{"id":662970,"date":"2026-04-04T15:55:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/662970\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T15:55:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:55:25","slug":"this-diamondbacks-trend-is-starting-to-feel-impossible-to-ignore-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/662970\/","title":{"rendered":"This Diamondbacks Trend is Starting to Feel Impossible to Ignore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Diamondbacks have an undeniable issue in terms of their pitching and run prevention efforts so far in the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>The big inning.<\/p>\n<p>So far in 2026, the D-backs have allowed at least four runs in a single inning in six of their first eight contests this season, including a six-run inning and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/diamondbacks\/onsi\/arizona-diamondbacks-news\/d-backs-game-braves-turns-ugly-abysmal-pitching-performance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eight-run inning<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>For a team whose weakness has generally been on the pitching side, Arizona&#8217;s staff has had its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/diamondbacks\/onsi\/arizona-diamondbacks-news\/d-backs-thrilling-sweep-tigers-told-us-gallen-sewald-fernandez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">moments of relative stability<\/a> so far this season \u2014 perhaps surprisingly so, if not for the massive lopsided frames. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re well aware of those big innings, those big, crooked numbers. We&#8217;ve got to stop that,&#8221; manager Torey Lovullo said to <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/burns-gambo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Sports 98.7&#8217;s Burns &amp; Gambo<\/a> on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s something that&#8217;s going on here that I don&#8217;t really like and I know the entire team doesn&#8217;t like. One or two runs keeps you in the game. When you give up eight, you&#8217;re going to have a hell of a time coming back [from] that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Torey Lovullo says Diamondbacks have problem with big innings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arizona Diamondbacks have an undeniable issue in terms of their pitching and run prevention efforts so far&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,38,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-662970","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-arizonadiamondbacks","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-diamondbacks","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116347255326105161","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662970","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=662970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}