Limping into the All Star Break, currently in last place of the NL West.

Jake Lamb ended up needing the final vote for a chance at making the ASG, and even with all the hype the Dbacks could muster on their social media pages he still ended up stuck in 4th place. Really mirroring the season as a whole.

Corbin vs Shark

7:15 PM AZ time

Can they win now that they are away from their house of horrors?

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Kevin Towers, not smarter than the so called experts

TONIGHT'S LINEUPS
2B Jean Segura (R)
CF Michael Bourn (L)
1B P. Goldschmidt (R)
3B Jake Lamb (L)
C W. Castillo (R)
RF Yasmany Tomas (R)
LF Brandon Drury (R)
SS Nick Ahmed (R)
P Patrick Corbin (L)
SAN FRANCISCO
CF Denard Span (L)
LF Angel Pagan (S)
1B Brandon Belt (L)
C Buster Posey (R)
SS B. Crawford (L)
RF Mac Williamson (R)
2B Grant Green (R)
3B Ruben Tejada (R)
P Jeff "The Shark" Samardzija (R)
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ARI: Patrick Corbin (L) (4-6, 4.90)
SF: Jeff Samardzija (R) (8-5, 3.97)
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Line: SF -148
O/U: 7.5 Runs

Personally, I'm expecting one win at best in this series.

The Giants are much better now than they were last time these teams faced off in AT&T

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Kevin Towers, not smarter than the so called experts

ORANGE FRIDAY AT AT&T
61* Winds 13W Humidity 80%

SEGURA: On the first pitch, he blasts it just to the good side of the pole for a leadoff
homer and it cleared the wall by plenty! 1-0 AZ

Nice start

Might not be too active tonight though. Watching, but worn out from posting so much about this team

Just much better than I expected

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BOURN: high fast ball, swing and a miss, 1 out
GOLDY: nice easy swing on 1-1, singles to center
LAMB: draws a walk on 9 pitches
BEEF: 9 pitch AB, flies to right taken in triples alley
TOMAS: ground single through the left side hole, Goldy scores 2-0
Lamb to second
DRURY: strikes out swinging on four pitches
Dbacks get a pair
Giants coming up

Looking at the boxscores

Don't know how the Braves got 8 runs against Chris Sale

They blew up Jose Fernandez a week ago too!

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SPAN: behind 3-1; 3-2 grounds to Ahmed, nice play on the short hop 1 out
PAGAN: grounds to Lamb
BELT: Strike out this "all-star"; flies high to left
10 pitch inning
2-0 AZ after 1
This must be San Francisco, no?

Bert is perplexed that they throw up and in to Segura, but he was chasing those up and in pitches back during his bad May, that is why they keep throwing them during his ABs

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AHMED: shot to the hole, Crawford from the grass, throws on one bounce, gets him with the big stretch from Belt 1 out
CORBIN: Singles past Green on the right side
Amy G interviewing Willie McCovey
SEGURA: hit by the pitch in the arm
BOURN: grounds to Green, over to Crawford,no throw to first 2 out first and third
GOLDY: Strikes out on a 94 MPH express. On the pitch before that, he got a juicy,
hanging slider and TOOK IT!
Going to last of 2
2-0 AZ

wondering if in the back of Jean's mind was the fact he had homered off them first time around. He gave Shark that look!

POSEY: hit on a pitch behind him, and warnings are issued
that was the third pitch
second pitch almost hit him also
Bruce is furious. "Why didn't you do it the pitch BEFORE?"
pitch did not hit him but went behind him 3-0
four pitch walk to Buster
CRAWFORD: Long drive headed bayward, clears the barrier and it's a game tying homer
and the Giants respond the right way

Corbin sure intimidated them

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Kevin Towers, not smarter than the so called experts

Butch comes out
WILLIAMSON: FLies to Tomas on the line in right 1 out
GREEN: grounds to Lamb on the short hop 2 out
TEJADA: hard hit but right at Drury
tied at 2 after 2
4-3 Blue in the 2nd in the Ravine as the cellar scramble continues

huge mistake on 1-2 and it reached the tin roof which by ground rule, is a home run.

LAMB; foul left and it blew back onto the field and Tejada caught it 1 out
Bochy got the heave-ho, Wotus running the ship
BEEF: grounds to third 2 out
TOMAS: high fly right field corner, has it lined up then the wind blew it towards the line a little more but he made the catch
going to last of 3
tied at 2

Not a good throw...

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Kevin Towers, not smarter than the so called experts

Corbin's had nothing since he tried to throw at Posey

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SHARK: doubles over third, no chance for Lamb
SPAN: slow roller to second, out at first, Shark to third, 1 out
PAGAN: infield in; hot shot to Corbin, knocks it down, out at first, Shark has to hold third, 2 out. Corbin has to be checked out. Caught it in the right knee
BELT: walks on five pitches, first and third now, 2 out
POSEY: slow roller to third, Lamb picks it up and air-mails Goldy and it lands in the stands. Belt goes to third, Posey on first, E-5
Butch comes out
Shark scored to make it 3-2 SF
CRAWFORD: single to right, Belt scores, Posey to 3rd, 4-2 SF
WILLIAMSON: grounds to Ahmed, one hop to Goldy
2 unearned runs
4-2 SF after 3
but the real F-up in that inning was walking Belt. Get him and they don't score