Record 64-51. Pace: 90-72. Change on 2016: +16.
Pretty much everything that could go wrong, did go wrong for the Diamondbacks, in front of a rabid, partisan crowd at Chase Field tonight. Not least that the crowd were rabidly partisan for the Cubs. [If they love Chicago so much, I have to wonder: why the hell are they living here? It’s not even as if it’s winter] But it probably didn’t help that any enthusiastic Diamondbacks fans would have had that enthusiasm sucked out of them, by the long, slow death which was Taijuan Walker’s opening inning.