Cactus League record: 1-0. Change on 2018: +1
As I mentioned on Twitter, so much for that “pace of play” thing. The first game for the D-backs in the Cactus League this year required fourteen minutes short of four hours to complete. Of course, part of that was the game going extra innings, and thus the sides combining to use nineteen different pitchers this afternoon at Salt River Fields.
A lot of the excitement here happened late. The game was tied at four going into the ninth, before a Daniel Robertson sacrifice fly scored Galli Cribbs to give the D-backs their first lead of the game.