Arizona pitching stepped up. Lourdes Gurriel, Jr. found some pop for at least one night. The result was the Diamondbacks beating one of the very best teams in the Majors right now.
Diamondbacks News
Gallen Gives Snakes Exactly What They Needed
Seriously, if things about this season don’t change, the Yankees will have to be salivating over the prospect of Gallen pitching in New York next year (and maybe the Mets too). Meanwhile, Lourdes Gurriel Jr. might finally be heating up.
Corbin Burnes Receives Career First Cortisone Shot for Shoulder Inflammation
This is a glass half-empty/glass half-full situation. For the team though, this is not the way things were supposed to go for the largest contract ever handed to a player by the organization.
Why Fans Should Have Seen Pfaadt Meltdown Coming
I think most of us did. The key will be how well he bounces back in his next outing. I do have my doubts about the notion of Pfaadt becoming a bona fide frontline starter/ace though.
The Puzzling World of Diamondbacks Pre-game Preparations
Several Arizona Diamondbacks have taken to doing puzzles in their pregame downtime to cleanse the mind and to simply relax before the stresses of a game.
Well, would you look at that spiffy stat!
The only players this season in the 90th percentile or better in Statcast’s Batting Run Value, Baserunning Run Value, and Fielding Run Value metrics:
Corbin Carroll
Geraldo Perdomo pic.twitter.com/LxutGn6d32— MLB (@MLB) May 7, 2025
Other Baseball News
Skenes Drops to 0-4 Versus Cardinals
While Zac Gallen is destroying New York, it seems the Gateway to the West has emerged as early kryptonite to the young phenom, Paul Skenes.
Andrés Muñoz Is an Analytical Blind Spot
It’s always a bit fun when a single player can break an analytical curve so badly that a new subject for a dissertation emerges.
Giants Swat Historic 9-Run 11th Inning to Down Cubs – in Chicago
The nine runs are the most in an extra inning since the Angels scored nine in the 13th inning on Aug. 16, 2009. It is also the highest-scoring extra inning at Wrigley Field, surpassing the seven-run 10th by the New York Giants on June 18, 1921. This sort of thing was largely supposed to go away with the advent of the Manfred Man.
William Contreras Playing Through Fractured Finger
Brewers catcher William Contreras has seen his power output decline this season, and MLB.com’s Adam McCalvy reports that he’s been playing through a fracture in the middle finger on his catching hand “for some time.”
On Chasy Chases and Choosy Chases
As the name Chase becomes more popular in the sport, who is living up tot heir name?
What Lessons Struggling Orioles Can Take from Past Stacked Young Teams
The way this season is starting to evolve, the Diamondbacks may do ell to take note as well. With Gallen, Kelly, Suarez, Naylor, and Puk all slated to leave at the end of the season and only one of those players having any real likelihood of returning, the time is now for Arizona, as well as Baltimore.
Christian Yelich remembered that trips to the game are supposed to be fun
Christian Yelich is the MAN pic.twitter.com/EMYN6EE7hi
— Baseball King (@BasebaIlKing) May 4, 2025