Another double-dip day, and in the World Baseball Classic, Italy and Puerto Rico is already under way. Remarkably, the Italians put up a four-spot in the bottom of the first, so their Cinderella story continues. I\u2019m trying to think of an equivalent team reaching the World Cup semi-final. Morocco were unexpected semi-finalists last time. Maybe Turkey in 2002? Later on (6 pm Arizona time), Japan plays Venezuela to see who the Italians or Ricans will get in the semi-final. And I see Puerto Rico has just loaded the bases with one out in the second, without needing a hit, so this one may be far from over yet\u2026<\/p>\n
Back in the more prosaic surroundings of the Cactus League, here\u2019s your line-up for the D-backs.<\/p>\n
Zac has been pretty good so far this spring: just one hit through four innings, with no walks and five strikeouts. He has a lot to prove this year, so hopefully the good form isn\u2019t just a spring fling. After Gallen, the scheduled pitchers are RHP Joe Ross, RHP Kevin Ginkel, RHP Ryan Thompson and RHP Juan Morillo. Carroll is back in the line-up again, though still limited to DH duties for whatever reason. Also on the health front, Gabriel Moreno\u2019s imaging<\/a> (he was a late scratch with forearm tightness last night) showed only some inflammation and no structural damage.<\/p>\n This one is also on dbacks.tv, with the Giants feed this afternoon, so tune in and join us there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another double-dip day, and in the World Baseball Classic, Italy and Puerto Rico is already under way. Remarkably,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,75962,4314,5,38,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-624004","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-discussion","11":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-diamondbacks","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116229492749548474","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624004","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=624004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}