DENVER – The list of disappointments from the Diamondbacks’ 2016 season is long, and on it somewhere are the names Zack Greinke and Paul Goldschmidt. Neither would be at the top, neither at the bottom. But both players came away from last year with bad tastes in their mouths. Both thought this year would be better.
The Diamondbacks are less than five weeks into their season, but so far both are right. The two played key roles in a victory on Friday night over the Colorado Rockies, Goldschmidt slamming a pair of homers, Greinke pitching effectively for seven innings, and the Diamondbacks survived a harrowing ninth inning to escape Coors Field with a 6-3 win.