The Dbacks 60th loss of the season proved to be a pretty painful one. On top of being the longest game of the 2025 season going 3 hours and 50 minutes, it also had all too many of the stereotypical elements of a 2025 loss. They squandered another solid start from Ryne Nelson with a bullpen meltdown, and the offense went 0-11 with RISP.
Ryne Nelson really had it working tonight as he managed to throw a season high 100 pitches going 5.2 innings allowing only 2 runs while striking out 8. Unfortunately Kyle Nelson was brought in to close out the 6th and wasn’t able to record a single out while walking 3 straight hitters. This forced one of the heros from last night in Andrew Hoffmann to get hot quickly in the bullpen and get the final out of the inning on minimal warmup pitches. I am sorry but there is not a reason why Kyle Nelson is on this team even with a down bullpen.
Lourdes Gurriel Jr was the hero of the offense tonight hitting 2 home runs highlighted by the home run off of the man the Padres traded their whole farm system for in Mason Miller. With 2 outs in the 8th inning, Lourdes turned around a 104 mph Mason Miller fastball for a game tying 2 run home run, the fastest pitch hit for a home run in the statcast era (since 2008). Really a great moment for this team and it set the table perfectly for a big win tonight to continue the teams 3 game winning streak, until it didn’t….
The Dbacks offense proceeded to squander opportunity after opportunity in the following innings highlighted by Corbin Carroll striking out with the winning run on 2nd base in the bottom of the 9th, and Lourdes grounding into a double play in the bottom of the 10th. As mentioned earlier, the Dbacks offense was 0-11with RISP tonight and you are just not going to win many games like that. Especially when it is the heart of your order that is squandering all of these opportunities. Carroll and Marte were a combined 0-9 tonight.
To end this post on a positive note, in the past 2 games the Dbacks have done their very best to make the biggest splash of the trade deadline look foolish. Between Mason Miller and JP Sears, the Dbacks put up 7 runs in 6 innings against the duo. I guess it just goes to show, baseball can be a fickel game and even more so when it comes to pitching.