Baseball is weird. Baseball is weird, and sometimes, if you wait long enough, nice things happen. So it was tonight, and that was good, because it feels like we’ve been waiting a very long time for something to go right for the Diamondbacks.
This one started out very nicely for us, in both halves of the first inning. Merrill Kelly took the mound against the Rockies, and set them down in order on nine pitches, which was brilliant and, these days, very rare. Even when our starters wind up pitching okay, it seems like the first frame is never quick or easy.