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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Arizona Diamondbacks - An Exercise in Patience

Posted on September 22, 2015 at 09:57 AM.

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With the MLB season nearly over, I figured why not stop waiting and start writing. With that being said, welcome to my inaugural dynasty blog! My goal of this dynasty is to play all 162 games for my team, occasionally updating on progress and such as I go along. As I'm already two and a half games into my season here is what has happened so far.
Upon first getting control of my team for this dynasty, I established a few ground rules that I'll do my best to follow throughout at least MLB 15 depending on how things change from game edition to game edition. I'll be following the guidelines set here. I will be attempting to manage this club as "realistically" as possible.

Picking up a few games into the season, my 2-3 Diamondbacks looked to avoid getting swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the final game of their three game series. Frustration seemed to be the theme of the night for batters on both teams with strikeouts high and runs low as both teams combined for 21 strikeouts in the extended game. Even more frustrating for the Diamondbacks was an inability to convert with runners on base as they left an extraordinarily high 12 men stranded in the contest. Despite leaving the bases loaded multiple times, the Diamondbacks eventually converted in the bottom of the 12th as David Peralta hit a sacrifice fly to deep center field resulting in a walk off victory for the home Diamondbacks and pushing them back up to .500 on the young season. There's still much baseball to be played but there's never a bad time for a win.

Los Angeles Dodgers at Arizona Diamondbacks
Apr 12, 2015	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	R	H	E
Los Angeles (4-2)	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0
Arizona (3-3)	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	13	0
W: Anderson (1-0) L: Johnson (1-2)

Los Angeles Dodgers
HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	HR	AVG
Kendrick, 2B	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	.346
Puig, RF	5	0	0	0	0	2	0	.250
Gonzalez, 1B	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	.304
Guerrero, 3B	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	.333
Grandal, C	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	.350
Van Slyke, LF	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000
Baez, P	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Howell, P	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Ethier, PH	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	.190
Johnson, P	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Peralta, P	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Pederson, CF	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000
Rollins, SS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.285
Turner, PH-SS	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	.272
Kershaw, P	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000
Crawford, LF	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.320
TEAM TOTALS	38	1	3	1	0	9	0
BATTING: 2B: Guerrero, Ethier RBI: Van Slyke LOB: 1
BASERUNNING: CS: Kendrick

Arizona Diamondbacks
HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	HR	AVG
Pollock, CF	6	2	4	0	0	1	0	.259
Tomas, RF	6	0	3	0	0	2	0	.391
Goldschmidt, 1B	4	0	1	0	2	2	0	.217
Peralta, LF	3	0	0	2	1	2	0	.272
Ahmed, SS	5	0	3	0	0	1	0	.421
Castillo, C	5	0	0	0	0	2	0	.318
Hill, 2B	5	0	2	0	0	0	0	.238
Bloomquist, 3B	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	.111
Corbin, P	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Hernandez, PH	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Gee, P	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Romak, PH	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	.300
Anderson, P	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
TEAM TOTALS	44	2	13	2	3	12	0
BATTING: 2B: Tomas 3B: Pollock RBI: Peralta (2) SF: Peralta (2) GIDP: Castillo LOB: 12

Los Angeles Dodgers
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Kershaw	7.0	7	1	1	1	6	0	1.17
Baez (BS, 1)	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1.92
Howell	2.0	2	0	0	1	4	0	0.00
Johnson (L, 1-2)	1.0	3	1	1	1	1	0	9.00
Peralta	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	13.50
TEAM TOTALS	11.1	13	2	2	3	12	0