AZ Snake Pit 6 hours ago
Snake Pit Sim Season: Off-Day Update
The penultimate update of the simulated 2020 regular season. Team Record: 83-76, 2nd in NL West, 2nd in Wild Card standings The B.L.U.F.: The Diamondbacks remain masters of their own fate, but with zero margin for error. As the previous update was only three days ago, this one will be quite brief. Since we last checked in on the simulated season, the Virtual Diamondbacks have played two games against the San Francisco Giants. They split that two-game series. In that same span, the Padres have not lost. That means, the Diamondbacks now have a magic number of three, with three games...
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D-Backs want to see Eduardo Escobar drop weight this winter
Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo believes third baseman Eduardo Escobar put on too much weight this year.
AZ Snake Pit 11 hours ago
Arizona Diamondbacks release 2020 instructional league roster
Photo by Jill Weisleder/MLB Photos via Heading into the fall, Arizona’s instructs roster is filled with intriguing prospects The Arizona Diamondbacks released their instructional league roster for the fall, and it’s filled with plenty of top prospects. Due to the cancellation of the Arizona Fall League, MLB teams will have an instructional league to groom its young prospects. Prospects added to the roster gives them a chance to focuson their skills and strengths during the final months of the season. Arizona has built one of the most tantalizing farm systems in baseball, and...
AZ Snake Pit 16 hours ago
Snake Bytes 9/24: Sweep ‘em out of Town
Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports The Diamondbacks end the Texas Rangers and Wyatt breaks out Diamondbacks News: Wyatt Mathisen’s 1st 2 MLB HR’s fuel D-backs win Mathisen was 2 for 18 coming into yesterday’s game. “It felt great, obviously,” Mathisen said. “It’s a dream come true to hit home runs in the big leagues. It was awesome. I just wanted to get the barrel on the ball. That’s been my main focus. The first thing I felt was it get on the barrel and I was like, ‘Great, that’s a good start.’ And then I saw where it was and was like, ‘It’s got a shot.’ It...
Nick Piecoro / rssfeeds.azcentral.com Sep 23, 2020 
Diamondbacks sweep Rangers, but how will that impact draft position?
Arizona rallies to take second in a row against Texas. That could impact how high team picks in next draft.
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Diamondbacks-Rangers at Chase Field, Sept. 23, 2020
Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Texas Rangers, Sept. 23, 2020.
AZ Snake Pit Sep 23, 2020
Arizona Diamondbacks 7, Texas Rangers 3: Weird. Grateful. Disappointed. Relieved. 2020.
Photo by Norm Hall/ Many emotions. What an absolutely bizarre season and year. I could have never imagined any of this would have taken place as I walked through Chase Field during Fan Fest in February. The fact that was the only time this year I set foot in the stadium is somewhat difficult to comprehend. The last time that I did not attend a game in person, heck Opening Day, was 2002 when I lived in New Jersey as a kid. Regardless, I’m grateful to have experienced the misery with the entirety of this community. It hasn’t been a complete loss admittedly. The discussions here have...
AZ Snake Pit Sep 23, 2020
Preview #56: 9/23 vs. Rangers
Photo by Christian Petersen/ If last night’s win felt uncommon, that’s because it was. Today's Lineups RANGERS DIAMONDBACKS Leody Taveras - CF Tim Locastro - LF Nick Solak - 2B Ketel Marte - DH Isiah Kiner-Falefa - 3B Christian Walker - 1B Joey Gallo - RF Eduardo Escobar - 2B Sam Huff - C Kole Calhoun - RF Willie Calhoun - DH Nick Ahmed - SS Anderson Tejeda - SS Carson Kelly - C Sherten Apostel - 1B Daulton Varsho - CF Eli White - LF Wyatt Mathisen - 3B Wes Benjamin - LHP Alex Young - LHP Yesterday’s 7-0 thumping of Texas was just Arizona’...
AZ Snake Pit Sep 23, 2020
Snake Bytes: 9/23 - Total Victory
Photo by Christian Petersen/ So, this is what it looks like when the team plays well on both sides. Diamondbacks News Texas 0, Arizona 7 Caleb Smith and Riley Smith combined to throw a shutout. Carson Kelly had a three-run home run. Eduardo Escobar even had multiple hits. This, combined with sloppy Texas defense, led to a fun, lopsided win for Arizona. The Smiths How soon is now? Or, how soon can we see these two pitch again? Things started off rough. Caleb Smith opened the game by walking the bases loaded. He then got out of the inning without allowing a score by getting the next...
AZ Snake Pit Sep 23, 2020
Diamondbacks 7, Texas 0: Hitting (?!) and Pitching (?!??) Carry the Day
Photo by Christian Petersen/ Honestly, it looked ugly at the very start, but our full team wound up doing the business. Emphatically. So usually when a Diamondbacks starter begins the game with a 4-pitch walk, follows it up with a 6-pitch walk, and then follows that up with an 8-pitch walk, you’re pretty much guaranteed to be reading a sad recap. Not tonight, though, as it happens, because baseball is deeply weird, and sometimes, very occasionally perhaps, magical things happen in a good way. The entire west coast has recently been on fire, glaciers in Antarctica are beginning to...
Nick Piecoro / rssfeeds.azcentral.com Sep 23, 2020 
Diamondbacks' bats come alive in romping win over Rangers
Carson Kelly had a three-run homer, Caleb Smith and Riley Smith combined to throw a six-hitter and the Arizona Diamondbacks rolled to a 7-0 victory over the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night.
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Photos: Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Texas Rangers
Photos: Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Texas Rangers
AZ Snake Pit Sep 22, 2020
Preview #55: 9/21 vs. Rangers
Photo by VCG A key series in Tankapalooza starts tonight Today's Lineups RANGERS DIAMONDBACKS Leody Taveras - CF Daulton Varsho - CF Nick Solak - DH Ketel Marte - 2B Isiah Kiner-Falefa - 3B Christian Walker - DH Joey Gallo - RF Kole Calhoun - RF Rougned Odor - 2B Eduardo Escobar - 3B Anderson Tejeda - SS David Peralta - LF Sam Huff - C Nick Ahmed - SS Sherten Apostel - 1B Pavin Smith - 1B Eli White - LF Carson Kelly - C Jordan Lyles - RHP Taylor Clarke - RHP In case you missed it in the Snake Bytes comments, signs indicate that 2021 draft order will...
