Arizona Diamondbacks Gameday Thread, #23: 4/21 vs. White Sox
This aerial view taken on January 7, 2026 shows Chase Field in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Daniel SLIM / AFP via Getty Images) | AFP via Getty Images Today’s Lineups WHITE SOX DIAMONDBACKS Andrew Benintendi – DH Ketel Marte – 2B Munetaka Murakami – 1B Corbin Carroll – RF Miguel Vargas – 3B Geraldo Perdomo – SS Colson Montgomery – SS Adrian Del Castillo – C Everson Pereira – RF Lourdes Gurriel – LF Sam Antonacci – LF Jose Fernandez – DH Chase Meidroth – 2B Nolan Arenado – 3B Tristan Peters – CF Ildemaro Vargas – 1B Reese McGuire – C Alek Thomas – CF Sean Burke – RHP Merrill Kelly – RHP Fun fact: if you discount James McCann’s single inning of work, the Arizona bullpen now has an ERA of 3. 81, better than the rotation’s figure of 4.
03. Admittedly, I guess you could discount Ryne Nelson’s last start and reduce similarly – by an even larger amount, actually – the rotation ERA, getting it down to 3. 40.
We probably need to take the good with the bad. But Brandon Pfaadt’s outing certainly saved the bullpen after Nelson’s blow-up. It’s only the third time a D-backs reliever has thrown over six innings.
One came in 2001, when Randy Johnson threw seven after Curt Schilling started, when a power outage in San Diego pushed the game to the next day. His 16 K’s is still the MLB record for reliever strikeouts, breaking a mark set in 1913. However, the “legitimate” record is the 20 outs recorded by Vidal Nuño in 2015.
Josh Collmenter got clobbered by the Nationals and left with one out in the second. Nuño took over and allowed two runs through the end of the eight. It was still an 11-1 loss, but again it helped save the bullpen.