Diamondbacks vs Cardinals series thread

[coyoteshockeyfan]

Happy Opening Day folks!

 

[BC867]

Happy Opening Day folks!

It is over two hours 'til game time and I am going to predict that we will see the 2011 Ian Kennedy this season (and hopefully tonight).

 

[unseenaz]

opening day might as well be my birthday. happiest day of the year for me. nothing better than dbacks baseball with a fresh start!

 

[coyoteshockeyfan]

Great to see Brandon Webb again, what a shame how quickly his career was derailed by injury.

 

[Avondale Red Rage]

"RedBeard" seemed a little amped in the 1st, but has settled down and throwing darts through 4 with 5k's. Need the run scoring to start!

 

[Avondale Red Rage]

Single, single, double, double. Just like that the Dbacks go up 3-1 after 4.

 

[BC867]

Single, single, double, double. Just like that the Dbacks go up 3-1 after 4.

The D'backs are no longer the Kleenex Kids -- pop up one at a time.

Just as they planned. Just as we've been waiting for.

 

[DiamondBacks5117]

love the way thing are going but i thought that caught stealing hurt us we should've had a lot more runs that inning. Ian is looking really impressive!

 

[Mathew81]

So much easier to listen to

 

[thirty-two]

I really like Bob Brenly.

 

[DiamondBacks5117]

Good play by Goldi!

 

[PDXChris]

I have seen enough Pennington already. Bring up Didi Gregorius and lets see what he can do since we know what Pennington can't do.

 

[PDXChris]

Nevermind, Didi Gregorius is on the DL.

 

[Chris_Sanders]

This team is just singling and doubling it's way around the bases. It is fun to watch.

 

[gmabel830]

Liking the product on the field and in the announce booth so far!

 

[gmabel830]

161 more just like that please!

 

[coyoteshockeyfan]

Solid. I think the team will be rewarded if Parra gets the bulk of the playing time over Ross.

 

[BC867]

Solid. I think the team will be rewarded if Parra gets the bulk of the playing time over Ross.

They said in the booth that Gibby wants to get 4 outfielders 500 AB's this season. That's probably not do-able. But 4 with 400 sounds right. It might just happen, barring injuries, of which we already have two in the outfield.

 

[UncleChris]

Sa-Weet!!!! Nice, nice start!!!

Parra was awesome tonight. 4 for 5 with 3 doubles? Are you kidding me? I'd like to see him have a career year. I'm not quite sure why, but I've always liked him.

 

[TJ]

So is the plan to have a The team combine for 5000 hits and 12 homers for the season?

I could get used o this small-ball stuff as long as we do it consistently.

 

[unseenaz]

Really impressed by prado. Real selfless at bats all night long, going the other way with the ball with a runner on 2nd every time. There was a play when he was on first and the ball was hit and he got to third, and he looked more excited that the guy who got the hit. That's all something we'd never see JUP do.

 

[Dback Jon]

Thoughts from last night

!) Great to see a sell out. While there were, as expected, a number of Cardinal fans, it was a very energetic Dback crowd

2) Parra!!! If he doesn't start the majority of games, get rid of Gibby. Hit the ball hard all five at-bats, with two of his three doubles feet (inches) away from HR's. Even his out was a better hit ball than 90% of JUP or CY's at bats last year.

3) Liked what I saw from Prado

4) Gotta love it when Goldy as earned enough respect to get an IW

5) Pennington looked lost at the plate. As good as Parra looked, Pennington looked 180 from that.

7) All three pitchers were SHARP!

 

[BC867]

Thoughts from last night

!) Great to see a sell out. While there were, as expected, a number of Cardinal fans, it was a very energetic Dback crowd

2) Parra!!! If he doesn't start the majority of games, get rid of Gibby. Hit the ball hard all five at-bats, with two of his three doubles feet (inches) away from HR's. Even his out was a better hit ball than 90% of JUP or CY's at bats last year.

3) Liked what I saw from Prado

4) Gotta love it when Goldy as earned enough respect to get an IW

5) Pennington looked lost at the plate. As good as Parra looked, Pennington looked 180 from that.

7) All three pitchers were SHARP!

'Agree. I expect that Parra will be consistently solid and that Kubel will be traded when Ross returns. It's funny that on the Google D'backs roster page, Kubel is still shown wearing his Twinkies hat.

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=dbacks+roster&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

I, too, liked Prado giving himself up to move runners. It fits right in with the 2013 team philosophy. And I hope that Goldy continues to grow steadily. We have other RBI guys, but he will continue to be the big bopper that every team needs.

Pennington was pathetic at-bat. When Bloomquist comes back, he'll be bumped unless and until Didi is ready first.

And, oh yeah, who are this JUp and CY you referred to?

 

[BC867]

Cliff Pennington really looked bad in his first AB in game 2. He needed a golf club on the pitch he struck out on. 0-5 with 4 strikeouts so far. We need a DH for SS.

 

[unseenaz]

Wow Heath Bell looked bad. He looked so stale out there. Even the foul balls were getting rocketed.

When he took the mound I turned to my girlfriend and said "first pitch home run, watch"