Diamondbacks General Manager Mike Hazen can’t help but look.
“I noticed on one we swept the Reds in Cincinnati,” Hazen said. “That was fun.”
His tone was some combination of sarcastic and wistful; it is understandable given the circumstances. By this point, Hazen’s team was supposed to be more than 30 games into its season. Instead, the Diamondbacks haven’t so much as worked out together since the middle of March.
The coronavirus pandemic brought baseball, like the rest of the world, to a standstill. The closest thing anyone has had to actual games are the ones being simulated – the ones whose box scores Hazen has been dissecting every now and then over the past several weeks.