Heading into tonight’s game the recent trends for Robbie Ray starts have been high pitch counts, short outings, and a Diamondbacks loss. The first two trends would continue but happily the 3rd would not, as the offense scored early, middle, and late to pick up their errant starter.
The game began with an odd episode. David Peralta was “unavailable” . Nick Piecoro gave us the following explanation:
This would prove to be a topic for fodder and speculation throughout the game, Torey Lovullo had to work with a short bench all night.