Team News
Can Diamondbacks’ Brandon Pfaadt Overcome this Brutal Challenge?
Marte bolsters All-Star credentials with 4-hit game
“Covers it all — inside, outside, low, up — somehow gets to everything,” said Rockies starter Carson Palmquist, who gave up both of Marte’s doubles.
https://www.mlb.com/dbacks/news/ketel-marte-s-4-hit-game-helps-d-backs-win-series-vs-rockies
‘I’m a little bit important’: Diamondbacks find boost from injured infielder — and Suarez
Said Perdomo: “I told him (Lovullo), ‘When I can’t play, that’s the day you can take me out of the lineup.’ But for right now, I feel like I can play with this. I’ve got to deal with it. It sucks because I feel like it’s been hurting my performance a little bit because I feel like I can’t get comfortable hitting. But it’s all right. I’m going to figure out a way to get back.
D-backs Offense, Bullpen Back Merrill Kelly’s Quality Start
D-backs Manager Gives Health Updates on Corbin Carroll and A.J. Puk
Diamondbacks’ season-ending pitching injuries piling up
“ J-Mart and A.J. going down is not exactly what we envisioned when we felt we had a good bullpen,” general manager Mike Hazen told Arizona Sports’ Wolf & Luke on Wednesday. “But that’s an excuse and injuries are no excuse in this job. Zero. Everyone has them.”
“We’re not the only team,” Lovullo said last weekend. “We are definitely not the only team, and I don’t want anybody to feel sorry for us. We don’t live in that space.”
https://arizonasports.com/mlb/arizona-diamondbacks/pitching-injury/3587691/
ESPN Ranks Diamondbacks’ Lineup Among MLB’s Elite
Other Baseball
10 intriguing trade candidates from teams on playoff bubble
https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-trade-deadline-2025-trade-candidates-on-playoff-bubble-teams
Schmidt flirts with no-no, throws 7 hitless frames in Yanks’ romp
https://www.mlb.com/news/clarke-schmidt-anthony-volpe-yankees-beat-orioles
Feeling like his old self, Walker trying to ‘chip away’ after tough start
https://www.mlb.com/astros/news/christian-walker-looking-to-turn-his-2025-around
Remarkable Raleigh’s 30th HR sets first-half record for switch-hitters
MLB investigating abuse allegations against Giants’ Hjelle
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45557514/mlb-investigating-abuse-allegations-giants-hjelle
Braves Place Chris Sale On 15-Day IL With Ribcage Fracture
Orioles Place Adley Rutschman On 10-Day Injured List
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/06/orioles-place-adley-rutschman-on-10-day-injured-list.html
Anything Goes
This day in history:
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Paint used to be kept in pig bladders.
In the 19th century, pig bladders were used to store an artist’s paint. The organ would be sealed with a string and pricked to get the paint out. Because it would often break open, the American painter John G. Rand eventually made paint tubes from tin and screw cap.
90% of the Earth’s organisms are insects.
Out of the estimated 1.5 million species of organisms on the planet, insects take up ⅔ of that amount.
During World War I, the French built a “fake Paris.” Complete with a duplicate Champs-Elysées and Gard Du Nord, this “fake Paris” was built by the French towards the end of WWI. It was built as a means of throwing off German bomber and fighter pilots flying over French skies.
