Offense fizzles, winning streak ends at 6 with loss to A’s
“I just felt like we couldn’t capitalize with the right guy in the right situation,” D-backs manager Torey Lovullo said.
Grace struggled to a 6.36 ERA in 46 2/3 innings in his final season in Washington, but he did put up OK overall numbers during his time there. In all, he threw 176 1/3 frames of 4.29 ERA/4.04 FIP ball with 6.74 K/9, 2.5 BB/9 and a 53.4 percent groundball rate.
“Trying to play long-sleeve baseball in October is our goal and we’re not close to that yet,” Porter said.