Diamondbacks 3, Los Angeles 0: The Ace Has Landed!

I don’t know about you all, but I was honestly kind of dreading this afternoon’s game—having to watch it all the way through, ride the deeply unpleasant roller coaster through the ups and downs and ups and downs, and then have to write it up afterwards, however it turned out. I mean, let’s face it....thus far, Corbin Burnes hadn’t been all he was cracked up to be. First there was all that business about him pitching fifth in the rotation for the first start, and then the crap results, and then the further crap results, and then after finally we started to see better results there was the “um, his shoulder is tired and he needs to skip a start, but really IT’S ALL TOTALLY FINE!” That sort of thing, I find, starts to wear on me, especially given our track record with signing highly priced free agent starters to be our slightly aged “aces”. I mean, Zack Grienke wound up being really good for us, but he was never in any danger of winning a third Cy Young award as the leader of the Diamondbacks rotation. And as for the Rodeo Clown, well. He has been devoured by the voracious musk oxen of Greenland and shat out and reprocessed as compost if there’s any justice, so no more need be said of him. But I imagine you see my point.

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