Record 7-4. Change on 2025: +1.5. 5-inning record: 3-7-1.<\/p>\n
The Diamondbacks rolled their spring winning streak to five games, with a well-pitched victory over the Athletics in Hohokam. Their pitchers held the opposition to six hits, just one (a double) for extra bases, and a pair of walks. The sole run came against former (and hopefully not future) Arizona closer Paul Sewald, who allowed two hits and a sacrifice fly in the fourth. Starter Brandon Pfaadt in his spring debut, still went 2.1 innings, allowing a hit and a walk with one K. He needed only 25 pitches for that, thanks in particular to a four-pitch first frame. Brandyn Garcia was the pick of the relievers, striking out two of the three batters faced. Isaiah Campbell pitched a clean ninth inning for the save.<\/p>\n
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Arizona certainly had chances to score more than three, but went 2-for-12 with runners in scoring position \u2013 and one of those hits didn\u2019t even bring across a run. The Diamondbacks got two in the fourth as Jacob Amaya\u2019s first home-run of spring scored him and Luken Baker. The pair were also responsible for the D-backs\u2019 third and final run in the fifth, Baker being driven in by an Amaya sacrifice fly. Jacob singled in addition to his home-run, and drove in all three Arizona runs. Tommy Troy went 3-for-4 and got his spring average up to .524, while also stealing his first base; Baker walked in addition to his hit.<\/p>\n
ABS challenges went 2-for-3 on the day, and the D-backs will be on the road again tomorrow. They will face the Cubs at Sloan Park: first pitch is at 1:05 pm, with Ryne Nelson scheduled to start for Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Record 7-4. Change on 2025: +1.5. 5-inning record: 3-7-1. The Diamondbacks rolled their spring winning streak to five…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2391],"tags":[146,537,5,654,34935,161,20494,30241,5009,1892,23022,6962,4,3226,3529,63,372,5938,2245,57061,5346],"class_list":{"0":"post-606771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athletics","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-athletics","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-brandon-pfaadt","12":"tag-brandyn-garcia","13":"tag-cubs","14":"tag-hohokam-stadium","15":"tag-isaiah-campbell","16":"tag-jacob-amaya","17":"tag-luken-baker","18":"tag-mesa","19":"tag-mike-fiers","20":"tag-mlb","21":"tag-mlb-athletics","22":"tag-mlb-spring-training","23":"tag-oakland-athletics","24":"tag-paul-sewald","25":"tag-ryne-nelson","26":"tag-the-diamondbacks","27":"tag-the-kansas-city-royals","28":"tag-third-inning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116173984628058564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606771","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=606771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}