I hope your medical insurance covers injuries resulting from whiplash, because this season for the Diamondbacks might be causing a rash of claims. At the end of May, the team was seven games below .500, and it looked like the largest payroll in team history was going to be a waste of money. Fan confidence reflected this: the 3.41 figure at that point was the lowest it had been since August 2022. But since then, it has been a very different story, as the team first reached .500, then climbed into the wild-card picture, delivering one of the best months ever in July, going 17-8.