Diamondbacks 6, Rockies 3: Questionable Pitching, Lack of Timely Hitting, and The Long Ball doom Rockies to dropping 4th straight.
by Andrew Martin on Apr 20, 2009 11:05 PM MDT
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PrintJason Marquis looked wild tonight, having trouble keeping pitches down and finding consistent places to put his strikes. As a result, Mark Reynolds and Miguel Montero both took advantages of pitches left right in the wheelhouse or straight over the plate and tallied 4 of the Dbacks' eventual 6 runs on souvenir balls.
Marquis, not known for letting too many runners on via the walk, surrendered 3 free passes while only punching out 3. Marquis also scattered 7 additional hits to the 2 dingers, leading to a closing line of 5.0IP, 6ER, 3K, 3BB, 9H en route to his first L of the season.
But before getting too hard on Jason, there were many other people wearing the black cutoffs tonight who also should take a piece of the blame. The Rockies managed 8 hits of their own, as well as 2 walks, but left 7 men on and were 1-9 with runners in scoring position, including two 2-on-2-out situations, one in the 3rd and one in the 7th which both came up empty. Many, many goats in the lineup, so it isn't fair to pin anyone with the loss. Team effort.
Arizona starter Jon Garland looked very good, striking out 5 while only walking 2 as he pitched into the 7th, allowing 2 runs (1 earned) in his 2nd win of the season.
A very bitter tip-of-the-cap to Arizona CF Chris Young for making 2 massive catches on struck balls that should've not only dropped but caused Chase Field to explode. Dexter Fowler clubbed a massive line drive in the 5th with 2 out and 1 on which Young chased back to the track and almost lost, yet managed to make the catch on. Again, in the 9th, with 1 out, Jeff Baker belted a slider high and deep that may have left the playing field in a park that ISN'T a cathedral that Chris Young was able to snatch before running into the CF wall. I hope that leaves a small bruise, Young!
For the sake of seeing the turning points in the game, I hereby present the Live Win Probability graphs, courtesy of Fangraphs.
Thanks to everyone for making us have to open yet another overflow thread, it's great having things to talk about!
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"Business Socks"
I take it that’s a reference to Flight of the Conchords?
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I didn't know
they were coming to Red Rocks. I may have to add that to my summer concert schedule. Which would extend my summer concert schedule to 2 acts. w00t.
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It is, yes
Very funny show. I will be seeing them at Red Rocks as well…
by Business Socks on Apr 21, 2009 11:15 AM MDT up reply actions
couldn't stop laughing when I read "Business Socks".
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I missed the game
But oh balls. Why are we rubbish now? (I wasn’t a NN before today – perhaps 4 losses in a row is my threshold)
We tend to do better when we jump out to an early lead
But that’s kind of intuitive.
Garland was pitching VERY well the first couple of innings. He was busting left handers inside and low, and painting the zone in the process, and throwing a lot of strikes.
He started to fall apart a bit by the 4th, but it was almost too late at that point. The Dbacks were up 2-1 and we’d already blown an opportunity.
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by Andrew Martin on Apr 21, 2009 9:25 AM MDT up reply actions
Has frustration darkened the tint of my purple glasses
or was Ron Kulpa more generous to Garland low in the low and outside than he was to Marquis?
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by Andrew T. Fisher on Apr 21, 2009 9:40 AM MDT up reply actions
In the Snakepit section,
we definitely thought the zone grew in the later innings, FWIW.
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by DbacksSkins on Apr 21, 2009 10:26 AM MDT up reply actions
I thought so too
If I ever posted in game threads, I would have posted after the first inning saying something along the lines of “This is going to be a night for pitchers. Kulpa’s zone down and on the corners is huge and it will benefit the pitcher who can pound that part of the zone.”
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by Franchise26 on Apr 21, 2009 10:26 AM MDT up reply actions
I honestly couldn't say
But in his defense, Marquis was all over the place, while Garland was locating really well the first few.
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by Andrew Martin on Apr 21, 2009 10:31 AM MDT up reply actions
Looking at the Gameday strikezone
The umpire was pretty inconsistent for both pitchers, though it looked like Marquis didn’t go low and outside as often as Garland did. But you’d be hard-pressed to get a call more generous than the first strike to Tracy in the first.
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