• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Phoenix Sports Today

Phoenix Sports News Continuously Updated

  • Cardinals
  • Diamondbacks
  • Coyotes
  • Basketball
    • Mercury
    • Suns
  • Soccer
  • Colleges
    • Arizona State
    • Grand Canyon University
    • Northern Arizona
    • University of Arizona

Diamondbacks Game Preview #63: 6/13 vs. Reds

June 13, 2022 by AZ Snake Pit

San Diego Padres vs. Arizona Diamondbacks
Photo by Sarah Sachs/Arizona Diamondbacks/Getty Images

Thoughts going out today to long-time D-backs broadcaster, Greg Schulte

Today’s Lineups

REDS DIAMONDBACKS
Nick Senzel – CF Jordan Luplow – LF
Brandon Drury – 2B Josh Rojas – 3B
Tommy Pham – LF Ketel Marte – 2B
Joey Votto – 1B Christian Walker – 1B
Kyle Farmer – SS Daulton Varsho – RF
Albert Almora – RF Carson Kelly – C
Mike Moustakas – 3B Jake McCarthy – DH
Aristides Aquino – DH Alek Thomas – CF
Chris Okey – C Geraldo Perdomo – SS
Mike Minor – LHP Merrill Kelly – RHP

Statement from D-backs broadcaster Greg Schulte

D-backs fans, I want to let you know I recently was diagnosed with a medical condition that is requiring me to begin chemotherapy treatment.

Before the 2022 season, the D-backs and I agreed to a “home games only” broadcast schedule. That has nothing to do with my current situation. Now, in addition to missing road game broadcasts, I’ll be missing some home game broadcasts.

I want to thank my family for their love and support, the D-backs, D-backs fans, and my broadcast partners for their support and willingness to cover for me while I’m away from the radio booth.

I appreciate your prayers and privacy as I concentrate on my health at this time. I’m staying positive and hoping for a full recovery.

I look forward to the day I’m back in the radio booth once again calling D-backs games.

If you can’t remember the time when Schulte hasn’t been calling D-backs games, that’s because there hasn’t been one. He has been the team’s regular play-by-play announcer on the radio since the team began play in 1998, and has called well in excess of three thousand Diamondbacks games. His description of the final play in the 2001 World Series Game 7 win over the Yankees is undeniably the most iconic in team history, but he has had quite a few memorable calls over the course of his time in the booth:

“Honk your horns, stomp your feet!”

Greg Schulte has had some memorable calls in his first 2,999 #Dbacks games. Sound #Schulte3000 pic.twitter.com/Q0jHnZGRgg

— Arizona Diamondbacks (@Dbacks) April 20, 2017

Here’s to Greg beating what ails him, and coming back to the booth, in order to deliver a few more magical moments. We wish him all the best.

Torey Lovullo audio


Your browser does not support the HTML5 Audio element.

Torey Lovullo Notes:

Nick Ahmed will have surgery on his right shoulder on Wednesday to clean out some soft tissue and remove some bone spurs. Timeline for return is undetermined.

Daulton Varsho will get the majority of the starts in right field for the time being.

“I’ve had very candid discussions with Daulton and I’ve been very open and honest with him. This is a team move. He’s been our Centerfielder, our starting catcher, and now our starting right fielder. It’s been a team move the entire way.”

Asked about why Varsho in RF and Thomas in CF Torey refused to say one was better than the other. He feels their arms are similar, perhaps with Daulton having the quicker release, but strength and accuracy he feels are the same. This was not an arm strength based decision.

“I don’t know that answer, and that’s what I explained to Daulton. They’re all really good. This is a great problem that a manager has when he has to make these types of tough decisions because you have 1A and 1A.”

Daulton was a little bit frustrated about being moved around again, but he said when he walks out that door he’ll be ready to go.

Joe Mantiply has been an unsung hero and is having a magical season.

On Greg Schulte:

“He’s a fixture in this organization. It’s sad news. I’m not sure what the exact diagnosis is. But the fact that he’s had to step away has been hard on all of us when we heard this news recently. We love him, we miss him. We wish him all the best. He is a true Arizona Diamondback. He loves and supports this organization with everything he has. And in return we love him. I just wanna say get well Guv, we miss ya.“

Filed Under: Diamondbacks

Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

  • Snake Bytes 7/6
  • 2025 NFC West All-Madden Team Per Position Predication
  • Bradley Beal resolution coming in next day or two?
  • Cam Whitmore was nearly traded to Suns in Kevin Durant trade
  • Heat could be landing spot for Bradley Beal?

Categories

Archives

Our Partners

All Sports

  • 247 Sports
  • ArizonaSports.com - 98.7 FM
  • Bleacher Report
  • Heat Waved
  • OurSports Central
  • The Arizona Republic
  • The Sports Fan Journal
  • USA Today

Baseball

  • Arizona Diamondbacks
  • AZ Snake Pit
  • Last Word On Baseball
  • MLB Trade Rumors
  • Venom Strikes

Basketball

  • Phoenix Suns
  • Amico Hoops
  • Basketball Insiders
  • Bright Side Of The Sun
  • High Post Hoops
  • Hoops Hype
  • Hoops Rumors
  • Last Word On Pro Basketball
  • Pro Basketball Talk
  • Real GM
  • Valley Of The Suns

Football

  • Arizona Cardinals
  • Cardinals Gab
  • Cards Wire
  • Deep Dive
  • Last Word On Pro Football
  • NFL Trade Rumors
  • Our Turf Football
  • Pro Football Rumors
  • Pro Football Talk
  • Raising Zona
  • Revenge Of The Birds
  • Words From The Birds

Hockey

  • Elite Prospects
  • Five For Howling
  • Howlin Hockey
  • Last Word On Hockey
  • Pro Hockey Rumors
  • Pro Hockey Talk
  • The Hockey Writers

Soccer

  • Last Word on Soccer
  • MLS Multiplex

College

  • AZ Desert Swarm
  • Busting Brackets
  • College Football News
  • College Sports Madness
  • Devils In Detail
  • House Of Sparky
  • Last Word On College Basketball - Univ of Arizona
  • Saturday Blitz
  • Zags Blog
  • Zona Zealots

Copyright © 2025 · Magazine Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in