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Diamondbacks 3, Phillies 4: Meet the new dross, same as the old dross

Record: 15-19. Pace: 71-91. Change on 2014: +4.

For anyone who though firing Addison Reed would cure everything, tonight was a cold reality check. Over the past dozen games, the Diamondbacks are 5-7, six of those seven losses belonging to relievers, the exception being Josh Collmenter's two-inning meltdown in the opener against Washington. The rest have been spread around the bullpen: the since-demoted Evan Marshall had a pair, but the others belong to Enrique Burgos, Randall Delgado and Addison Reed, with Oliver Perez adding his name to the list for his role in a horrendous seventh inning tonight, which saw three relievers combine to give up three runs, once again turning a lead into a deficit in a single frame.