On a night when the D-Backs absolutely needed to win, they looked like the poorer team on the field. They made mental and physical errors. And when given the opportunity, the better team pounced on those mistakes. My parents and I are fond of saying that, “good teams take advantage of mistakes while bad teams can’t overcome them.” It was an apt description of the series between these two, nominally playoff-contending, teams. The D-Backs failed to execute time and again on both sides of the ball in a critical moment for their season. We have now entered the part of the year when every game and every decision is placed under a microscope for analysis because of the seemingly outsized difference it might make in a
For the second night in a row, the Arizona starter kept a a dynamic Houston offense in check.