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what a nice hit adam
you suck
As a Reds fan I'm sad as to see Adam Dunn go, but you guys are gonna hate how unclutch the guy is with runners on base. He strikes out way too much, and doesn't put the ball into play in big spots. I hope the guy helps you to a World Series. God knows he deserves it after playing for the pathetic (and I love them) Reds the past 7 years.
what a nice hit adam
you suck
It wasn't entirely on him.
Melvin made two errors that directly led to the loss.
First, he pitched Rauch for like the 7th day in 10, and for the second time in this series against batters he faced last night. Rauch is likely fatigued, and the familiarity got his hanging pitches hit very far.
Second, with Young, a notorious strikeout at-bat, up and a speedy runner on 3rd with less than two outs, Melvin elected to allow Young to swing away vs. a very tough pitcher rather than attempting the squeeze. Maybe it fails and the runner gets tagged out. I think Young is a good enough bunter and Burke at quick enough runner that each makes the play to tie the score. Even had it failed Drew would have remained in scoring position to represent the tying run.
He must be watching some footage of the D'Antoni Suns, because he's not putting his men in situation where they are in the best position to succeed.
Rauch needed a break. I'd have given it to him. Young is not a contact hitter, so I'd have made him bunt.
Sure, Dunn probably should have tallied a base-hit there, but it's never as simple as who made the last out. Dunn will be the goat, unfortunately, whereas it's Davis stinking the place up early - again - and Melvin failing to use his players properly and to their strengths that cost them the win.
thanks for the recap
I just caught the last inning
I agree with davis
his last 3 starts are terrible
why the other one was a no hitting tell the 7
but I guess that was against the lowly paddres
In 11 starts in June and July, Davis went an average 6+ innings per start and roughly a 3.6 ERA. In three starts in August, he's gone an average of 3+ innings per start and has a 12+ ERA.
What the , Doug?! WHAT THE ?!
davis is pulling an ownings
dunn was a knee jerk reaction trade the the dodgers getting blake and manny. dunn hits for great power but his so's and poor batting average well be a huge negative for you guys. like the red's fan said, i cant remember a Dunn walk off homer or even a clutch hit for that matter.
all the dbacks have going for them is haren and webb. IF they do make the playoffs, the prospect of a web haren johnson 1,2,3 would make them compe ive in a 5 or 7 game series but they have absolutely no offense to support the pitchers
8 walks for the d-backs tonight
has dunn brought patience to the d-backs?
note to the mlb do not let webb have a 3-0 lead before he throws a first pitch
Miguel Montero and Chris Young hit grand slams—the first time Arizona has hit two in the same game—and the Diamondbacks beat the Houston Astros 11-5 on Saturday night.
Montero and Young hit the first slams of their careers, both connecting off Brandon Backe. Montero also had a solo homer and double, driving in a career-high five RBIs as the Diamondbacks won for the fifth time in six games.
montero hit his sceond and third homer all year
unreal
Not to mention Dunn: 2-2, 3 BB, 2 runs, 1 RBI, 1 SB
He's now hitting .333 and has an on-base of .520 to go with two doubles, 3 runs and 3 RBI in five games.
steve drew before tonights game had a 17 game hitting streak
17 games 25 hits
batting 360 in that time
got no hit tonight but did walk 2 times
one time he could have tried to hit so he could continue his streak but he want to help the team
dunn has gone like 52 at bats though without a homer
It's concerning, but you know he'll catch up with one eventually. If he can get on base over 40% of the time, have the occasional double or homerun and keep from botching any outfield plays, then he'll be worth what they gave up.
His approach at the plate seems to be rubbing off. The Diamondbacks have drawn so many walks the last handful of games it's staggering.
B. Lyon relieved J. Rauch
- E. Gonzalez doubled to deep right center
- S. Hairston struck out swinging
- B. Giles walked
- K. Kouzmanoff singled to right, E. Gonzalez to third, B. Giles to second
- A. Gonzalez singled to center, B. Giles and E. Gonzalez scored, K. Kouzmanoff to third
- C. Headley singled to right, K. Kouzmanoff scored, A. Gonzalez to third
- T. Pena relieved B. Lyon
wow
pena
Last Play: N. Hundley grounded into fielder's choice, A. Gonzalez out at home, C. Headley to third, N. Hundley to second
L. Rodriguez flied out to deep center
dunn starting to heat up
his addition looks great dbacks are 6-2 since adding Dunn the team
Dunn is Diamondbacks’ Donkey Kong
By Tim Brown, Yahoo! Sports
15 hours, 29 minutes ago
Buzz Up Print
Arizona Diamondbacks' Adam Dun…
AP - Aug 20, 11:17 pm EDT MLB Gallery More From Tim BrownDodger doings dash doubts Aug 20, 2008 It's Maddux Redux; veteran is back with Dodgers Aug 19, 2008
PHOENIX – The man they call Big Donkey said, sure, he still talks to Junior all the time.
At that moment, as though summoned, his cell phone shimmied like one of those old electric football players.
“This is him right here, I guarantee you,” he said. “He calls me every day. Hit a homer today.”
He held up the phone.
“See?”
Ken Griffey Jr., fellow Cincinnati Reds expat, indeed had homered for the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday afternoon.
Adam Dunn let out a big donkey laugh. Yeah, this pennant-race stuff is a kick.
“This is a side of baseball I’ve never seen,” he said. “I’ve never been here.”
Three hours later, Dunn lined a fastball over the right-field wall at Chase Field, a first-inning tracer off San Diego Padres ace Jake Peavy that scored three runs and made the Arizona Diamondbacks game again.
And so the National League West, the plainest of divisions, is not just a two-team race, but potentially a two-man race.
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Eleven days after the Dodgers relieved the Boston Red Sox of Manny Ramirez (and eight days after Ramirez put a three-game whipping on them), the Diamondbacks took the plunge with Dunn.
Like Ramirez, Dunn will be a free agent after the season.
Like Ramirez, he bats fourth in a lineup that hadn’t done much cleaning up without him.
Like Ramirez, he’s not much in the field, but, oh, what he can do with a bat.
And like the Dodgers, the Diamondbacks are an entirely different offensive team today, more like the 161-run mirage we saw in April, and now their ballpark is aflutter with homemade signs gushing, “I like mine well Dunn,” and, “Hey, Gracie, call it an Adam bomb!”
L.A.’s Manny Mania is Phoenix’s Donkey Throng.
“I love it out here,” Dunn said. “I know it’s only August whatever, but it seems like every day does matter now. And oh yeah, I’m nervous. I haven’t been nervous in a long time. I keep waiting for the nerves to go away, but they haven’t.”
By nature of his Reds upbringing, Dunn nearly made it all the way to free agency without playing for a winner. He nearly made it to freedom without ever tasting a big at-bat, without ever hitting a big home run, without ever experiencing September as anything other than one-month-to-go.
And now he has hit home runs in each of his first two home games, both Diamondbacks wins. In his first eight games of consequence, he has reached base more than half the time, forced pitches to teammates who were beginning to look like the moments were getting too big and stood in the middle of a lineup averaging nearly seven runs a game since he first pulled on the clubhouse door.
Those 32 home runs before he got here? Those 270 career home runs? Nice. Fine. Impressive.
The last two?
“That’s why we’ve got Dunn right there, I guess,” Diamondbacks third baseman Mark Reynolds said. “It’s awesome. He creates so much. It’s pretty cool to have something like that.”
They beat the Padres on Wednesday night, 8-6. They won though their 14-game winner, Dan Haren, allowed four first-inning runs. But with one out, a couple of guys got on, Dunn came up and worked Peavy for seven pitches, the last of which changed everything.
“I was hoping at 3-2 Jake wouldn’t throw me the slider right there,” Dunn said, “and he didn’t.”
Fastball, down.
“He hits homers,” Peavy said. “He changes games.”
Meanwhile in L.A., Ramirez had a lousy single in four at-bats, the Dodgers lost, and the Diamondbacks are two games up.
“When I talked to Adam, I told him, ‘Don’t try to be something you’re not,’ ” Diamondbacks manager Bob Melvin said. “Just be Adam Dunn. And he’s been exactly that.”
Dunn saw 22 pitches in four plate appearances. He walked twice, once after an 0-2 count. He’s going to strike out – “obviously,” he said, “I strike out a lot” – but what happens around those strikeouts is going to help color a division race.
The Dodgers and Diamondbacks pitch alike. They win and lose alike. And their GMs, for one stretch drive, began to think alike. One hitter, one deep threat, one guy who can drag a club along for five or six weeks, who maybe wins a division.
Just as Ramirez has lightened the load on Matt Kemp, James Loney and Andre Ethier, Dunn is a nice place to lean for Reynolds, Chris Young and Stephen Drew.
“It just seems like it takes a lot of pressure off a lot of the guys,” Melvin said. “Nailing down the four-hole for us allows guys not to press so much.”
So out with the prospects and in with the heavy bats, the broad backs, the significant Septembers. That’s good because the first 4½ months, for the most part, weren’t so significant.
“For so long we played poorly, and nobody really gained on us,” Melvin said. “We’re lucky to be in the position we are.”
Tell Dunn about it.
“This is something,” he said, “I’ve been waiting for since I’ve been in the big leagues.”
J. Rauch
has sucked tonight
and dunn
You guys had a perfect chance to strangle hold us.
wasn't meant to be i guess.
Y. Pe is the 4 starter sorry davis
in D'bags and in Dodgers can't hold a candle to the in Rays....why is it that I've posted the last 5 or 10 times in the RaysTalk thread and they get no love while the BARELY .500 Dodgers and D-Backs struggle to get wins?
the D-backs and the in Dodgers...that is all.
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