azcentral.com —Billy Butler and Mike Moustakas homered, Bruce Chen won his third straight start and the Kansas City Royals beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-3 Saturday night.
azcentral.com —4:15 p.m.: The D-Backs and Royals continue their season with Ian Kennedy getting the start for Arizona and Bruce Chen going for Kansas City. Join the game chat, follow along!
azcentral.com (Dave Skretta) —Miguel Montero piled up three RBIs, driving in the go-ahead runs with a double in the eighth inning, Chris Young added a two-run double in his return and the Diamondbacks beat the Royals 6-4 on...
azcentral.com (Bob McManaman) —Notes: Other than activating Chris Young, General Manager Kevin Towers and other members of the D-Backs organization decided to not make changes to the roster now.
azcentral.com (Rierika Niedowski) —Former Diamondbacks and Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's video game company has made an overdue $1.1 million payment to the state and now should seek out private financing to stay afloat,...
azcentral.com (Nick Piecoro) —Piecoro: Some clubs avoid sending their best pitching prospects to the Pacific Coast League. The Diamondbacks, by promoting Trevor Bauer to Reno, are signaling with this move that they aren't one...
azcentral.com —5:10 p.m. first pitch: After a pair of two-game series against division foes, the Diamondbacks open interleague play in Kansas City. Joe Saunders gets the call for Arizona.
azcentral.com —The Diamondbacks are moving one of their top pitching prospects, Trevor Bauer, up to Triple-A Reno, thrusting him into the maw of the hitter’s haven known as the Pacific Coast League....
azcentral.com —Trevor Bauer has been killing it in the minor leagues, posting eye-popping numbers for the Diamondbacks Double-A Mobile affiliate. Rarely does a day go by without someone asking on Twitter about...
azcentral.com —So none of what happened on Monday night was all that surprising: Ian Kennedy threw at Clayton Kershaw. Kershaw threw at Kennedy. A warning was issued. The Diamondbacks dugout seemed upset about...
azcentral.com —Apologies for being a few days late on this, but figured it should be addressed in some fashion: General Manager Kevin Towers said the other day that he is open to the idea of restarting...
azcentral.com —Regardless of where you fall on the “strikeouts are the scourge of baseball” vs. “they’re are just another out” debate, there’s this: The Diamondbacks, whose...
azcentral.com —The topic seemed to pain John McDonald from the second it was broached. His hitting. The results have been good lately. Very good. McDonald had three hits, including a double, on Saturday, raising...
azcentral.com —So baseball is a mental game, the best players fail seven out of 10 times, etc., etc. It’s all cliché, yeah, but, of course, it’s true, and the reason you hear people talking...
azcentral.com —Among the reasons the Diamondbacks were able to win 94 games last season was their proficiency in close games. They went 28-16 in one-run games. They didn’t have the most one-run wins, but...
azcentral.com —I wrote a little yesterday about how the Diamondbacks are trying to be smarter and more under control on the bases this season. They ran wild last year, oftentimes running into easy outs, but it...
azcentral.com —Since taking over as manager, Kirk Gibson has seemed to have a sixth sense about the struggling position player. A guy might be stuck in a slump that’s lasted three weeks or the entire...
azcentral.com —A starting pitcher will make 33 or 34 starts over the course of a season, and Ian Kennedy says there might be three or four games in which he feels like everything is clicking. When he has a feel...
azcentral.com —We’re 21 games into the baseball season, still too early to read too much into most statistics. But considering what we’ve seen from the Diamondbacks’ defense, it’s worth...
azcentral.com —The saga of Josh Collmenter’s time in the rotation appears to be nearing its conclusion, but like all true sagas, it isn't coming to a simple, tidy ending. Today, in fact, was actually...
azcentral.com —On the one hand, there’s Josh Collmenter, who has given up 20 earned runs in 18 1/3 innings. On the other, there’s Wade Miley, who has allowed three earned runs in 14 2/3 innings....
azcentral.com —So I’m back after a few days and trying to play catch up, so let’s just go with a quick-hits type post, touching on a few things Kirk Gibson had for us in his pregame session: *He...