Arizona Diamondback and Washington Nationals concluded their season series with three-market weekend sets in Phoenix, including many of the game’s most bright young hitting stars.
Arizona’s Corbin Carol, 24, and National’s James Wood, 22, rank in the top five of the National League at Homeers.
Despite being in the 2 -for -23 recession, Carol has 16 long balls, which are good for the third in NL. 15 in Wood, Chicago cub’s Pete Crow-Armestrong and Diamondback are tied to the fourth with Suarez.
Arizona’s right-handed Meril Kelly (5-2, 3.52 ERA) will oppose Washington Wright Jake Irwin (4-1, 3.42) in the opener on Friday.
Wood, including 448-Footer on Tuesday in three of his last five matches and 435-feet on Wednesday. On Thursday, as the National won a three-game series against hosts Seattle Meriners, Wood contributed to two runs doubles, in 10 innings.
Robert Hassel III, another young talent acquired business with wood, which in 2022 sent Juan Soto to San Diego Padress, on Wednesday, its first Major League Homer. This was part of his first career three-hit game.
“This is something I am waiting for,” Hassel said. “You imagine what it is and what it all is, but it finally happened and I feel blessed.”
Washington has won eight out of 11 after capturing the series in Seattle. Josh Bell won continuously for the last two days.
Diamondback has lost seven consecutive and seven of eight, on Monday, his only win against the Pittsburgh Pirates in the three-game opener in the coming period.
Manager Tori Lovulo met several players in his office on Wednesday morning to discuss the recent stretch before the 10–1 victory of the Pirates behind the Paul scains in his office.
“We just have to play better baseball. All this is there,” Lovullo said, whose team has two games under 500 for the first time this season.
“This team is good. We are going to win the game, but it doesn’t happen automatically. I am losing patience. We have to be better, and I know we are better. We will start performing at some point. I want it right now.”
D-Back was dropped 19–1 in the last 13 innings of the Pittsburgh range. Arizona took a 6–0 lead on Tuesday, yet the starter Corbin Burns exited with a 6–2 lead after seven innings.
Arizona’s Bulpen era is 5.49, the second largest mark in NL. Only Washington is higher at 6.08.
In the first series between the teams from 4-6 April in Washington, the National took two out of three, D-Back’s second Basman Katel Marte won the last two after Marte and stressed for a double running in the opener’s first innings. The injury kept him out for a month.
Marte missed the last two matches of the Pittsburgh range due to a disease, but he could return on Friday.
In three careers, Kelly is 3–0 with 3.79 ERA, which begins against citizens, although they have not faced them since 2023. Bell is away from 4 -for -8 and two walks with two homes.
The four career stars Irwin 0-2 with 5.40 ERA against Arizona, including a no-decision, when he bowled five innings of four runs in a four-run defeat on 4 April. Carol is with two homers with 4 -for -9, and Marte is 4 -for -9 with a homer.
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