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Hazelbaker making mark off the bench

PHOENIX -- For a guy who has yet to start a game, Jeremy Hazelbaker certainly has contributed a great deal to the D-backs early-season success.

Hazelbaker was the final position player this spring to learn that he had made the 25-man roster as a backup outfielder.

On Opening Day, Hazelbaker pinch-ran in the bottom of the ninth and scored the tying run as the D-backs went on to win in walk-off fashion.

In the season's second game, he pinch-hit and drew a walk.

Hazelbaker followed that up with a pinch-hit, run-scoring double in the sixth inning the following night and he capped the four-game series with the Giants with a pinch-hit double that drove home a run in the sixth inning.