Arizona Diamondbacks Gameday Thread, #24: 4/22 vs. White Sox
This aerial view taken on January 7, 2026 shows downtown Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Daniel SLIM / AFP via Getty Images) | AFP via Getty Images Today’s Lineups WHITE SOX DIAMONDBACKS Chase Meidroth – 2B Ketel Marte – 2B Miguel Vargas – 3B Corbin Carroll – RF Munetaka Murakami – 1B Geraldo Perdomo – SS Everson Pereira – DH Lourdes Gurriel – LF Edgar Quero – C Jose Fernandez – DH Colson Montgomery – SS Nolan Arenado – 3B Tanner Murray – LF Ildemaro Vargas – 1B Derek Hill – RF James McCann – C Luisangel Acuna – CF Jorge Barrosa – CF Anthony Kay – LHP E. Rodriguez – LHP Key to the game: avoid having a starting pitcher give up eight earned runs for a third game in a row.
As mentioned in the GDT last night, the last – indeed the only – time consecutive 8 ER starts happened for Arizona was back in August 2005. This came during a six-game spell which was the most brutally bad for pitching in franchise history. From August 19-24, the D-backs allowed 68 earned runs over just 52 innings, an 11.
77 ERA. That included eighteen home-runs. No other six games outside that have led to more than 58 earned runs.
Somehow, the team won one of those: 6-2 in Cincinnati. But the rest? Hoo-boy.
Russ Ortiz was responsible for two of those games. The streak started with a 17-3 loss to the Reds, who enjoyed a six-run third – chasing Ortiz – followed by a ten -run fourth off Brian Bruney and Lance Cormier. After leveling the series, the D-backs dropped the rubber game 13-6 , starter Brad Halsey being tagged for seven runs in the fourth inning.