Today’s Lineups
Our first visit of the year to San Francisco, and we’re hoping it goes as well as the last time the D-backs faced the Giants. You probably remember, considering it was the dim and distant depths of… last week. Arizona swept San Francisco handily, outscoring them by a margin of 23-8 across the three games. But like most teams, the Giants have been harder to beat on their own turf. They have gone 12-13 at Oracle Park, as opposed to 10-18 on the road. So I’d be perfectly fine with Arizona taking two of three. That’d give the team a 10-3 record across two weeks of games against divisional rivals (albeit the bottom of the barrel), and you can’t argue with that.
Merrill Kelly will seek to post a fourth straight quality start. Though to be fair, those games were against the three worst teams in the league, in the Mets, Rockies and Giants. It did include our first complete game at Coors in a very long time, which is no mean feat. Merrill held the Giants to three runs over six innings in a 6-3 victory last time out, scattering eight hits and no walks with four strikeouts. Kinda meh, considering the Giants offense. They did scored 18 runs against the White Sox on Saturday and Sunday. But they scored 16 against the Athletics on Saturday and Sunday before coming to Chase Field, and that didn’t help them there, did it?
Bit of an odd start time. I get the day game on a Monday thing, with it being a holiday, but 2:05 pm is a bit odd, especially since I don’t believe it’s a national broadcast or anything. Oh, well. I’ll have to convince Mrs. S to delay the barbecuing until after I get the recap posted. I’ve been on good form of late: haven’t had a losing Monday recap since April 13. Admittedly a slew of off-days helped! But my last two recaps were victories in completely opposite ways: one was 1-0, while the other was a 12-2 win, our biggest margin of the season. I think I prefer the latter: always nice to start work on the recap in the fourth inning!
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