It is about half a season, but San Diego Padress and Arizona Diamondback will finally get a good look at each other when found in the three-market weekend series in Arizona.
After killing seven homeers in the three-game sweep of Seattle, D-Back enters a high note. He has won seven of his last 10.
“We just kept fighting,” said Arizona’s manager Tori Lovulo.
Padress Right-Hand Stephen Colec (3–1, 3.00 ERA) will have to face Diamondback Right-Hand Rhine Nelson (2-2, 4.60) on Friday in the series opener.
Padress dropped two out of three at home at Los Angeles Dozers’ house in the first week by matching NL West Powerrs who failed to give a chance to get land in the tight NL West race.
San Diego, who lost the series Finale 5–2 on Wednesday, returned to a game by a division lead with a win. On a long stretch for a long time, the Padress has won 11 out of 19 after losing six-game.
“He gave us opportunities,” San Diego manager Mike Shield said after Wednesday’s game. “We gave them some opportunities. They just capitalized a little more.”
Arizona returned to .500 with a 5–2 win over meriners on Wednesday, by the third Grand Slam of the Eugenio Suarez season. D-Back has eight Grand Slam in its first 68 matches, a major league record.
Suarez has three Homer in its last five matches and 19 homeers this season. He ranks third among the players born in Venezuela with 295 Homer in his 12 -year career, leaving Miguel Cabarera (511) and Andres Gallerga (399).
This series is definitely more important for diamondback, which are 6 1/2 games from the first place and 4 1/2 behind the third place padress.
Arizona recovered from flowing in a three-game chain in Cincinnati, which was also doing for mericars.
“It’s like gear,” Lovulo said, moved its arms in a rotating motion. “It is moving together. It is a chain reaction. It is connected. On the heels of what happened in Cincinnati … I think people went out of there and pulled a line and said,” Hey, it’s time to go. It’s time to grow that gear together. “
Colek did not leave a run in 11 1/3 innings against San Francisco veterans and Milwauki Breves in his last two beginnings. He has a stretch of 15 2/3 scorer in the second innings of May 27 in Miami.
He faced the Logan web of veterans on June 2, a game The Padress won 1-0 innings.
“This was the first time I was facing a true superstar and a little statue of a pitcher,” Kolek said. “It was very good. It was a fight, and all of it worked.”
Colec is 1-0 with 1.23 ERA in 7 1/3 innings in six relief appearance against D-Back. Arizona’s Corbin Carol is against him 2 -for -4.
Nelson, making his fourth start of the season in place of Corbin Burns (Tommy John Surgery), gave seven runs and four runs in three innings in a 13–1 defeat in Cincinnati. He left a run in his last 15 2/3 innings.
Nelson said, “It was just a lack of command, lack of strike throwing,” Nelson said. “It’s one thing to beat by hits and homeers, but when you beat yourself and put people on the base for free, it is all more disappointing.”
He is 3-3 with 5.61 ERA in 43 1/3 innings at nine career showcase (eight start) against Padress. Xander Bogaerts is 4 -for -9 with two homes. Jackson Merryl is 3 -for -7 with a homer.
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