{"id":673463,"date":"2026-04-11T18:27:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/673463\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T18:27:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:27:41","slug":"ketel-marte-ends-d-backs-home-run-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/673463\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketel Marte ends D-backs&#8217; home run drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ketel Marte took just three pitches on Saturday to end a home run drought that had reached seven straight games for the Arizona Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n<p>Marte saw two balls from Philadelphia Phillies starter Taijuan Walker before he crushed Walker\u2019s first strike 406 feet out to right center field. It was Marte\u2019s second on the year, his first since March 27 and the team\u2019s first since April 2.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wake-up call \ud83d\udcde <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/amHrdJfCwT\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/amHrdJfCwT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arizona Diamondbacks (@Dbacks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dbacks\/status\/2043013584783904953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">April 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arizona was surviving the drought, winning five of the seven games during the stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Marte\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/split.fcgi?id=marteke01&amp;year=Career&amp;t=b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">14th career homer<\/a> as the game\u2019s lead-off hitter had a full-circle feel, as he was <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/mlb\/arizona-diamondbacks\/d-backs-deal-jean-segura-package-taijuan-walker-ketel-marte\/926049\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">traded with Walker<\/a> to the Diamondbacks from the Seattle Mariners on Nov. 23, 2016. Arizona sent out a package headlined by Jean Segura, who was coming off a season where he led the NL in hits.<\/p>\n<p>Corbin Carroll was back in the lineup as a designated hitter after missing the previous two games with a tight hip flexor, and he made it a two-run first inning after his four-pitch walk preceded an RBI single by Adrian Del Castillo.<\/p>\n<p>While the Diamondbacks broke their streak of no home runs hit, the long ball came back to bite them in the third inning as Brandon Pfaadt was tagged for back-to-back homers by Kyle Schwarber (three-run) and Bryce Harper.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona sought a series win on Saturday that would give it two straight.<\/p>\n<p>Catch the rest of the action on 98.7, the Arizona Sports app or <a href=\"https:\/\/tuner.bonneville.com\/live\/KMVP-FM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ketel Marte took just three pitches on Saturday to end a home run drought that had reached seven&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,38,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-673463","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\/116387489980821549","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673463","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=673463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}