POSTGAME: Pfaadt OUT DUELS Yamamoto, Moreno’s GRAND SLAM Secures Diamondbacks Win Over Dodgers

POSTGAME: Pfaadt OUT DUELS Yamamoto, Moreno’s GRAND SLAM Secures Diamondbacks Win Over Dodgers

Beat LA. Beat LA. Beat LA. Beat LA. Beat LA. Beat. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] ski here and welcome in to another edition of the PHNX Diamondback. back postgame show live right here in studio A from PHNX HQ. My name is Derek Montia, occasionally known as your mayor of PHNX. And I got my guy Kevin Thomas, occasionally known as large intimate on the ones and twos tonight. And we are all in very good moods because the Arizona Diamondbacks did our favorite thing and that is beat the Los Angeles Dodgers tonight by a score of 5 to three. Kevin, I think that deserves some bells. I think that deserve maybe a glocken spiel or two. I think uh it’s kind of a big it’s kind of a pig deal. The glocken spiels will come after the music. Yeah, it’s kind of a kind of a pig deal like my shirt says. But um Groundhog Mama says, “I hate that picture of FO.” Then do me a favor, find us any better picture of Brandon F because he looks like that in every single image on Getty. But of course, welcome in to the PHX Diamondback show. This show is brought to you by our friends at Bet 365 and Game Time. Of course, go use that code of phx365 when you sign up over at Bet365. Get yourself some bonus bets. Of course, you can use that code of PHNX over at Game Time. Save $20 on your first purchase over there. Welcome in. Love this uh love this chat. Love you guys. So great to see you guys here. Uh and also uh we better see all of those Dodgers fans that were in here last night talking all that. Uh you guys better be in here you cowards because your team got beat tonight by a score of five-3. And yes, let me tell you uh this was a big win for the Arizona Diamondbacks. They get their 20th win of the season. They improved to 20 and 18. Uh this was their first game of the year and it’s the first win of the year against a National League West opponent. So here we are on May 8th playing the Dodgers for the first time and man, what a great feeling that they were able to win. Uh pretty convincing fashion. Obviously some problems late with the bullpen. Things didn’t exactly go uh one Juan Mario’s way, but uh this was a pretty thorough victory for the Diamondbacks, especially leading into those late innings. We know this Dodgers team could put up seven runs at the drop of a hat. They’ve done so all year. So it didn’t feel like even a 5 to1 lead was safe. And of course, that 5 to1 lead was courtesy of one Gabrielle Moreno. Uh this guy had himself a night and it is a wonderful wonderful thing to see. We definitely we definitely uh love to see Gabby getting back on track. Uh it was his first three hit game of the year. Uh and Gabby Moreno, he was hitting the ball very hard tonight. The single that he hit in the second inning was his second hardest hit ball of the year until a little bit later when he hit a grand slam. Um his hardest ball uh of the year actually was a ground out, funny enough. But uh yes, Gabby Moreno in his next at bat for this team in the fourth inning uh with the bases loaded hit a grand slam for his first home run of the season. Uh it was also like I said Gabby’s first three game uh three hit game of the season and it just it feels great to see this team having this success. Um here is what Gabby Moreno had to say about the grand slam through our friend Alex his translator. All right Gabby, first home run of the season, a grand slam. Just tell us the emotion and feel behind that one. Grand slam. Feels good. Just been working on it every single day and today was today was a good day. Alex always summarizes those answers, doesn’t he? My Spanish speaking friends. But again, great great to see Gabby Moreno having this big night. We’ve said it time and time again. Obviously, if the Diamondbacks can get contributions from guys right now, not named Purdomo, not named Corbin Carroll, or even to his credit, Josh Naylor, you feel like this team has an excellent chance of winning any baseball game, especially on a night where Brandon F pitched as well as he did. Big game Brandon once again showed out for this team, especially against the Dodgers. And he had probably one of his biggest outings of the year. He went six and a thirds innings pitched and did not allow a single run. He gave up four hits. He gave up three walks and he struck out six. But we’ll get to the pitching here shortly. Of course, tonight, a lot of this was about the offense and what the offense was able to give the Arizona Diamondbacks. Uh here is what Tory Lavalo had to say in regards to this game and and the Diamondbacks finally playing what he considered to be a pretty clean game. Yeah, we talked about playing a pretty complete baseball game. That’s what it looks like for me. Um there of course there are some things we can tighten up. Every game is not played perfectly, but in the space and the areas that we like to live in, um with pitching and defense, we were fantastic. You um one defensive play after another. Brandon F just pounds his own, has a great game plan. Um goes goes, you know, six plus scoreless innings. It was just a fantastic outing and the day was started started with him getting everything under control. Um, we built an inning against very stubborn, tough pitcher um, who’s been dealing lately. And, um, you know, once you build it, you got to have you got to have the right guys come up. And Gabby with an unbelievable approach with a long line drive home run over the right center field wall. That tells you that your swing is tight. Um, you know, you don’t hit balls out there by accident. You don’t hit it that well opposite field against traffic like that. So, it was really nice to see him get off on the pitch that he was looking for and and do some damage on it. and then Cel with a with another solo home run. So, um offensively, I thought we impacted the baseball and built innings. Just a really nice win. So, those guys are in there enjoying it right now. Uh but we got we got, you know, another game tomorrow. We got a lot more to play. If we got to use any game as a reference point today is the one I want us to remember what this feels like because it didn’t come easy. We went out there and executed a very high level. Uh obviously, you know, again, we’ve talked about this. We we’ve said that the Diamondbacks need to play fairly flawless baseball in order to win, especially against a team like the Dodgers, and they did that tonight. This was, of course, uh the Diamondbacks uh this was the first series opening win versus the Dodgers since July 30th of 2021. And we’re going to get into some of these pitching numbers, too. But we got some crazy stuff from our guy, uh Alex over at Arizona Sports, 98.7. Um Oh, wait. Or Gambo, I don’t know. Gambo got mad because I credited Alex for the stat and Gambo said it was it was on him. So, he called me he called me names. But I love Gambo. I love those guys over there. And of course, it was a great night to be a Diamondbacks fan, especially watching this team uh get another have another two home run night so far this season. The Diamondbacks are 10 and four in games this season when they hit two run two home runs or more. That grand slam from Gabby Moreno. Uh that is our Sanderson Ford deep drive of the game. Obviously very important and based on the final score, Gabby’s home run, his grand slam was enough offense to win this game for the Diamondbacks. It was a 337 ft dinger with an exit vo of 105 mph. And in the next inning, that was followed up by Catel Marte, who quite frankly, Marte was spectacular on defense tonight. He made some incredible plays out there, even when his bat really wasn’t working. So far since returning from injury, Catel has been hitting uh just kind of uh not not really having a lot of success at the plate. A lot of his uh a lot of his hits have a negative launch angle, meaning he’s hitting them down into the ground, just not really getting a lot on his swing. But tonight he did. Um and he definitely made up for his lack of offense early on with some incredible plays. Made a fantastic double play. One of the best plays of the of the year so far uh to end the eighth inning and get the Snakes out of a jam there that Juan Mario put them in. And uh he hit his first home run of the season there in the fifth inning. And you guys are right. I heard you guys talking about it. But the stance, the staring down the home run, like it it’s it’s funny because there was a lot of predictions tonight. A lot of lot of predictions. Before we even went to the game, I had one our one and only Damon Dog telling me that Brandon F was going to shove tonight. He absolutely did that. And then prior to this home run, uh we had two I guess uh two two future seers here. uh next to me, Nick Pakoro down a little way when when Catel made an incredible grab uh there on a defensive play. Nick predicted that he was going to hit a rocket in his next at bat. And then while he was in the middle of his at bat, Jack Summers, our guy from Snakes territory with one Jesse Freriedman, just kind of looked at me and he made like a whistling sound. He’s like and he kind of did this thing like this. And then I proceeded to watch Catel Marte hit a home run in the exact same trajectory that Jack’s little finger went showing me. It was amazing. Um, probably the stupidest thing I’ve done in a while. Jack had game day up. And when Jack did that and then the home run went and Catel’s trotting around the bases, I found myself, Kevin, for a brief moment looking over at Jack’s computer to see if game day somehow told him the home run was going to happen before it did because I have no idea how he did that. But the man is incredible and so is Catel Marte. The man I was talking about, of course, is Jack Summers. But, uh, we got a we we got we got a little bit of a conflict. I know Candace isn’t going to be happy with this for sure, but uh we do have to give our King Snake to somebody tonight. And based on Brandon F telling me to do so, we are giving the King Snake to one Gabby Moreno. Gabby Moreno, his first three hit night of the season or first three hit game of the season, a grand slam, four RBI. Uh just really looked dialed in. And again, we’ve talked about those guys in the the five, six, seven hole for the Diamondbacks not really producing, not getting it done. And we’ve saw that today. We saw Gabby be the main driver here of this offense and we saw him have an incredible night. We also saw some key hits out of Gino who was one for three. Uh we also saw Josh Naylor go one for four. Nobody else really had a spectacular night besides Purdomo who was two for three again. And uh this team just got got the job done against the Dodgers. Offensively, probably still not, you know, probably not the best game offensively, but again, this is like we’re going to talk about here with the bullpen. Knights aren’t perfect. You don’t have your whole offense all click. You don’t go out there and score 15 runs against a pitcher like Yoshino Yamamoto. But the Diamondbacks had a game plan, and that game plan tonight was to kind of sit a little bit on the location and on the fastball from Yamamoto. And that definitely seemed to work out pretty well for this team. Uh we have uh Gabby here talking a little bit about uh his performance and if having two days off kind of impact him impacted uh tonight’s performance like to uh miss time with injuries. But do you think that the two days off kind of helped you reset and kind of get back into the groove and maybe get those three hits today? It was good for me. I mean, you know, just thankfully it was able to work out well today. Um, and here a little bit more from Tory Lavalo on that big double play that I was talking about from Catel Marte. Obviously, that eighth inning started to get away from them a bit, and that double play was phenomenal. It was reviewed and upheld. The reaction in the stadium was great. Here’s what Tori had to say about it. Sure. Um, you know, Marillo’s struggling a little bit there. Um, he’s a trusted reliever and and he ends up making a great lunging play and, you know, little things inside of this game that that are just so pleasing to a coach who’s watching a player um work on something. uh that particular play. I’ve seen Catel work on it. You know, he’s he’s talked to me specifically about jumping and throwing the ball overhand and then getting away from him. He drops to a low threequarter slot. This is a discussion we had in spring training. This is a discussion that we had in the first week of the season before he got hurt and then he went out there and did it. So, those are great moments between a player and a coach and then he goes out there and gets us out of a jam. So, the game was fantastic, but it had an extra scent to it when um extra spice to it when I watched it happen. So, it was a great play and we did that all day. Catel made a great hands play like at that line drive. That’s not easy. Guys were moving at a very fast pace today and that’s Dback baseball. Groundhog Mama in the chat said that someone said Yamamoto’s erra double tonight. What’s funny is you’re actually not wrong. Yamamoto has only given up four earned runs so far this season and he gave up four earned runs in the game. So, there you go. There is uh there there is definitely a doubling of his erra and it balloons up to 1.80 on the season. He still has the top erra in Major League Baseball with Kodai Sena who he just faced second in Major League Baseball. But this was a thorough win and again this Diamondback’s team uh they allowed Yamamoto to only go five innings. They get six hits against him. Uh to be honest, you got to tip your cap to the the Dodgers being able uh to throw in a single reliever and Jack Dryer, who kept the game scoreless after Yamamoto left. And honestly, set the Dodgers up for pretty good success in their bullpen uh going forward into uh tomorrow’s game. But Diamondbacks definitely need you guys out there because it was loud at Chase Field. There were a lot of Dodgers fans in attendance. And honestly, I don’t want to get off on a tangent that I got that the conversation or argument or whatever you want to call it with Damon. Damon argues and fights about everything and I love him for it, but uh he was particularly mad about this being essentially Dodger fan appreciation weekend at Chase Field. You have Japanese Heritage Night followed by Mexican Heritage Weekend and it’s all on a weekend where the Diamondbacks are facing a team that is very popular with both of those fan bases. And obviously, you know, there there’s there there’s that kind of look. Uh I will say one thing that I found more uh more infuriating was playing of the song California Love while the Dodgers were taking batting practice. I found that to be a bit egregious myself and maybe catering a little bit too much to the opposing team. Uh, however, I will say that if you want to silver lining this, we sent a whole lot of Dodgers fans home sad and hopefully we can continue to do it this weekend and just ruin it. Ruin all of it for him. Come on out, spend all of your money and then go home sad. Uh, but yes, uh, who says we have a Japanese heritage night? Yes, that was tonight. In fact, that’s exactly was the theme of tonight’s game. So, um, and yes, Mexican Heritage Weekend is absolutely for Dbacks fans, too. That was kind of the point I’m making. I will say one thing I think about this is that you know that the Chase Field is going to be filled with with people during a Dodgers series. So I I personally wouldn’t do bobblehead nights or any kind of theme nights over the course of a weekend, but I mean that was uh yeah, I mean that that’s it’s it’s also up to the teams to to do so and and whatever, right? I mean, I just think that, you know, planning things out in a way maybe marketing wise might make more sense to have it on a weekend where you have a team that’s maybe less uh less compelling, going to bring in less people. However, from that perspective, maybe fans don’t come out regardless of who the opponent is that they’re playing. Uh, and again, I also am one of those people that feel like uh if opposing fans want to come to Chase Field and spend their money, that’s not necessarily a bad thing for a stadium that isn’t necessarily that full. all the time, right? But yeah, it doesn’t feel great to go to any game at Chase Field and see the other team uh you know, the the other team’s fan base in such a high population in comparison. But I I give the Diamondbacks fans a lot of credit. They showed out tonight. The ch the cheers were loud. Uh they definitely got theirs in and uh yeah, they quieted the Diamondbacks a few times, right? So uh and then Transonic says, “The Diamondbacks Dodgers game on September 23rd is German Heritage Night.” So what does it mean? What does it mean? I don’t know. We’re just doing like I don’t know. I don’t know. I mean, you know, it’s it’s again, it’s the fact that that’s a very uh that’s a very popular international team. No matter what market you talk about, they’ve done a great job uh at at at kind of going out there and and making fans everywhere. But, uh I don’t know. I I think that this is one of those cases where sometimes a team needs to have a little bit tougher of an attitude towards especially a division rival. And uh yeah, I I wouldn’t completely disagree with Damon’s rants on Twitter, but I’ll also say much like a lot of things, I’ll take your money. I’ll happily take your money. So, um but anyway, moving on. We have more to talk about. And that more to talk about is Brandon F’s incredible night on the mound for the Diamondbacks. 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Uh, Piece of Yoshi wants to know, “Where is Damon to laugh at James Outman?” Oh, he was here doing that. I’m sure Kevin can attest to it, right? Yeah. No, he was. He actually was. Yeah. Yeah, he he was there. Uh, thank you, Derek Foster. Fellow Derek, who spells it correctly. He said, “Get yourself a bars hot dog.” Thank you. I will do such a thing. Maybe we could get Stephen to dox us again and send us some food. Uh, B says, “Oh, fought our glorious ace. Where do we begin?” I don’t know. I don’t know. We could talk about it quite a bit because fought was outstanding. Big game. Brandon showed up tonight against the Dodgers and outdooled Yamamoto, the best pitcher in in at least statistically in the National League and in all of baseball. He had a great mix of pitches tonight. And he used pretty much everything. And when I say that, I literally mean that. Do we have the pitch chart image? Uh we’ll see here that FO used 34% fast balls, 24% sweepers, 15% change up, 14% sinker, 12% curveball. And look at where these pitches landed. He kept his four seam fast ball up, kept that uh sinker low in the zone, kept the sweeper kind of there. Uh I mean, plenty of pitches in the zone, but man, he did a great job tonight with this pitch mix. This has been an incredible uh this was specifically an incredible game plan against this Dodgers team. Uh at times he, you know, was careful with these big hitters, but I think the one thing you saw from Brandon fought tonight was him not being scared to attack. And that’s what the s that’s that’s what the success was tonight. And that’s what everybody attributed Brandon’s success to tonight. He got uh 10 whiffs tonight. He kind of spread it around. There was two and one pretty much on everything. He had three on the sweeper. That was the most he had on one particular pitch. Uh, and he goes six and a third innings. He gives up four hits, zero earned runs. He walked three and struck out six. And I think that’s worthy of firing up the old Circle K strikeout tracker. Let’s get those six strikeouts on the board, Kevin. Please. Thank you. That makes me feel that makes me feel good. I know it’s I know it’s six. We’re going to light it up one of these days. Don’t worry. Gallon’s going to make Kevin’s life miserable one of these days with having to figure out uh how to add more than 10 strikeouts to that. But, uh, we have some more here from the clubhouse, including Brand, uh, Gabby here giving first his thoughts on Brandon F’s big night. Brandon said you were the star tonight, not only for the home run, but the game that you called for him. Um, what was working for you guys together tonight? Tremendous job from Brandon. I mean, everywhere his location was great. Everywhere I asked for the ball, the pitch was there. So, all credit to him. Another another quick translation there. Uh, but yeah, Gabby uh definitely got it was was mutual respect and love between Gabby and Brandon fought today. You know, Brandon credited Gabby for calling such a good game. Gabby credited Brandon for his game plan. Gabby said that he knew Brandon was locked in during the bullpen session before the game. He could see that he was throwing some really good stuff and of course it’s a big reason why uh you know tonight the Diamondbacks were able to hold off the Dodgers. We got some from we got some some words here from Brandon F. Uh here he is recapping his outing tonight and what was working well for him. And I think we had we had a lot of things working on both sides of the plate and we were able to use that um whether that be fast ball or any of the off speeds. So I think uh player of the game was Gabby uh not only behind the plate but with this grand slam set the tone for us and we were able to roll from there. Another theme of tonight was asking all the players about like facing the Los Angeles Dodgers, right? Nobody really wanted to play it up too much. Nobody wanted to give us too much. But Brandon kind of admitted to the fact that like yeah, like there there’s a little bit, as as our guy Jack Summers said, pep in their step when they play against a team like the Dodgers. Here’s what he had to say. Yeah, I think the I think we did that with the Phillies last time. We were a little too giddy up like you said and and I think we were able to to calm things down and and locate more today and and success was derived from it. Uh, and obviously I know I brought brought up him mixing his pitches well versus like rival teams, especially teams that see him a lot. Uh, and obviously it’s a good game plan, but you know, Brandon F has had outside of one outing an incredibly good season. And he’s been the Diamondback’s most consistent starting pitcher this year. In fact, when we talk about consistency, the Diamondbacks over the last three games just did something that they haven’t done since 2022. And this is where I was talking about earlier. Uh, this is my Alex Winer stat of the night, but then also Gambo wants to get in on credit on this one. So, credit to Alex and Gambo. But the Diamondbacks have not had three consecutive starts by starters, by starting pitchers where they went six and a3 innings or more together since 2022. This is the first time. And in fact, uh I believe one of those starts was Ryan Nelson’s major league debut was one of those three starts that uh had six and a third innings pitched or less. So uh this stretch right here, you know, this has been some of the Diamondback’s best starting pitching that they’ve received all year. And we’ve had flashes of it. We’ve seen them put together stretches of quality starts, but uh this has been the longest stretch that they’ve had of pitchers going out there and giving them more than six innings since 2022. And it just goes to show that this is uh uh this this starting rotation that we had a lot of questions about early on is starting starting to figure things out. They’re starting to settle down. They’re starting to settle in. And that’s not really anything new for FO because like I said, FO has been their most consistent pitcher this year, but it just really feels like the Diamondbacks are finding something now. Uh and and this starting rotation is starting to live up a little bit to to those expectations. Uh here’s what Brandon Fod had to say about mixing up his pitches when it comes to facing off against these rival teams. I think you can look at it two ways. You can look like they they know what you’re going to throw and and obviously we can we can reverse that and and know what works with them and when they come up to the to the plate and they have a good lineup and and they know our scout report on them. So sometimes you kind of got to mix it up and I think we did a good job with that today. Another thing he did well that I brought up earlier besides mixing up his pitches was how aggressive he was towards Dodger hitters, right? Like the Dodgers are very good. And I have a feeling that sometimes the approach that opposing pitchers have towards them might fall into their game plan, right? You have someone like Brandon Fod who goes out there and pitches a little fearless, pitches aggressively in the zone, and you see him have the success that he had tonight. And here’s Brandon talking about uh that that aggressive style of of I guess pitch calling. I think some those are some of our better games when we’re aggressive in zone. We’re able to get away with some stuff early in the game and go deeper into the game and and trust our defense. And that’s what we did today. Uh and I mean we’ve talked about this a lot. We’ve said that the Diamondbacks at times like there’s a lot of intrepidation. I don’t want to use the word scared, but it’s it’s it’s it’s lack of commitment, if you will. It’s it’s it’s this lack of aggression. It’s a lack of believing in yourself, confidence, right? You want to go out there with conviction and you want to believe that you can dominate the zone and you can make batters have to start swinging at your secondary stuff and swinging out stuff out outside of the zone, but you can’t do that until you establish your stuff in the zone, your command in the zone and that you are going going to go after them and you’re not going to run away from their bats, right? So Brandon Fox’s done that well in outings where Zack Gallon was confident and aggressive in his stuff. You see him pitch well. Uh, and Mel Kelly, I mean, again, outside of one bad start for Mel Kelly, this has been a season where you’ve seen Kelly be consistent and and again be aggressive towards the strike zone and that’s what has led to these guys getting things back on track. I don’t know. I mean, confidence is such a weird thing and baseball is such a weird game where the that that lack of confidence can have such a huge impact on you no matter if you’re a position player defensively, whether you’re a starter or a pitcher on the mound, even a reliever uh or again if you’re you’re at the at the bat uh at up at the dish. So, uh tonight though, Diamondbacks got the job done. And of course, part of it was that defense behind Brandon F. He credited that defense and here’s what he had to say about Catel and some of those amazing plays that were made behind him. The defense was great. I think Nak and center tracked down some some pretty hard hit balls and Catel turned a nice double play there at the end and I think everybody came to play today. That’s a great point. Everybody did come to play today. And again in the outfield, Corbin Carroll had an amazing play down the right field line. You had Alec tracking down a a huge making a huge catch there in center field. And again, Alec took a great route to that ball. He was taking great routes all night defensively. And uh a lot of the hard hit balls to the outfield were not actually even dangerous. What do you got, Kev? I also wanted to bring up I was extra impressed by that Alec Thomas catch because if you remember last game, there was a similar hit ball out to center at him, very similar to that one, and he did not read it correctly. Yeah. Uh, and so in the big moment, it was nice to see him actually like, you know, make that correctly. You know what’s funny about that play is that was the one I was talking about yesterday. It had an expected batting average of 960. That had a 96% chance of being a hit, right? So, I don’t know if I blame Alec for not getting that. This one might been a little different, maybe a little easier to catch. For the record, I’m not blaming Alec. I’m more so just saying like what Tori talks about how making the little plays and how things can just bounce your way when you put yourself in the right position to do that. It it was it was nice to see everybody against the Dodgers, against the number one team in the division, be on their P’s and Q’s and just be on point tonight. Yeah. And I mean, again, defensively, they have not been they have not been sound this year. They’ve made a lot of mistakes defensively. And I mean, again, there is uh that that was a spectacular play. There were a couple of plays that again, you you don’t make those plays. The Dodgers have guys on second and third that that inning changes on you really fast. Things go a different way, right? So, uh, credit to FO for never really getting, you know, shook even when he had guys, uh, runners in scoring position and, uh, they did limit the amount of opportunities the Dodgers had there. But, of course, late once again, things couldn’t be easy. The bullpen, uh, Jaylen Beaks had an impressive, uh, outing. I thought he had an impressive strikeout of Otani to end the seventh inning. He went two-thirds of an innings uh, inning pitch. He had two strikeouts, but then Juan Marillo made things interesting in the worst possible way there in the eighth inning. He allowed two earned runs. And of course, he also got into a position where I’m sure every Diamondbacks fan out there watching that game was thinking, “Here we go. Here, this is what’s going to happen, right? We we’ve had fun. We’ve enjoyed this game. We’ve pretty much led through 70% 80% of this game. Literally 80% because it was the eighth inning. maybe a little bit higher percentage of that. And then we get down to the end of the game and the Dodgers start scoring against this bullpen. Dodgers have notoriously been uh good at comebacks this season and putting up runs late and I think everybody was was seeing that, you know, go down that path. There was a lot of questions about whether Tory was going to change gears there uh with Juan kind of struggling. Uh and of course he did not make things easy for this team. Here’s what Tori had to say about uh leaving Marillo in there. Yeah. Um I was going to go to Ginkle and then Ginkle to Miller. Um Merilla’s been throwing the ball good. I felt like he deserved a chance to get out of that. He was starting to wobble a little bit. Um and look, I we’re we’re getting after Ginkle and Shelby quite a bit. So I did I’m trying to chop those guys up. They’ve been on the same day pattern. I wanted to throw one and not the other. That was the overall goal. Um but it came down to me trusting Marillo. has been throwing the ball really good for us and I felt like it got a little dicey there. Um if if Conforto hits the ball in the seats, it’s a totally different outcome, but I felt like we were going to make a pitch and we ended up doing that. Uh yes, Tanner, it is pronounced Morio. I don’t know if you heard me right before I cut, I did say, uh yeah, yep, yep, you guys got me. Uh and I I can’t even say like normally that this is a hate crime because Spanish is my first language. So, uh this one’s on me. That one’s on me. This isn’t a milk situation, but uh Diamondbacks of course do lock things down. Kevin Ginkle comes out for the ninth inning. Electric entrance, electric performance, and maybe, just maybe, Kevin Ginkle is the Diamondback’s answer to their closer situation. It still feels like Shelby Miller is going to be that. Uh don’t Sean, ban Shawn from the chat. Get Shawn out of here. Shawn’s done. Shawn is out of here forever. Don’t just ban him for one day. Ban him permanently from this chat. Um, but no, I mean, this was uh this this team is something else. And Kevin Ginkle again, it feels like he has electricity for that close to roll. He has the ability even when guys get on base that you feel very fairly comfortable with him getting out of it. And yeah, it was electric tonight. I mean, you’re going to give me a Kevin Gle scream in the ninth inning. I’ll love it. I’ll love it. I’ll take it. So, yes. Uh Kevin Ginkle again uh comes in, shuts things down, makes I mean he did give up the home run, right? So he did give up Otani a home run. There’s a little stat padding uh by Otani in Major League Baseball there late, but you just still got to feel pretty good about uh Kevin Gle in that role. But what’s new? Show Otani, you know, fixing the numbers. What’s new? Yeah. I also I I hate the fact that like Yeah, it I mean it just it doesn’t feel great. It does like the one thing I got out of Shelby Miller in his first save of the year was nothing. I got nothing out of it. I got no emotion. I didn’t feel anything. I was just the game just ended and I was like, “What was that?” I don’t know what a ninth inning with no drama and no action really is. Miller just came in and shut the game down. that wasn’t the case in his next opportunity at a save, but I still think that from what Tori said after the game, what we’re going to see is him as a manager hopefully utilizing these guys a bit better. And he said he’s going to get Ginkle and Miller away from each other. So that he’s going to have those guys available on different nights and has some of his best relievers available with some of the other ones who not not to take anything away from those guys, but some of them are like Juan Mo are young. You got, you know, Jose Castillo that I don’t know how much longer uh he is going to be a part of this bullpen or maybe they work out because he even though he has been bad at times, he still has had some pretty decent outings as well. Um but like just have a mix here where guys like Kevin Ginkle are available one night, Shelby Miller available another night. Ryan Thompson was a guy that he was going to possibly go to there, but the Diamondbacks get out of that inning there with with Catel Marte’s huge double play. And uh then the ninth inning comes around. Ginkle gives up that one home run. But overall, not much outside of that. And again, it’s Otani. So uh you know that MLB just needed that to happen. They needed something from Otani tonight. But Diamondbacks win again by a score of 5 to3. And we’re going to break down the numbers from this game on the other side of this break. So don’t you go anywhere. You are watching the PHNX Diamondback show. 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Well, this is going to be a little bit more fun, Kevin. Let’s take a look at the numbers from tonight’s game presented by our friends at Desert Financial. Of course, the Diamondbacks outscore the Dodgers 5 to3. Both teams had nine hits. Diamondbacks left a lot of ducks on the pond again or a lot of snakes in the desert. I don’t know. We need a snake metaphor for that. Then ducks on the pond. This isn’t We’re not We’re not foul. We’re We’re snakes. Uh one for seven with runners in scoring position. Dodgers were two for five. Diamondbacks had three extra base hits. Two of those were home runs. One was a double. Then the Dodgers had their two extra base hits. Uh expected batting average for the Dodgers was 335 to the Diamondbacks 301. So both teams were hitting the ball fairly well, fairly hard. a lot of hard exit vos. Uh, poor Michael Conforto hit into I think three of his outs were all hard hit balls. Three of his outs were all 95 miles per hour uh or or higher. I believe one of them was like 110 miles per hour off the bat. And you love to see it. You love to see him hitting into into an out when he hits the ball that hard. But this is important because we have been talking now for weeks and weeks and weeks about our division being the Nell West. And yeah, it is still the Nell West, but what we do have is an update on the NHL West. Kevin, what do we got? Got the Dodgers at 25 and 13. We got the Padres’s at 23 and 13. We have the Giants at 24 and 14. And we now have the Arizona Diamondbacks with 20 wins at 20 and 18. And yes, the Colorado Rockies are still alive and they still exist. Do they matter? That’s more of a philosophical question. And I’m not here to to wax philosophy, but what I will say is this is an incredibly difficult division. When you look across baseball, I believe there are 12 uh maybe 13 teams currently with losing records this year. Meanwhile, the NL West currently has four teams with 20 wins. Don’t know. Don’t know about that at all. Don’t know why this division continues to be tough. Again, it proves that there is a big it’s a it’s a it’s it’s it’s a big reason why these games are very important right now for the Diamondbacks. It’s a matter of keeping the Dodgers close and not allowing this division to slip away. There’s a good chance that maybe maybe the rest of this series doesn’t go the Diamondbacks way, but man, this was a great way to start it. And of course, right now, what they need to try to do is just keep things close, right? It’s it’s it’s going to come down to uh a lot of a lot of games being played later on in the season, but right now with how good the rest of the division is, you really just don’t want to let things slip away and start to get to a point where because the Diamondbacks have been guilty of this, they you you start to look at the scoreboard even though you’re not supposed to look at the scoreboard and you it starts to become demoralizing to the team that they’re so behind in the division. Um, you know, right now the Dodgers have a plus 51 run differential. The Padres’s have a plus 29 run differential. Giants have a plus 39 run differential. And the Diamondbacks are at plus five. What do the Rockies have? Uh, minus 109. Gross. Minus 109 run differential. Uh, that is the most significant run differential uh, as far as on the low end in all of baseball. And by quite a margin, too. I think the Orioles have a minus 69. Nice run differential. And uh yeah, that’s it. That’s the closest one. So, the Rockies have the the lead in in in dysfunctional uh run differential by 40 runs, and that’s definitely not good for them. But hey, at least we get to play them a whole lot. So, there’s that. Um and and it’s not going to be easy here with the rest of the teams that the Diamondbacks have to face, at least early in May. Like I said, there’s some reprieve there against the Pirates, uh and I think the Nationals later on in the month. And of course, you can’t underestimate those teams, or else they’ll do what the Nationals did to the Diamondbacks the last time they played. Uh, someone, who’s that? Ryoma in the chat wants to know what the White Sox run differential is. This is a fun game. It’s minus 39. Minus 39. And once again, the Colorado Rockies is minus 109. I probably shouldn’t laugh. Um, but I’m going to anyway. All right. Well, what we also have is some more updates here from our friends over at the Amarillo sod poodles. Um, only I’m not allowed to call them anymore that right now because they are the yellow city pig weeds. And I’m going to tell you why. Uh, we don’t have a break, but I did want to let you guys know, of course, that now is a great time to become a PHNX dieard if you haven’t done so already. We’re going to have some great exclusive content, including uh Damon and I are going to be recording a Dbacks after dark episode here uh probably on Monday after this Dodger series. And I’m going to let Damon go off about the Dodgers and uh some of his issues with Chase Field being so welcoming to our division rival. But you get access to the PHNX Discord lounge, which is the best place to be an Arizona sports fan. You get to chat with all of us day or night. You never know when I’m in there. I’m in there. I’m lurking at all times. I’m always watching. I’m always making sure you guys are behaving yourselves. And uh, of course, it’s a great it’s a great place to hang out with the fam. You also get a free shirt upon becoming a diehard. You get 20% off of our merch and 20% off of our event. So, of course, sign up today. Head over to gophnx.com and prove your fanhood by becoming a PHNX diehard right now. And I want to thank all of you guys that have already signed up for Die Hard. You guys are the best and I appreciate you guys of course for supporting this show, supporting this host. Of course, I’ve told you guys I’m not who I’m not a fan of. Not a fan. Um, but I do appreciate you guys doing all that. Now, the other day I did not give the Emerald Lad Poodles the flowers that they deserve for sending me out this wonderful merch that I’m wearing right now. And mostly it was because of my confusion. First, I had no idea what they were going to be sending me or what was in the box. And then second, when I pulled it out, there was no information uh accompanying this rad merchandise for me to understand exactly what any of it meant. But I did come to research it. I did come to find out, dig in a little bit, and I I come to find out that the Amarillo Assad Poodles new identity for 2025 or alternate identity is the yellow city pig weeds. And of course, yellow city is kind of an affectionate term for Amarillo. It uh references the iconic yellow soil and wild flowers that kind of blanket the Amarillo area in spring. And then uh and the new identity deepens to the connection to their beautiful landscape. So that’s that part. And it also brings attention to the pig weed plant, which is a a plant. Um it’s not marijuana, I found out, which I very much thought it was. Uh, but it’s a distinctive distinctive species found in the Texas panhandle and it transforms into a tumble weed. Uh, and that’s what’s chasing this guy around on my hat. So, uh, that’s kind of this whole thing. The, uh, new identity honors Amarillo’s environmental richness, and it couldn’t be more different from their previous identity, which made me giggle every time we talked about it because it was the calf fries, which are fried bull balls, which they sell at their stadium in Hodgetown. So, um, it more couldn’t be more of a vibe change from the CF fries. Could not be more of a vibe change, but I appreciate it. I’m with it. And, um, Brandon Chips says, “Looks like weed though, for sure.” It kind of does. It kind of does. Well, um, one thing right now that’s going very well for the Amarillo sod poodles is one Lou James Groover, formerly known as Gino Groover. Uh, he’s been having himself quite the year so far for the sod poodles. Uh he is currently hitting 300 364 with a 580 slug. He has a 944 OPS. Seven home runs, 16 RBI this season. Another really fun story going on with the Sod Poodles, Christian Christian Robinson. Uh Christian Robinson is playing for the Sod Poodles and he’s been having himself a fairly outstanding season so far as well. and 97 at bats. He has a 289 batting average with a 415 on base percentage, a 577 slug, and a 992 OPS. He has six home runs and 18 RBI. Uh he’s got lots of extra base hits. He’s got 14 extra base hits this year. 21 walks to 37 strikeouts. And I mean, again, you talk about incredible stories. The Diamondbacks have a few within their minor league organization. Trey Mancini is an incredible story waiting to happen. But after everything that Christian Robinson has been through, it is just great to see him putting up these kind of numbers. I don’t know if this is going to translate over to him, you know, getting back to a point where he could be on the major league club, but like Ernesto Eser Ernesto says right here in the chat, he says, “I’m here for the K- Rob redemption story.” Me too. Me too. Um, good stuff. On the bad end, uh the the Hispanic Titanic himself, Ivan Melendez, is only hitting 186 with a 255 on base percentage and a 419 slug. So, he’s not having a great season so far. Uh Tommy Troy, though, another name people are very familiar with, potentially a future second baseman for this team. He’s been having a great season as well. He’s currently hitting .305, 438. He has a 419 slugging percentage and he has a 857 OPS. So again, uh, good contributions from some names that Diamondbacks fans recognize and these are guys that, uh, that, yeah, definitely could end up being, uh, being big for this team in the future. Still just at the DA level, so still some work to do, but uh, human Lynn, he’s up in Reno, and that’s something that of course makes us very excited around here. We are big uh, we are big human fans on this podcast. But another person who we are a huge fan of. Uh I could probably throw shade at Espo for this today, Kevin. I mean I like I feel like I should deep down inside. Um but uh we had one Sierra Santos in studio today. Uh she was here in her Serpientes jersey. If you are not familiar with Sierra Santos, she’s MLB Network host. She was also uh a big part of the Diamondbacks video. In fact, she narrated the Diamondbacks launch video for their new City Connect jersey. So, it was an absolute thrill to see her. Uh we’re we’re old friends from the Diamondbacks press box. She used to work right here in town at Fox 10. And Espo had an amazing interview with her. I think it’s for Southwest Bias. I don’t know. Maybe it’s just maybe it was just to spite me. I know there was some discussion about it wasn’t a good idea to let me talk to her, which I kind of I kind of take exception to just a little bit. Kevin, what are your thoughts on that? Was that for the best? Was it Did you guys discuss this as a group to not let me talk to her? No. In fact, I was arguing with the our guy Damon Dog. Uh because apparently she arrived like 10 minutes after I left. And so I felt like as a friend of mine, he should have let me know that. Yeah. Yeah. You would have come back. So you and I were kind of in the same boat of being left out. Not really. I I I much rather feel like I deserve an interview with uh one Sierra Santos. But good news is she’s going to be joining us on this show hopefully next week or the week following that. We got a little preview though from uh her interview with Espo. And the first thing it here is her talking about I believe it’s the first time that she saw the Serpientest jersey. Is that right? Or uh this is on keeping the City Connect jersey secret actually. And uh we we both kind of went through a very similar thing. This is what she had to say about trying to keep the secret of the new City Connect jersey when they were developing the concept behind it and showing me, you know, this is what we’re thinking and the the vignettes and the montages, all that to when they finally sent me the the mockup for the jersey. I I see, look, I just got chills and it was embargoed. They’re like, “You can’t share this with anyone.” And I’m like, “How?” Like I it was so it was it was the hardest secret I’ve ever kept. I can’t agree with her more. And Kevin Kevin knows I struggled with this. You guys know I didn’t even do a good job at keeping the secret. I let out way too much information before the actual jersey was dropped. But yeah, sometimes when you see something as beautiful as a Serpient jersey, like one one thing I will say is the mockup that she’s talking about I also saw and it didn’t do the jersey justice. like seeing the little flat two-dimensional image of the jersey does not do the jersey justice, especially when you see it uh in the team shop or on somebody. It’s absolutely gorgeous. Uh obviously it’s gorgeous on Sierra, but uh she had a fun promo that you guys got to see where they recorded her out on the mound and they had like the purple lights and uh she had a very funny story about uh the timing on that. Here’s what she had to say about them trying to get the lights right with that uh that introductory promo. So I that the whole lights thing that wasn’t scripted that was improvd like we they had that idea as we’re on the mound. So, it wasn’t it was just planning to be uh darkened lights uh just me illuminated on the mound and then somebody had the idea to all of a sudden shoot the studio lights or shoot the um stadium lights on as I was saying it. And so, I’ll give you Hold on. Let me see. Oh, I don’t know where my phone is. So, like somebody’s literally on the phone like trying to cue them because it takes a second when the when the lights switch on. So he’s like he’s as soon as they hit like a keyword he’s like go go go go into the phone and then they switch lights. It took it took maybe it took a lot of tries. I don’t want to say it to I mean it was like six or seven. They’re like we’re so sorry. I’m like dude I’m here all day like you’re fine. Well you will get more of that on Southwest Bio bias. Uh I don’t know. I wasn’t even I wasn’t listen I was lost there. Um I’m I’m back. I I’ll try to get this together, but don’t miss out on that episode with Southwest Bias with Espo and one Sierra Santos. And again, uh she is a huge Diamondbacks fan. She’s thrilled to see this team doing the things that they’re doing. And of course, uh so are we all. Another fun thing was she told me today that her uh favorite baseball player of all time was Randy Johnson. And of course, as many of you saw on the broadcast tonight, Randy Johnson was there. He was in the uh in the broadcast booth giving some amazing commentary. Uh he proceeded to talk about all the times he struck out 20 or 19 guys and either got a loss or no decision, which if you were around in those days, that happened a lot around here. You talk about you talk about this offense being inconsistent. Now, boy, let me talk to you about the days that Randy Johnson used to get one run of support in a two-run game. Uh those were some days. But hey, great stuff. And of course, make sure not to miss that. Uh, and of course, the ending of my story here is that Sierra did get to meet Randy Johnson today, and I did ensure I I asked and made sure he was nice, and he was. So, of course, uh, shout out to making people’s dreams happen, right? It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been uh, in a game like this, you still have favorite people that you never got a chance to meet, and it’s always great to get a chance, especially someone like Randy Johnson. Uh I I I’ll never forget how excited Brian Danielson aka Daniel Bryan was uh here at Chase Field when he was the WWE champion to beat Randy Johnson. That was literally all he wanted to do. He was a Seattle kid and he was like, “Can I meet Randy Johnson?” Like, “Let’s make that happen.” So, uh Randy of course always making people’s dreams come true, but uh this was a big win for the Diamondbacks. A great step in the right direction here for this four game series. uh huge three more game series this weekend. Make sure you guys get out to Chase Field. Support this team. They need you out there. They need Diamondbacks fans here. Uh and of course, they need uh you guys to be louder than the Dodgers fans. Do we have any super chats or anything else I missed here? Oh, yes, we do. All right, what do we got? Oh, yeah. Stephen Bananas says the Dodgers. That’s the best I can do. I miss the days of being able to curse on this show, Kevin. I really, really do. Um, I think there was something from JA a little while back if you could find it. I think he had a question. I was going to uh acknowledge it, but uh I don’t remember what he said. So, if you can find that, Kevin, I’d appreciate it. But, of course, we appreciate you guys so much for being here, for supporting this team, and just for being awesome in general. I appreciate you guys. Like I said, this uh this is a fun time. I haven’t seen the the um team shop this busy in a very long time. I don’t think that there was any point uh this evening where you could go into the team shop and actually not be wondering if uh if a line if there was there was a long line. Uh he was asking about I think he was asking about Mark Grace. I believe that was his question. Um somebody asked about Mark Grace because they said that they hadn’t seen Mark Grace on the broadcast in a while. And it’s funny because I actually saw there. There it is. That was the question I wanted to get to. Jay asked, “Is Mark Grace okay? I know he had a few days off a few weeks ago and during the post game seemed to stumble a bit. I hope nothing is wrong there. Anywhere hear anything?” Um, I saw him tonight. I went over and it was one of my first times seeing Mark this season. So, I went over and said hi and he was great. So, I don’t I think he’s all good. But again, uh I was I think he was on the pregame show. I think I saw him on the pregame show a little bit. But, uh yeah. No, I I I’m fill you on this. There’s some There’s some people missing. There’s some things. Got to give a shout out while I can to our guy Steve Zinsmeister. Uh Steve is my former co-host over at Arizona Sports 98.7. We did Ain’t No Fang together. And I just have to wish him and his wife Danielle just absolute best. Congratulations on their new little baby girl. So, if you’ve missed Steve on the pregame and postgame show, it’s because Steve is a new father uh to a perfect little angel and it’s gonna change his life forever and I’m so happy for him. So, uh he’s going to take some time off, but he will be back soon. For the meantime, we got our guy Luke over there, Luke Leinsky over there doing uh pregame and postgame and he’s been doing a great job. So, again, don’t miss any of that action. Most importantly, do not miss getting out to Chase Field this weekend. It’s going to hit differently. Uh AZ Catch G, thank you so much for your super chat. He says, “Good seeing Kevin. BTFD Ginkle on the mound. Let’s go, baby.” Uh, I’m not doing that last part. Kevin, you want to do that last part? Oh, yeah. Bear down. Okay, there you go. Uh, and Bees says, “Uh, that FERS pack hits different.” Yes, it does, Bees. Yes, it does. I don’t know why it’s just so satisfying to beat the Dodgers. Um, and again, that might be a little bit of that little brother, big brother syndrome, but who cares? I don’t care. Do you care? No, we’re just happy. It’s a great night. Enjoy your night. Make sure you guys enjoy uh this win because going to have to do it again tomorrow. Until then, we hope you guys have a wonderful evening. Uh we have no show tomorrow. I know you might be a little bit disappointed by that, but I am taking a three-day weekend. Kevin has been putting in a tremendous amount of work around here at PHNX. Uh so, he’s going to get some well-deserved time off as well. So, we will be back on Monday with another Mailbag Monday show. I might pop in and do a quick like 10-minute recap after some of these games. Maybe on Twitter, maybe on the actual website, but uh of course I’m I’m just gonna go sleep a lot is what I’m going to go do. I’m also going to watch these games and I hope you do the same. Make sure you’re cheering for this Diamondbacks team. But uh yeah, I do you Ry was right. We’re taking a night off on City Connect jersey debut. We’ve been putting in a lot of City Connect work around here, so it’s kind of kind of it. But yes, Stephen, I’m taking a three-day weekend and it’s against the Dodgers and I’m going to enjoy myself. Maybe you guys should do the same. Uh, but make sure you go out and see some baseball. Uh, make sure you also follow us on Twitter. I am at cap_caveman with a K. Kevin is at Kevo Post. Our show is at PHNX_Dbacks. But as always, all all roads lead to phnx_ports on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. We appreciate you guys so much. Kevin, what I don’t know how much time how much time we have left here, Kevin. We got like 55 seconds in counting. All right, we got we do we have anything else? Uh Jag, I I wanted to ask you a question because last night we had people in this very chat, some of you who may still even be here who said Catel washed. Catel has no offense. Catel can’t do this. They said Gabby was no good. Catel, he came back from injury. Now he’s old. Y What happened? What happened? Catel Marte had an absolute bomb. An absolute bomb on Yamamoto’s head. What happened is hits the stance. You let the snakes get hot and everybody’s cheering. I thought he was washed, folks. Shouldn’t let the I thought he was washed. Don’t let the snakes get hot. Whatever you do, don’t let the snakes get hot. Of course, we will see you guys back here on Monday. Until then, we hope you have a wonderful weekend. We hope the Diamondbacks win lots of baseball games. I hope you behave yourselves, but I know you’re not going to. But most importantly, hope you have a wonderful evening and wonderful Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Uh, we’ll be back later. Uh, ban piece of Yoshi from the chat. Ban him, too. Sean’s gone. Um, Yoshi’s gone. Anyone else is gone. Uh, but yeah, love you guys. See you guys on Monday. Until then, uh, enjoy your weekend. And remember, kids, baseball is fun, but god damn it, it’s so much more fun when you beat the Dodgers. [Music] [Applause] [Music]

“Big Game” Brandon Pfaadt showed up for the Diamondbacks in their first game of the season against an NL West opponent, leading the way to a 5-2 win over the Dodgers on Thursday Night. We have more on Gabriel Moreno’s three-hit night that included a grand slam, Ketel Marte adding in his first home run of the season along with some incredible defense, and the D-backs getting on their best three game stretches from starting pitching since 2022. We also have some updates on the Amarillo Sod….er, the Yellow City Pigweeds and Siera Santos stopping by PHNX HQ.

Join Derek and Kevin for the PHNX Diamondbacks Postgame Show LIVE!

0:00 – BEAT LA
3:00 – Gabriel Moreno
7:30 – Deep drive of the game
10:45 – King Snake
12:00 – Ketel Marte’s double play
14:00 – The Dodgers fan take over Chase Field
21:00 – Brandon Pfaadt
25:00 – Stat of the night
39:00 – By the numbers / NL West update
43:00 – Sod Poodles / Yellow City Pig Weeds
46:18 – MiLB updates
48:10 – Siera Santos

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