PHOENIX -- The Major League baseball season is a long one -- a novel broken down into numerous chapters -- and by June most analysts won't be talking about what happened the first week. But for now, an interesting pattern developed in the first six D-backs games, five of them victories for the Arizona club.
Heading into Sunday's closer at Chase Field of their first homestand and a three-game Interleague series against the defending American League champion Indians, the D-backs had scored 45 runs already this season.
A whopping 55.5 percent of them had been scored in the middle innings -- 11 in the fifth inning and 13 in the sixth inning.