Record: 82-60. Pace: 94-68. Change on 2016: +24.
I was at the dentist on Wednesday: first time in a while, and I ended up having to get three fillings. It was both quicker, and considerably less painful, than the 45 minutes of root-canal work which was the ninth inning at Chase Field tonight. The Diamondbacks entered the frame with a five-run lead, but Andrew Chafin and Fernando Rodney somehow managed to fritter that all away, and then some. Arizona got the tying run to third with one out in the bottom of the ninth, but a shallow fly-ball and a strikeout ended the game.