Record: 64-53. Pace: 89-73. Change on 2017: -1.
Well, at least it was quick, just not in a good way. At 2:30, this was the fastest game by the Diamondbacks since May 26 - coincidentally, also a 3-0 loss on the road started by Clay Buchholz, that one in Oakland. Arizona were shutout for the fifth time this season, and the first occasion since June, being five hit by Anthony DeSclafani and two Reds’ relievers.
As rain started to come down in the early innings, the at-bats were played at a pace more befitting a contest between the Potassium Pirates and the Sodium Yankees.