Breaking :Diamondbacks Manager Torey Lovullo Goes Viral After with a Proud Statement After a Crucial Incident from Pirates’ Clash…
The Diamondbacks trailed 4-0 after five innings to the biggest pitching sensation to hit the major leagues in decades in Paul Skenes. Despite that, they fought back in the ballgame against Skenes and the Pittsburgh Pirates bullpen to secure a 6-5 comeback win.
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In six games against the Pirates, the Diamondbacks have had to earn all of their series wins. A young but very talented roster that’s starting to come together, they have similarities to the 2023 Diamondbacks. Both series had a postseason feel to it, with Arizona taking both series to secure a tiebreaker for the end of the season.
“I’m really proud of this group,” manager Torey Lovullo told Dbacks TV reporter Todd Walsh. “I think that the world felt like their starting pitcher was going to have a really good day. There were 26 men in that clubhouse that made a stand and said we were going to have a different outcome than the world thought.”
It started from the first batter of the sixth inning, as Corbin Carroll tripled off the right field wall to lead off the inning. After getting on the board on a Ketel Marte groundout, a single and a walk chased Skenes from the game as his pitch count went well past 100. With an opportunity to go up against a tired Pirates bullpen, the Diamondbacks capitalized and scored one more run to cap the inning to cut the deficit in half.
Skenes has been arguably the most dominant pitcher in baseball since his major league debut on May 11, but he has held to a solid but not great pitching line. He allowed two runs on five hits, three walks, and four strikeouts.
“He’s got great stuff, we got a really good look at it today. We just thought that if we could grind him down a bit, 15-plus pitches per inning, just find a way to get him out of the game, and it happened in the sixth inning. I think he got a little fatigued maybe, maybe missed a couple spots, and left with a little bit of traffic and it worked out really really well. We knew they were short in their bullpen because of their usage over the past couple of days.”
The big blow came in the seventh. Walks by Geraldo Perdomo and Carroll put the tying runs on the base for the middle of the lineup. While Marte struck out against Colin Holderman, Joc Pederson stepped up in a big way. Down 1-2 in the count, he got a 100 MPH fastball up and out over the plate and blasted a long home run past the North Side Notch in left-center to put Arizona up 5-4. The Pirates had lefty Jalen Beeks up in the bullpen but elected to not send him out there to try to force Lovullo’s hand, a move that came back to bite them.
“He’s such a professional hitter. He can toggle his approach, he sits on pitches. He’s a brilliant mind up there at home plate. They had a potential matchup and they chose to challenge Joc, and I think he took that personal.”
Ketel Marte added a tack-on home run for his 27th of the year, allowing the Diamondbacks to navigate a bumpy ninth inning and secure their seventh straight series win. While Ryan Thompson struggled for the third time out, A.J. Puk retired the final batters out on a strikeout and weak fly ball to secure his first save with Arizona. Lovullo said that’s about as well as they’ve pieced together the ninth inning as good as they hoped.
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