The Diamondbacks, collectively, are on pace to hit just twelve home-runs this season. This would be the fewest in a season for more than a century, since the last season of the dead-ball era in 1918, when five different teams hit a dozen or fewer. The Washington Senators had four for the season in 130 games. Of course, the last is a clue that Arizona’s projected figure is based on the severely curtailed schedule. But two home-runs in 10 games is still only 32 over a full 162-game season. The only team since 1948 with such a power-outage were the 1981 Padres, for whom outfielder Joe Lefebvre was the sole player to hit even a handful of home-runs, leading the team with eight.
Preview #11: 8/4, Diamondbacks vs. Astros
