Last Night, the Diamondbacks lost their 17th game, on May 4. This is not the earliest the Diamondbacks have lost 17. Let's take a look at some of the past teams to lose 17 games.
With the reaction following the 17th loss of the season, it seemed that no team has ever made the postseason while losing that many games. A quick check of the history of the franchise, though, shows that every Diamondback team that went on to win the NL West (all five of them) also lost 17 games at some point during the season. A quick look back at the circumstances of those losses shows that things may not be as insurmountable as we first feared.