Well, after a couple of joyous weekends of actually getting to recap some Diamondbacks wins, we appear to have returned to our regular Saturday programming, which is to say the Sneks finding a way to lose another winnable game, and for our pitching to let another lead slip away.
I don’t want to spend too much time or too many words on the blow-by-blow here, because we’ve all seen this movie before and the gory details get increasingly uninteresting to me as we go through yet another iteration of this. Familiarity breeds contempt, or something.
What Happened
Brandon Pfaadt needed 34 pitches to get though the top of the first, and let the first five batters reach base in a variety of ways, with a fair amount of help from sloppy defense: Pavin Smith had a ball hit directly at him at first that he totally missed and went into right field, scored a single but it should have been an error.