10 blunders that define the Arizona Diamondbacks' season

Diamondbacks catcher Daulton Varsho tore off his mask and screamed for the ball. Brewers baserunner Dan Vogelbach had pulled up in pain around third base was limping toward home. All the Diamondbacks had to do was make a simple throw home.

Instead, second baseman Josh Rojas casually tossed the ball to shortstop Nick Ahmed, who did not realize until it was too late -- that is, until Vogelbach had hopped home on one leg -- that there was a free out at home for the taking.

That play in Tuesday night’s 5-0 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers was the sort of quintessential blunder that has befallen the Diamondbacks over the past seven weeks. Expected to be a club that would win games “on the margins,”…