{"id":142674,"date":"2025-06-30T21:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/142674\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T21:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:30:23","slug":"whats-been-the-biggest-arizona-sports-story-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/142674\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s been the biggest Arizona sports story this summer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a time when things slowed down in Arizona during the summer, but not anymore.<\/p>\n

That’s especially true when it comes to the Arizona sports scene, which keeps on humming even for those teams that are in the middle of a season.<\/p>\n

Fans have had plenty to cheer about, complain about and, here on azcentral.com and in The Arizona Republic, read about.<\/p>\n

\"Arizona<\/p>\n

Arizona Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo reacts after a bat flies out of the hands of James McCann (8) while at the plate against the Miami Marlins at Chase Field in Phoenix, on June 28, 2025.<\/p>\n

The Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> are enduring a season of ups and mostly downs, particularly when it comes to the rash of injuries among key players. That has contributed to lackluster performances as they try to stay in the National League wild-card chase. There’s plenty of speculation on what the team will do prior to the July 31 trade deadline.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Phoenix<\/p>\n

Phoenix Mercury forward Satou Sabally (0) is defended by Las Vegas Aces guard Tiffany Mitchell (3) during the third quarter at PHX Arena Jun 29, 2025.<\/p>\n

These are among the stories that have stood out. We’d like to know which you think is the top Arizona spots story so far this summer. Vote in our poll below for the one you think is No. 1. The poll will remain open until 5 p.m. Thursday, July 3.<\/p>\n

(Poll may take a few moments to load. If having difficulty voting, click here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Vote: What’s been the biggest Arizona sports story this summer?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a time when things slowed down in Arizona during the summer, but not anymore. That’s especially…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[23135,146,13975,22,28358,23815,4314,5,38,1919,28361,28359,4,505,20342,15818,28360],"class_list":{"0":"post-142674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-alyssa-thomas","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-arizona-cardinals","11":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","12":"tag-arizona-legislature","13":"tag-arizona-republic","14":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","15":"tag-baseball","16":"tag-diamondbacks","17":"tag-houston-rockets","18":"tag-kahleah-copper","19":"tag-kevin-durant","20":"tag-mlb","21":"tag-national-league","22":"tag-phoenix-mercury","23":"tag-phoenix-suns","24":"tag-satou-sabally"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114774450394135691","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}