Gameday Thread, #116: 8/8 vs. Rockies

I trust you all enjoyed your day off from post-deadline Diamondbacks baseball. We now return to your regularly scheduled program of doom and gloom, the team playing meaningless August baseball for the first time since 2022. On this day in that season, we had just come off a series win against these same Rockies, and… were twenty-six games back in the NL West with a record of 49-59. That actually ranked fractionally better in the NL than we do now, though it was further back of a wild-card spot. But we’ve been here before, and not long ago, looking to find meaning in the final two months.

Beating a divisional rival is always pleasant, though this year, doing so to the Rockies represents the lightest of thrills. They haven’t been as terrible as they were, and are currently on pace to lose “only” 119 games! That’s something of a recovery, considering they started off the year 9-50. Since that (admittedly abysmal) low point, they have actually posted a better record than both the Braves and Nationals in the National League. Heck, over that 55-game span, they’re only 4 1/2 games worse than the Diamondbacks.

They still kinda suck, especially on the road (as usual for the Rockies), where Colorado hasn’t won a series since mid-June in Washington. They’ve lost twelve of their last sixteen away from Coors, so if we don’t win this series, I will want to know why. Though after the tension of the last couple of stretch runs, it’s definitely a little weird to be effectively checked-out on the team level. The rest of the way, it’ll all be about the young players, gaining experience and showing what they’ve got, for next season and into the future. Disappointing though it is, it is also kinda relaxing not to be obsessively scoreboard watching.

And a bit of a special broadcast tonight: