PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Corbin Carroll’s season got off to a rocky start with a broken hand suffered before the full team even reported for spring training.<\/p>\n
The Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder vowed he would be back for the start of the season despite needing surgery.<\/p>\n
Carroll lived up to his promise and, outside of a rough stretch to start May, has put together what’s shaping up to be the best season of what’s already been an impressive career.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a high tolerance for pain and then he went out there and just started to squash the baseball,” Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said. “So it\u2019s a fairly remarkable situation that he\u2019s walked through and he\u2019s having a fantastic year for so far.”<\/p>\n
Arizona has won nine of 10 with Tuesday’s 7-5 win over San Francisco to reach six games over .500 (30-24) for the first time since the final game of the 2024 season. The Diamondbacks’ 13 wins since May 9 are the most in the majors, allowing them to save a season that was starting to unravel.<\/p>\n
Pitching has played a large part of the bounce back. With Eduardo Rodriguez’s effective start against the Giants, Arizona’s starters have 16 quality starts their past 21 games.<\/p>\n
Ketel Marte’s resurgence has helped as well. The three-time All-Star hit a two-run homer against the Giants and has four straight games with at least one hit and multiple RBIs, one off the team record held by Paul Goldschmidt.<\/p>\n
There’s also been a youth infusion, players such as Ryan Waldschmidt, Tommy Troy and Jose Fernandez giving the Diamondbacks an immediate lift after being called up.<\/p>\n
Arizona’s run also happens to coincide with a torrid stretch by Carroll.<\/p>\n
Since his average dipped to .258 on May 10, Carroll has hit .404 with two homers, four triples and eight RBIs. The 25-year-old had his 13-game hitting streak end against San Francisco on Tuesday, but has reached base in 14 straight games, longest active streak in the majors.<\/p>\n
Carroll hit a walk-off single in Arizona’s 2-1 win over San Francisco last Thursday and followed that up with two run-scoring triples in a 9-1 win over Colorado on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The two-time All-Star is hitting .299 with seven homers, 28 RBIs and 12 doubles while using his speed to cover massive amounts of ground in the outfield.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now, I’m trying to keep it really simple, hunt good pitches, control the strike zone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Perhaps the most electrifying part of Carroll’s game is his ability to turn doubles into triples.<\/p>\n
Carroll has led the NL in triples each of the past three seasons, topping all of the majors the past two. He set a team record with 17 triples last season and is ahead of that pace with eight so far this year \u2014 four more than the next closest player.<\/p>\n
Carroll’s 51 career triples are one shy of Stephen Drew’s team record and he has a chance to become the first player in MLB history to lead or tie for the lead in triples in three straight seasons. He’s the second-fastest player (537 games) in big-league history to reach 50 triples and 80 homers \u2014 he has 89 \u2014 behind Yankees Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig, who did it in 461.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s really fun to watch for all of us,\u201d Lovullo said.<\/p>\n
The hand injury long behind him, Carroll is running free and the Diamondbacks are going with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Corbin Carroll’s season got off to a rocky start with a broken hand suffered before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,167,52,4316,1538,88907,756,62568,729,4,9501,118,9496,83120,168,36210,88899,30242,638],"class_list":["post-710400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-rockies","tag-baseball","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-coloradorockies","tag-corbin-carroll","tag-corbin-carroll-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-eduardo-rodriguez","tag-jose-fernandez","tag-ketel-marte","tag-mlb","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-paul-goldschmidt","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40774-ap-arizona-sports-only","tag-rockies","tag-ryan-waldschmidt","tag-stephen-drew","tag-tommy-troy","tag-torey-lovullo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116648379914510117","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710400","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=710400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}