We don’t often talk about “trap games” – games against a weaker opponent that a team might overlook because of the ones immediately preceding or following it – in baseball the way we might in college basketball or football. Between the inherent variability from game to game, the sheer volume of games in a season, and the relative parity across the league, it’s hard to have “trap games” or even trap series in the sport. But if there were going to be a trap game or series for the D-Backs, it would have been this one. They’re coming off consecutive series against two high-powered divisional rivals and at the end of a season-long homestand of…
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