Team News
Diamondbacks’ Brandon Pfaadt struggles giving up 7 runs in loss to Philadelphia
https://arizonasports.com/mlb/arizona-diamondbacks/brandon-pfaadt-6/3582867/
Pfaadt Struggles Through Rain as Phillies Dampen D-backs
More Arizona Diamondbacks pitching trouble: Corbin Burnes to miss time with shoulder issue
“We were with him. ‘What are you thinking? What do you want to do?’ He’s like, ‘I’m good, let me just keep going.’ At some point, we just all decided the best thing to do, to get ahead of it, is let’s examine it, get some imaging, pull back if we need to and let him potentially skip a start, and he should be good for the rest of the year.”
Burnes likely to miss next start due to right shoulder inflammation
https://www.mlb.com/dbacks/news/corbin-burnes-likely-to-miss-next-start-due-to-shoulder-inflammation
Diamondbacks Ace to Miss Next Start With Shoulder Trouble
Diamondbacks Get Good News on Justin Martinez’s MRI
Good news on Justin Martinez- the MRI was clean showed no difference from the MRI taken around the time of his extension. He is likely to begin a throwing program starting Monday says Torey Lovullo.
— Jody Jackson (@Jody_Jackson) May 3, 2025
Arizona Diamondbacks’ week ahead features home series against a pair of NL monsters
Two Diamondbacks Sluggers Named to MLB’s Team of the Month
Other Baseball
Pirates fan is awake and alert, but ‘still has a long road ahead’ after 21-foot fall at PNC Park, per family
Twins’ Kody Clemens, son of Roger Clemens, homers at Fenway
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/44985790/twins-kody-clemens-son-roger-clemens-homers-fenway
Stowers’ ‘surreal’ slam propels Marlins to riveting walk-off victory
https://www.mlb.com/news/kyle-stowers-hits-walk-off-grand-slam-in-marlins-victory
Kyle Stowers off 101.7 mph!
That’s the fastest pitch a Marlins player has homered off of under pitch tracking (2008) https://t.co/bfcBnrW9O7
— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) May 3, 2025
ex dbacks on the move
Phillies Moving Taijuan Walker To Bullpen
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/05/phillies-moving-taijuan-walker-to-bullpen.html
Angels Select Touki Toussaint
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/05/angels-select-touki-toussaint.html
Anything Goes
This day in history:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-4
This day in baseball:
1966 – Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants establishes a new National League record for most career home runs when he hits his 512th, surpassing the total of former New York Giants great Mel Ott. Mays’ blast against Claude Osteen, which puts him fourth on the all-time list, helps the Giants beat the Dodgers, 6 – 1.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/May_4
Crushed vitamins have been used for cocaine scenes in movies.
For The Wolf of Wall Street, the actors inhaled crushed B vitamins in cocaine-snorting scenes. In fact, after so much inhaling, Jonah Hill contracted bronchitis and had to be hospitalized.
Mice typically only live for 6 months in the wild.
This is mainly due to the number of predators that eat them. However, if they are kept as pets, their life span increases significantly by two years.
Sweden has the most islands of any country.
With 221,800 islands, Sweden is believed to have more islands than any country in the world. However, only 1,000 of them are inhabited.
