The D-backs (53-39) take a season-long five-game losing streak to Cincinnati to battle a Reds (39-53) team that got the negative streak started. Cincinnati sent the D-backs into the All-Star break with a two-game losing streak by limiting them to one run total in back-to-back victories at Chase Field on July 8-9. The Atlanta Braves tacked three more losses onto the D-backs' ledger coming out of the break.
Despite a 3-11 stretch, the D-backs remain in second place in the NL West and in the lead position for an NL wild card berth. But they are now 10 ½ games behind the Dodgers in the, and 1 game up on the Rockies in the wild-card race.