Record: 78-58. Pace: 93-69. Change on 2016:
The Diamondbacks’ 2017 season peaked so far on June 27. They won in walk-off fashion over the St. Louis Cardinals that day, sending their record to 50-28, or 22 games above .500. But they then started to hemorrhage wins, and by the time they limped out of Minnesota on Aug 20, they were only ten up, having gone 17-29. For them to have rebounded back to +20 at all is impressive. That they did it in just a dozen games is incredible. But tonight’s win was the team’s eleventh in the past twelve, and also their ninth victory in a row: that’s tied for second longest in franchise history, behind only a 12-game streak from June 2003.