Team News
Coming into today, the D-backs had three of the top six OPS in the NL since the break, in Marte, Suarez and Carroll.
The trio are 4-for-4 and have hit for the cycle so far today.
— AZ SnakePit (@AZSnakepit) September 11, 2024
I saved this into my SBs early in the game. I’ll just leave it there, though. Suarez and Marte would both finish a triple away from the cycle and we tied a franchise record with 13 extra base hits. The Dbacks did that against the Dodgers 5/17/2014. Per a comment in yesterday’s GDT, the run differential is over 100 for the first time this year.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ARI/ARI201405170.shtml
Arizona Diamondbacks blast off against Rangers, but Merrill Kelly exits early with injury
D-backs don’t miss a beat after Kelly exits early due to apparent injury
https://www.mlb.com/dbacks/news/merrill-kelly-exits-early-in-d-backs-win-over-rangers
Arizona Diamondbacks blast off against Rangers, but Merrill Kelly exits early with injury
“That’s definitely the overwhelming feeling more than anything,” Kelly said. “At this point it’s just kind of the beat-your-head-against-the-wall type feeling. We’ve obviously tried all kinds of things and for it to be popping up again is obviously just frustrating.”
Merrill Kelly Pulled from Start Due to Hamstring Cramping
Eugenio Suarez hits 2 homers, Diamondbacks tie club record for extra-base hits vs. Rangers
https://arizonasports.com/story/3557827/d-backs-extra-base-hits-rangers/
Diamondbacks reshuffle weekend rotation vs. Brewers, move Zac Gallen up
https://arizonasports.com/story/3557792/d-backs-zac-gallen-brewers/
“Defense is a gift that I have”: Luis Guillorme’s Game-Changing Glove
“I worked as hard as I could to make [my defense] as good as it is now,” Guillorme told Diamondbacks ON SI’s Jack Sommers. “Everybody has their limits on what the best they can be is at certain things. In my life I am never going to be Miguel Cabrera or Albert Pujols. It is what it is,” he said jokingly, “but for me on defense, it is a gift that I have got, and I’ve worked hard to get it as good as it is now.”
this year, the D-backs have set single-game franchise records for:
– margin of victory: +17, 7/30
– hits in a 9-inning game: 22, 4/19…and then tied on 7/30AND tied their XBH record with 13 today (also 5/17/14) https://t.co/3IxAUFbo1l
— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) September 11, 2024
Other Baseball
Through 147 games, the Chicago White Sox have a record of 33-114. The 1962 Mets had a record of 36-110, with one tie. The 1962 Mets are 3 games ahead. (just looking at wins)
Uceta (2 games), Cash (1) suspended for HBP of Castellanos
https://www.mlb.com/rays/news/edwin-uceta-kevin-cash-suspended
Rays’ Edwin Uceta Suspended Two Games
Uceta entered last night’s game in the eighth inning with two men on base and one out in what was then a 4-4 tie. He promptly yielded a two-run double to outfielder Cal Stevenson, struck out catcher Garrett Stubbs, allowed an RBI single to infielder Buddy Kennedy and then served up a two-run homer to Trea Turner. Bryce Harper followed with a double. Uceta then hit Castellanos on the hip with a 96.2 mph sinker on the first pitch of the next plate appearance, prompting both benches to clear (video link). Castellanos and Harper, in particular, were animated with their anger and what they clearly believed to be intent behind the pitch.
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/09/rays-edwin-uceta-suspended-three-games.html
Hey, Uceta, try not sucking?
3 outs from being no-hit, Mets stage epic rally sparked by Lindor
https://www.mlb.com/mets/news/mets-rally-in-9th-inning-for-win-after-nearly-getting-no-hit
The Mets’ 6 runs are the most 9th inning runs scored by a team who did not have any hits through 8 innings in the expansion era (since 1961)
prior most: 5 runs by the Athletics on 7/15/1974 at Orioles
h/t @EliasSports https://t.co/eWppowio0A
— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) September 11, 2024
Bowden Francis is the only pitcher with multiple no-hit bids of 8+ innings within his first 11 career starts in the majors, in at least the expansion era (since 1961)
h/t @EliasSports + @Spokes_Murphy
— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) September 11, 2024
Tyler O’Neill hits 3-run homer in the 10th inning to lift the Red Sox past the Orioles, 5-3
https://sports.yahoo.com/tyler-o-neill-hits-3-022958421.html
October preview? Royals just shy of crucial series win in Bronx
https://www.mlb.com/royals/news/bobby-witt-jr-cole-ragans-unable-to-save-royals-vs-yankees
Soto’s inspiring HR, Jazz’s walk-off hit lift Yanks to thrilling win
https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/juan-soto-fouls-ball-off-foot-then-homers?t=extra-innings-coverage
we are so lucky to witness Juan Soto https://t.co/9jUHpFLrAo
— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) September 12, 2024
Anything Goes
This day in history:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/day/september-12
This day in baseball:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/September_12
The oceans contain 200,000 different kinds of viruses.
Dive deep into this next fun fact: Marine viruses have been found in the ocean from the surface down to 4,000m deep and from the North to the South Pole. Most of these viruses are harmless to humans. However, they can infect marine life such as whales and crustaceans.
In 1644, English statesman Oliver Cromwell banned the eating of pie. He declared it a pagan form of pleasure. For 16 years, pie eating and making went underground until the Restoration leaders lifted the ban on pie in 1660.
