Diamondbacks 7, San Diego 6: It Doesn’t Have to Be Pretty

Full disclosure: I actually stopped watching the game after the sixth inning, and started to write up this recap. I only got as far as the title and the tag line (“Total Eclipse of the Start” and “Every now and then Zac falls apart,” respectively). I kept an eye on the MLB Gameday, and also on the SnakePit Gameday Thread, but I figured I’d just get ahead of it a bit. But no, the Diamondbacks, with some serious help from questionable decisions from whoever makes San Diego’s decisions on pitching changes and whatnot, managed to climb back into this one in the third act. I honestly figured it would be just like the last two weeks, when our Tuesday night games wound up going to extras, and our bullpen melted down like they often seem to do, and I figured we would be done in once again by the dreaded Manfred Man.

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