Firstly, this is going up early as it will also be a thread for the WBC quarter-finals, which get under way very shortly. We start with the appetizer of Korea taking on the Dominican Republic, and at 5 pm Arizona, we get the main course: USA vs. Canada. That\u2019s of particular interest to us, because the Diamondbacks\u2019 Michael Soroka will be starting on the mound for Team Moose. After their manager thinking they had already sauntered into the knock-out stages, before the Italians proved otherwise, I suspect America will not be taking this game with anything other than the utmost seriousness.<\/p>\n
As for the Diamondbacks, they have a night game today. Mind you, given how the weather is looking for next week, might be worth moving ALL games to the evening, and this seems to be happening in some case.<\/p>\n
Gamewise, let\u2019s just hope today goes better than Wednesday and Thursday, where the D-backs were outscored by a margin of 25-4. While the pitching (clearly) hasn\u2019t been good, the offense has basically evaporated over the past week or more. Over the past ten games, Arizona has scored a total of only twenty-one runs, and has not delivered (hypothetical spring) tacos in that time. Of course, it is only spring training. But, still\u2026<\/p>\n
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Not quite got tonight\u2019s line-up for the D-backs at this stage \u2013 I\u2019ll update this a bit nearer first pitch in Surprise. But it is scheduled to be Merrill Kelly\u2019s return to the mound as he ramps up again after his back problem. Following him, expect RHP Andrew Hoffmann, LHP Philip Abner, RHP Kade Strowd, RHP Paul Sewald, RHP Isaiah Campbell, RHP Jonathan Lo\u00e1isiga and RHP Bryce Jarvis. And after what feels like forever, tonight\u2019s game is reported to be available to watch, though it will be the Kansas City feed you\u2019ll get. Personally, I look forward to getting the inevitable \u201cThe content you requested is not available. Please try again later\u201d message from MLB.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s your line-up for the D-backs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firstly, this is going up early as it will also be a thread for the WBC quarter-finals, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[16931,146,22,4314,646,5,4617,24,38,1628,30241,1075,660,1353,4,372,48052,4073,13490,69,2245],"class_list":["post-624933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-andrew-hoffmann","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizonadiamondbacks","tag-az","tag-baseball","tag-bryce-jarvis","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-diamondbacks","tag-getty-images","tag-isaiah-campbell","tag-kade-strowd","tag-merrill-kelly","tag-michael-soroka","tag-mlb","tag-paul-sewald","tag-philip-abner","tag-surprise","tag-surprise-stadium","tag-texas-rangers","tag-the-diamondbacks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116232978857169482","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624933","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=624933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}