Record 8-11. Change on 2025: -0.5. 5-inning record: 4-13-2.<\/p>\n
A new record-holder for the worst margin of defeat this spring, the Arizona pitching staff giving up 14 hits and two walks. To be fair, there were four unearned runs, resulting from errors by Pavin Smith and Kevin Ginkel. But even nine earned runs\u2026 is not good. Philip Abner was the only pitcher to go an inning without allowing an earned run. Elsewhere, it was more or less rough outings all over the place. Thomas Hatch allowed five runs over two innings, while both Ryan Thompson and Ginkel gave up two. Ryne Nelson ended up – with the help of some up\/downs – going 3.1 innings, and was charged with three runs on two hits (both homers) and a walk. He did strike out four.<\/p>\n
The Diamondbacks actually took the lead, on Ildemaro Vargas\u2019s debut home-run of spring in the first inning, and added a second in the second, after loading the bases with no outs. Junior Franco\u2019s groundout scored Aramis Garcia with the second run. But a messy double-play – first baseman to second baseman to catcher to pitcher to second baseman to shortstop Jacob Wilson to first baseman, \u00d3scar Mercado out at home – summed up the day. Arizona managed only five hits and two walks, with a pair of knocks for Vargas. Corbin Carroll, in his hamate-less return, went 0-for-3 with a strikeout. But he\u2019s back, and that\u2019s the main thing.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow, it\u2019s the Rockies at Salt River Fields, though it is theoretically a \u201croad\u201d game for the Diamondbacks. Taylor Clarke is the scheduled starting pitcher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Record 8-11. Change on 2025: -0.5. 5-inning record: 4-13-2. A new record-holder for the worst margin of defeat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,76326,76327,4314,5,38,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-619269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks-scores","11":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks-spring-training","12":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","13":"tag-baseball","14":"tag-diamondbacks","15":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116213117404538776","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619269","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=619269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}