Arizona Diamondbacks teeter on brink of elimination
October 13, 2007 by Mike Olbinski
Yes, it’s a best out of seven series, but going to Colorado for three road games doesn’t bode well for the “Anyone, Anytime” Arizona Diamondbacks.
They certainly could have used SOMEONE tonight.
Arizona stranded 11 baserunners in the almost five-hour long contest. They had a couple of huge mistakes, an error on Mark Reynolds and a baserunning mistake by Stephen Drew in the 9th inning. Down 2-1 with just a single out, Arizona had Chris Young on third and Drew on 1st with Eric Byrnes at the plate.
He knocked Young in on what should have been an out at second, but Drew was called safe. Unfortunately, he didn’t check to see either way, and walked off the bag, allowing Colorado to tag him while he headed for the dugout.
Tony Clark grounded into a fielder’s choice on the next at-bat, which would have been a double-play ball had there been only one out.
Still, Arizona had tied the game at 2-2 and went to extra innings.
Jose Valverde was called to pitch the 10th and 11th, which may have been too much for him. He walked three batters, the last of which was with bases loaded.
The Rockies took a 3-2 lead and closed out the game for a 2-0 series lead.
With the next three at Colorado, our young Diamondbacks team is in serious trouble. If anyone can do it, they can, but it’s hard to fight the current hot streak the Rockies are on. Friday’s win was their 19th in the last 20 games, something not seen for many, many years.
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geeeeez, can anything go more right for the rockies and more wrong for the dbacks, dbacks got not one check swing call in their favor the whole night, a lot of controversial ball strike calls, and even though their hitting much better than the rockies, the rockies seem to tap the ball to perfect spots while the dbacks line balls right to positional players. i am absolutely steaming right now and am looking forward to the cards game on sunday. On another note its even more frustrating the nl is on tbs while the al gets better announcers on fox, is it just me or is there a huge anti dbacks / nl bias in the media, even with brenley on the board he just doesn’t even seem to care that he once managed this fine ball club… ah its good to get some steam off, I know I’m seeing this from an Arizona perspective but come on
I feel your frustrating man, the only part of me that is calm is realizing we’ll have a great team next year and that we’ll be back!