Kyle Schwarber’s ball vanished somewhere beyond the second deck, a mammoth home run that sent the Diamondbacks to a loss on Friday night. Right fielder Kole Calhoun stood a few steps shy of the warning track, looking up and tracking the ball’s flight; he appeared to be about a football field away from it.
It was the latest disappointing visual from the opening weeks of the Diamondbacks’ season, but their 1-0 loss to the Washington Nationals might have more long-term value for another reason: The game provided the latest piece of evidence that the Diamondbacks might have something in right-hander Taylor Widener.