So going into today’s game I was bracing myself for what has been seeming like the increasingly inevitable Great Diamondbacks Rental Sell-Off of 2025, thinking about how much of a bummer it would be to watch out the rest of the year with Josh Naylor and Eugenio Suarez playing baseball in other teams’ uniforms. After our dismal finish to the San Francisco series and the even more dismal performance of Eduardo Rodriguez and company last night, it’s been getting harder and harder to deny that it’s a real possibility in the coming weeks.
Happily, however, we seem to have pushed back a little bit against that outcome, and while the offense did its job admirably in providing run support, there’s really only one person we can thank for today’s respite, and that is of course Ryne Nelson.