few [changeups] in that at-bat before,” Carroll said. “Left-on-left changeups are not too common, but I felt like it helped, had seen it that at-bat before, and was able to put a good swing on it.”
The homer was a continuation of Carroll’s dominance against left-handed pitchers this year. In 90 at-bats against southpaws, he has a .389/.446/.667 slash line. https://www.mlb.com/dbacks/news/corbin-carroll-hits-grand-slam-in-dbacks-win-over-angels
Eduardo Rodriguez joins shortlist of Venezuelan pitchers with 100 career wins
“It feels great … getting to 100 wins is something that I wanted to accomplish,” Rodriguez said. “Especially for my country … there is not too many of them, and being part of that is just something special for me.”
https://arizonasports.com/mlb/arizona-diamondbacks/eduardo-rodriguez-venezuela-pitchers-with-100-career-wins
Corbin Carroll’s grand slam highlights Diamondbacks’ palate cleanser win over Angels
“I think the dugout felt an immediate sigh of relief and took the air out of some very tense moments and games over the past 12, 14 days,” manager Torey Lovullo said. “And that’s what we want guys to do. We want them to come up, build an inning, see pitches, have their type of at-bat and then when the right person in the right situation comes up and slugs and breaks the game open, it’s not by accident.” https://arizonasports.com/mlb/arizona-diamondbacks/corbin-carrolls-grand-slam-highlights-palate-cleanser-over-angels
Eduardo Rodriguez Hurls Gem for 100th Career Victory
Rodriguez final line was 7 IP, 6H, 1 ER, 3BB, 5K, 1 HR. That lowered his ERA to 2.45. Rodriguez made heavy use of his four-seam fastball, tossing it up there 56% of the time. He generated seven whiffs and only allowed one hard-hit ball on the pitch.
https://www.si.com/mlb/diamondbacks/onsi/eduardo-rodriguez-hurls-gem-100th-career-victory-angels
What D-backs’ Series Win Over Lowly Angels Told Us — And What It Didn’t https://www.si.com/mlb/diamondbacks/onsi/d-backs-series-win-lowly-angels-takeaways
Diamondbacks Retain Veteran Catcher Despite Recent DFA https://www.si.com/mlb/diamondbacks/onsi/diamondbacks-retain-veteran-catcher-despite-recent-dfa
Diamondbacks GM Mike Hazen: ‘I’m planning on buying’
https://arizonasports.com/mlb/arizona-diamondbacks/gm-mike-hazen-im-planning-on-buying
Waldschmidt crushes homer in first game back at Triple-A
https://www.mlb.com/dbacks/news/d-backs-ryan-waldschmidt-homers-first-game-back-triple-a?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage
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2026 MLB mock draft: Our expert makes every first-round pick https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/49097032/2026-mlb-mock-draft-expert-first-round-picks-no-1-chicago-white-sox-cholowsky-emerson-lackey
Digging into 5 Trade Deadline hot topics
https://www.mlb.com/news/2026-mlb-trade-deadline-roundtable
10 All-Star candidates who deserve more love in the polls
https://www.mlb.com/news/2026-all-star-candidates-who-deserve-more-votes
Anything Goes
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There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
The little indents on golf balls aren’t just there to help you differentiate it from other sports balls. The dimples on a golf ball’s surface create a thin turbulent boundary layer of air that clings to the ball’s surface, which affects the overall trajectory of the ball.
The remote control was invented earlier than the television.
30 years before the first digital television, Nikola Tesla invented a “teleautomaton” that could control certain devices at a distance through radio waves. His first remote-controlled device was a remote-contolled boat in 1898. Since then, people adapted the wired remote for television. However, due to injuries, they developed it further to be a wireless remote.
Cows do not have upper front teeth.
They eat their food by roughly grinding grass in their mouths and then swallowing it whole. Cows do not need front teeth to properly grind their food.
