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.
