Kole Calhoun’s line drive took a strange and serendipitous carom off the right-field wall in the fourth inning on Wednesday night. It was a bounce weird enough to change the course of events at Chase Field – and, who knows, perhaps it will be strange enough to turn around what had been a dismal start to the Diamondbacks’ season.
Calhoun’s ball ricocheted off the wall in right and rolled along the warning track toward center field, buying him enough time to motor around the bases with an offense-igniting, inside-the-park home run, the biggest hit of the Diamondbacks’ 14-7 exhale of a victory over the Houston Astros.