Interesting tweak by manager Torey Lovullo to the line-up here, with Pavin Smith leading off for the Diamondbacks. The rest of the players look fairly familiar, though Geraldo Perdomo gets another start at short, over Josh Rojas.
Roster move
To no great surprise if you watched the game, Joakim Soria is on the IL with a left calf strain. We’ll no doubt get more from Lovullo, later in the preview. But for now, let’s celebrate the arrival in the show of Matt Peacock. As Bob Nightengale reminds us, “He had only 1 college scholarship offer out of HS, quit baseball in college to work at his family’s saw mill installation company, and now is in the big leagues.