Mets, July Out Like Lion, August In Like Lamb

The Mets were hoping the heroics of the last game of July would propel them into August. Yeah, well, if wishes were horses… The walk-off victory on Saturday night was quickly erased by the ass whooping the Arizona Diamondbacks laid on the Mets on Sunday. The Mets dropped the final game of the series 14-1 [...]

Mets, Valdes Collapse

A day after the New York Mets got a wondrous game from R.A. Dickey, the pitching staff allowed the worst team in the NL to put up nine runs and beat them for the fourth time in four games. The 9-6 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks proves that the Mets are not going to be [...]

Phillies extend win streak to six games in 9-5 win over Diamondbacks

The Philadelphia Phillies won their sixth game in a row after a 9-5 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday to move within 3 ½ games of the Atlanta Braves in the NL East. After his 11-game hitting streak came to an end Monday, Ryan Howard bounced back to go 2 for 4 with three [...]

Mets Tear Out My Heart Again

So, I get up at 1:30AM to get ready for work, flip on the computer and see that the Mets game is still on. As I wait for the bottom of the 12th to start I read this article about how the Mets are giving up on the season due to the fact that they [...]

Mets Offense Lost In Desert

The New York Mets are already looking for a way back home, probably to see if they could find their bats. The Mets lost 3-2 to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday and gave interim D-Backs manager Kirk Gibson his first winning streak since he took over on July 2. The loss dropped the Mets to [...]

Rays lose 5th straight series, frustrations mount

Well. Well. Well. As the announcers on FSN try to put a positive spin on today’s loss, which is the 5th consecutive series loss the Tampa Bay Rays have had, there is one positive note. Someone has called BJ Upton out. In the top of the 5th inning when the Rays returned to the dugout, [...]

Braves Beat Diamondbacks 11-7

The Braves blew a five-run seventh inning lead, but rallied to score four runs in the top of the ninth inning to pull out the win as Atlanta defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 11-7 this afternoon at Chase Field in Phoenix.
Arizona broke on top 2-0 in the game, scoring two runs in the bottom of the [...]

Diamondbacks Edge Braves 2-1

Atlanta’s Kenshin Kawakami pitched six shutout innings, but was again denied his first win of the year as Arizona rallied from a 1-0 deficit to beat the Braves 2-1 on Wednesday night at Chase Field in Phoenix.
The game featured a great pitchers duel between Kawakami and Arizona’s Ian Kennedy, with Kawakami throwing six scoreless innings [...]

Braves Beat Diamondbacks 7-5

Troy Glaus delivered a game-winning rbi-double in the eighth inning as the Braves beat the Diamondbacks 7-5 on Tuesday night.
The game was a  hotly-contested, back-and-forth battle throughout the night, with the lead changing hands five times before Glaus put the Braves in front to stay with his game-winning rbi-double.
Atlanta scored twice in the second inning [...]

Q and A: AzSnakepit’s Jim McLennan

Tomahawk Talk recently had the opportunity to run another series of Diamondbacks and Braves related questions by Jim McLennan of SB Nation’s AzSnakepit.com as a followup to the great interview that Jim did here at Tomahawk Talk last month.
And with the Braves and Diamondbacks currently playing each other this week in a four-game series, the [...]

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