Ever since Kirk Gibson’s days as manager, the Diamondbacks have been one of the better teams in baseball at controlling the opponents’ running game. Through the first eight games of this season, however, other teams have been running all over them, an issue manager Torey Lovullo said is being addressed internally.
“We’ve had some early games where we were not doing our job and things sped up on us,” Lovullo said. “Sped up on us to the point where we finally got our hands on one thing and the opposition took advantage of something else.”
Entering Saturday, the Diamondbacks had allowed 14 steals in 15 attempts.