AJ Hinch Gets All Emotional

AJ: "You gotta throw me out RIGHT NOW!!" Ump: "Hmm... nah..."

In the 7th inning tonight, the Diamondbacks trailing by a run, Augie Ojeda dove into first base to avoid a tag, but was called out by umpire Paul Nauert. He immediately protested the call, but was held off by first base coach Lorenzo Bundy while DBacks manager AJ Hinch did the yelling.

Hinch did everything in his power to get tossed on behalf of Ojeda, but failed.  Nauert just stood there, yelled back, and eventually backed away to his umpire’s position.  Hinch was left standing there only to return to the dugout and, get this, continue managing the team.

Good move by Hinch, trying to get tossed.  He’s a new, young manager, and needs the team on his side.  The sad thing is shots of the team during the argument showed some looks of shock mixed with awkward laughter, as if they were saying to each other, “uhh… is doing what I THINK he’s doing?!”  In the end, Hinch would have probably needed to go track and field on the base and discus the thing into right field a la Tommy Lasorda in order to be thrown out.

Now that I would’ve liked to see.

In other news, the DBacks allowed two runs in the bottom half of the seventh, and eventually lost 6-3 to the Padres. Turns out Hinch’s little stunt didn’t help his teams poor fielding and awful bullpen.  Bummer.

Oh and the instant replay showed that, yeah, Ojeda was out.

DBacks Blow Another Lead, But Win In 18

Lopez needed to rest his legs a bit after today's game became an unexpected doubleheader.

After squandering a 5-1 lead against Los Angeles to lose 6-5 earlier this week, the Diamondbacks decided they could do one better by traveling a bit further down the highway and blowing a 6-1 lead over the Padres.

Juan Guiterrez and Chad Qualls teamed up to blow the 5 run lead in the bottom of the ninth, and then after 9 extra innings, the Dbacks won it with a 3 run homer from Mark Reynolds.

The bullpen essentially had its worst day (blowing a 5 run lead in the 9th), and it’s best day (by not allowing a hit in the “back nine”). The batters were of little help also, going dormant between the 7th and 18th innings, leaving 15 men on base, and getting the winning RBI’s off of an infielder brought in to relieve the Padres bullpen.

Luckily the Dbacks managed to squeak out a victory in a game that could have very well been a train wreck for them. The game was 5 hours and 45 minutes, the longest in franchise history, but 5 innings short of the longest in NL history.

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