30 Apr 2009
They knocked.
Knocked again.
Knocked again.
No answer.
So they kept knocking.
Nothing.
Another knock.
Silence.
They banged a sixth time and no answer.
Never deterred, they knocked once more.
And finally, the Milwaukee Brewers busted down the door and stormed to a 4-1 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday night at Miller Park. The victory was the fourth in a row for the Brewers, who seem to be righting ...
Arizona Diamondbacks Events
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2001 Oct 27 to 2001 Nov 4
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2001 World Series
2001 World Series
Baseball in 2001 will always be remembered not for the games that took place during the regular season, but for the patriotism and heroic tributes that took place in ...
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| 2004 May 18 |
Randy Johnson Pitches a Perfect Game
Randy Johnson had pretty much done it all -- Cy Young Awards, a no-hitter, strikeout records, a World Series championship.
Only one thing was missing in his brilliant career, that rare...
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| 2007 Jun 8 |
Boston Red Sox defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 10-3
PHOENIX -- The hidden-ball trick is baseball burlesque, a sight gag that seldom appears on the big stage anymore but never fails to draw a guffaw when it does.
But as entertained as th...
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| 2007 Jun 9 |
Boston Red Sox defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 4-3
PHOENIX -- When Josh Byrnes, formerly Theo Epstein's chief lieutenant, became general manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks, he inherited a team loaded with young talent. Byrnes has since a...
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| 2007 Jun 10 |
Arizona Diamondbacks defeat Boston Red Sox, 5-1
PHOENIX -- It remains to be seen what effect Mike Timlin's five-week absence from the Red Sox will have on his pitching. But it took just one batter in yesterday afternoon's 5-1 loss to t...
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| 2007 Jun 15 |
Arizona Diamondbacks defeat Baltimore Orioles, 7-3
Three snapshots are all that's needed to summarize last night's gut-wrenching, here-we-go-again Orioles bullpen implosion in a 7-3 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks.
After all, you have...
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| 2007 Jun 16 |
Arizona Diamondbacks defeat Baltimore Orioles, 8-4
Opportunities lost
The Orioles loaded the bases in the seventh inning with one out after a walk by Kevin Millar and singles by Paul Bako and Brian Roberts. A sacrifice fly by Melvin Mo...
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| 2007 Jun 17 |
Arizona Diamondbacks defeat Baltimore Orioles, 6-4
Bullpen struggles again
After Orioles starter Brian Burres was pulled after the seventh inning, right-hander Chad Bradford came in. He allowed two runners to reach base before being pu...
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| 2007 Jun 22 |
Baltimore Orioles defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 7-1
PHOENIX -- For the first time in more than three years, the Orioles learned what it was like to play an entire game without shortstop Miguel Tejada. A full nine innings. The first pitch t...
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| 2007 Jun 23 |
Arizona Diamondbacks defeat Baltimore Orioles, 7-4
Failure to go five
Brian Burres tried to get through five innings with the lead so he could qualify for the win, but it didn't happen. The Orioles were ahead 4-0 in the fourth and 4-2 ...
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| 2007 Jun 24 |
Arizona Diamondbacks defeat Baltimore Orioles, 8-3
PHOENIX -- The previous six days had been difficult enough that the last thing the Orioles needed was a long stay on the field to think about all that had transpired on the road trip.
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| 2008 May 4 | New York Mets defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 5-2 | |
| 2008 Jun 23 |
Arizona Diamondbacks defeat Boston Red Sox, 2-1
BOSTON—Dan Haren was dominant over seven shutout innings, limiting Boston to just two hits and outpitching Josh Beckett in the Arizona Diamondbacks' 2-1 win over the Red Sox on Monday nig...
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| 2008 Jun 24 |
Boston Red Sox defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 5-4
Jason Varitek has been going so bad lately that there was some debate around baseball as to whether he should scrap switch hitting and bat strictly as the natural righthander he is.
Go...
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| 2008 Jun 25 |
Boston Red Sox defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 5-0
One night, the starting catcher, Jason Varitek, knocked in the deciding run in a 5-4 win. The next night, the backup, Kevin Cash, had one of those starry nights - throwing out a runner at...
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| 2009 Apr 10 |
Arizona Diamondbacks defeat Los Angeles Dodgers, 9-4
PHOENIX — The dream that James McDonald was living on Friday night quickly turned into the nightmare.
Runs were scoring. Fans in red shirts were screaming.
The sound and fury could ...
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| 2009 Apr 13 |
St. Louis Cardinals defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 2-1
PHOENIX - Twice before, Cardinals infielder Brian Barden had a chance to deliver in front of friends, family and his former team. Twice he had a runner at second base to drive in. Twice h...
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| 2009 Apr 14 |
Arizona Diamondbacks defeat St. Louis Cardinals, 7-6
PHOENIX - Any buoyancy the Cardinals felt from their superb start to the season deflated Tuesday when a familiar scene played out on the mound in the fourth inning.
Chris Carpenter abr...
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| 2009 Apr 15 |
St. Louis Cardinals defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 12-7
PHOENIX - In unfriendly conditions for pitching, Cardinals starter Joel Piñeiro on Wednesday persisted and quelled an unbecoming habit he had last season of surrendering leads, no matter ...
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| 2009 Apr 30 |
Milwaukee Brewers defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 4-1
They knocked.
Knocked again.
Knocked again.
No answer.
So they kept knocking.
Nothing.
Another knock.
Silence.
They banged a sixth time and no answer.
Never det...
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| 2009 May 1 |
Arizona Diamondbacks defeat Milwaukee Brewers, 5-2
This is why using instant replay only for home-run calls is not enough.
A blown foul/fair call by third-base umpire Brian Gorman proved to be the decisive play in Arizona's four-run ei...
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| 2009 May 2 |
Arizona Diamondbacks defeat Milwaukee Brewers, 4-1
There was mostly silence.
From the crowd inside Miller Park. From the Milwaukee Brewers clubhouse.
And from the Brewers' bats.
Arizona Diamondbacks right-hander Dan Haren, the te...
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| 2009 May 3 |
Milwaukee Brewers defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 4-3
The Milwaukee Brewers aren't close to being on top of their game, especially on the offensive end.
Yet, they're finding ways to win, finding ways to keep their heads above water.
"T...
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| 2009 Jul 17 |
St. Louis Cardinals defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 6-1
On Friday night, righthanded swinger Nick Stavinoha pounded a 412-foot pinch-hit homer off the facade of the third deck at Busch Stadium, driving in two runs in the St. Louis Cardinals' 6...
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| 2009 Jul 18 |
Arizona Diamondbacks defeat St. Louis Cardinals, 4-2
By Saturday afternoon, the most obvious remnants of last week's All-Star Game at Busch Stadium had already been taken down. The red carpet was rolled up, the patriotic bunting was stored ...
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| 2009 Jul 19 |
St. Louis Cardinals defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 2-1
Last year he was the guy with the strained shoulder, the sore groin, the alleged conditioning issue and at times the lease to manager Tony La Russa's doghouse.
Now Joel Piñeiro is a wi...
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| 2009 Jul 31 |
Arizona Diamondbacks defeat New York Mets, 3-2
Since they stood pat at Friday's trade deadline, the Mets are hoping that their summer boost comes when their injured stars heal and return to the lineup. In the meantime, the healthy Met...
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| 2009 Aug 1 |
New York Mets defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 9-6
Angel Pagan basked in the glory of his first career grand slam Saturday night, celebrating the eighth-inning blast with a fist pump as he rounded first base and then taking just the secon...
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| 2009 Aug 2 |
Arizona Diamondbacks defeat New York Mets, 5-2
Jeff Francoeur widely has been credited with providing much-needed life to a downcast clubhouse mostly devoid of a spark through a trying first half for the Mets.
It certainly hasn't h...
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| 2009 Aug 3 |
Arizona Diamondbacks defeat New York Mets, 6-5
The Diamondbacks weren't chanting like female softball players Monday night against Nelson Figueroa. But they did put up run after run against him like this was some slow-pitch keg league...
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| 2009 Aug 10 |
Arizona Diamondbacks defeat New York Mets, 7-4
PHOENIX - David Wright, who has started all but one game for the Mets this season, is due for a day off Tuesday. Jerry Manuel concluded he could no longer ride the worn-down Wright, who w...
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| 2009 Aug 11 |
Arizona Diamondbacks defeat New York Mets, 6-2
PHOENIX - The last time the Mets had used a starting lineup without their core players - Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, Jose Reyes and David Wright - was Sept. 19, 2006.
The Mets were...
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| 2009 Aug 12 |
New York Mets defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 6-4
PHOENIX - The Mets salvaged a series finale for the second time on a miserable trip and the bad news keeps mounting. Team officials learned Wednesday that Carlos Delgado won't be back unt...
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| 2009 Sep 11 |
Milwaukee Brewers defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 6-3
Phoenix — After having their bats shoved down their throats by the pitching staffs of the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals, the Milwaukee Brewers picked the splinters out of t...
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| 2009 Sep 12 |
Milwaukee Brewers defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 9-2
Phoenix — We'll never know what kind of season Casey McGehee might have had if he made the Milwaukee Brewers' starting lineup out of spring training.
What McGehee has done since gettin...
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| 2009 Sep 13 |
Milwaukee Brewers defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 5-3
PHOENIX (AP) By the time Prince Fielder sees Cecil Cooper this weekend, he likely will have broken the Astros manager's record for most RBIs in a single season by a Brewers player.
"It...
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| 2010 Apr 19 |
St. Louis Cardinals defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 4-2
ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Cardinals took over the National League lead in homers with an opportunistic first inning Tuesday night against Arizona out west at Chase Field. The Cardinals, ...
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| 2010 Apr 20 |
Arizona Diamondbacks defeat St. Louis Cardinals, 9-7
PHOENIX (AP) Pitcher Dan Haren wouldn't let an off-night on the mound slow him down at the plate.
Haren had a career-high four hits to overcome a shaky start and help the Arizona Diamo...
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| 2010 Apr 21 |
St. Louis Cardinals defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 9-4
PHOENIX (AP) Colby Rasmus and the St. Louis Cardinals took advantage of another Arizona bullpen meltdown.
Rasmus homered twice, including a tiebreaking shot in the ninth inning Wednesd...
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| 2010 Apr 29 |
Arizona Diamondbacks defeat Chicago Cubs, 13-5
Cubs general manager Jim Hendry says little has changed in top prospect Starlin Castro's status since spring training -- despite the fact he's tearing up Southern League pitching. And Hen...
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| 2010 Apr 30 |
Chicago Cubs defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 11-5
Wrigley Field continues to be about the wind and home runs, and both worked in the Cubs' favor Friday.
The jet stream helped the Cubs out-homer the Arizona Diamondbacks four to one, in...
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| 2010 May 1 |
Chicago Cubs defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 7-5
Their salaries have made them a focus of the Cubs any time they have struggled.
But what is the price tag for good health and confidence? Alfonso Soriano and Kosuke Fukudome might be f...
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| 2010 May 2 |
Chicago Cubs defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 10-5
Double-digit runs from the Cubs on Sunday gave Tom Gorzelanny (1-3) his first win of the season.
But they're not what makes him a winning pitcher.
''He mixes pitches so well, and he...
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| 2010 May 7 |
Milwaukee Brewers defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 3-2
Phoenix — If Yovani Gallardo learns how to get his pitch counts under control, National League hitters will be in big trouble.
Make that bigger trouble.
Gallardo turned in another s...
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| 2010 May 8 |
Milwaukee Brewers defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 17-3
The raw, undisputed talent is the attractive part of the package.
There is the speed that turns his image into a blur, like a cheapskate disposable camera trying to capture a gazelle i...
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| 2010 May 9 |
Milwaukee Brewers defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 6-1
Phoenix — Chris Narveson gave up three hits pitching into the sixth inning and drove in a run, three Milwaukee players homered and the Brewers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-1 on Sunday ...
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| 2010 Jun 11 |
St. Louis Cardinals defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 5-2
PHOENIX -- There was no time for St. Louis Cardinals shortstop Brendan Ryan to revel in the end of another skid, to wait by his locker to regale the media with details of his game-cinchin...
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| 2010 Jun 12 |
Arizona Diamondbacks defeat St. Louis Cardinals, 7-2
PHOENIX • The display of power that backed Arizona ace Dan Haren's blitz through the Cardinals' lineup served as a blatant reminder of what the Cardinals have been missing during this ent...
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| 2010 Jun 13 |
Arizona Diamondbacks defeat St. Louis Cardinals, 7-5
PHOENIX • The Cardinals got a performance from Chris Carpenter they can no longer afford to squander and a pulse from an offense they haven't been able to rely on — and still saw all of i...
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| 2010 Jun 15 |
Boston Red Sox defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 6-3
Dustin Pedroia’s offensive struggles in May never worried David Ortiz. Wait long enough, he says, and you’ll see the “laser show’’ that Pedroia can put on.
Over Pedroia’s last five gam...
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