On September 11, 2024, the Arizona Diamondbacks shut out the Texas Rangers 6-0. Christian Walker played a key role, contributing offensively to secure the win. Nathan Eovaldi started for the Rangers but struggled as Arizona capitalized on their opportunities throughout the game. This victory helped the D-backs continue their strong push towards the postseason【6†source】.
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00:00back early today after win over
00:01the Rangers here last night and
00:03now a chance to sweep both games
00:05in this two game set after
00:07dropping their two games at
00:08Texas earlier this year right
00:11hander Merrill Kelly seven
00:13innings only two runs allowed at
00:14San Francisco last Thursday and
00:16he called it definitely a game
00:18to build on as he works his way
00:19back from that four month layoff
00:21and as I mentioned in the open
00:22to the show they really need
00:24Merrill because he is the one
00:25starting pitcher that can give
00:26them innings he can be a
00:27seventh into the eighth if he
00:29keeps his pitch count down one
00:31pitch and a roll to third for
00:32Suarez and a good start for
00:34Merrill Kelly doesn't get much
00:36better than that one pitch one
00:37out you can't retire anybody on
00:39zero pitches you have to throw
00:41at least one wait there's got to
00:42be a way one out that brings up
00:44the left handed hitting Josh
00:46Smith swung on and that's a
00:47bouncing ball to second picked
00:49up by could tell that he throws
00:51in time now two down on four
00:54pitches very economically
00:55four pitches very economical
00:58stuff here from Kelly early to
01:00for Merrill Kelly right there
01:03what a start for Merrill the
01:04mainstay and that's as good as
01:06it gets from Merrill Kelly and
01:08a one two three top of the
01:09first we go to the bottom of the
01:11first inning for Cody Bradford
01:12four seam fastball change up
01:14curveball and slider left his
01:16first pitch and this one is
01:17blasted by third base Marte is
01:20aboard he'll scramble out to
01:22second base as Langford rallies
01:25back in so that's quite the
01:27start for Arizona see if Cody
01:30can get out of this situation
01:31here comes the two pitch from
01:34Bradford and Carroll swings hits
01:36a fly ball to fairly deep left
01:38center field that is going to be
01:39over the head of Tavares and a
01:41one hop the wall Carroll turns
01:43around second he's going to try
01:44for third here's the throw not
01:46in time RBI triple by Corbin
01:51Carroll and the Diamondbacks out
01:54one run early it's one nothing
01:56amazing how the ball just jumps
01:59off this kid's back I mean it
02:00looked like it was going to be a
02:01line drive out to center field
02:04and the next thing you know out
02:05in center field Tavares has
02:07turns his back and he knows he
02:09can't catch up with it I mean
02:10just ripped on this ball and
02:13then the great speed by Carroll
02:14gets all the way to third
02:15Randall to seventy six he's got
02:17eight home runs this year but as
02:19he stands in right now he's
02:20sitting on one hundred ninety
02:22nine career home run.
02:23Gretzky there it goes number
02:25two hundred for Randall four
02:28hundred and twenty feet for
02:30Gretzky his fifth homer in his
02:33last eleven games a big finish
02:35for Randall in a three nothing
02:37Diamondbacks lead.
02:38Well they've started off double
02:40triple home run Walker my but
02:42for base in here at the cycle on
02:44the first four hitters of it
02:46another middle of the plate
02:47mistake from Bradford and boy
02:49the Diamondbacks are jumping all
02:51over these middle of the plate
02:53mistakes Randall Gretzky with a
02:54long run to left field.
02:56Eugenio Suarez leads off the
02:58bottom of the second D-Bag
03:00Sardin from three nothing to two
03:02pitch swung on.
03:03Oh my goodness.
03:04High deep drive out to left
03:06field ten maybe twenty rows back
03:09and gone and Suarez another home
03:12run his twenty seventh it's a
03:15four nothing Diamondbacks lead.
03:17He just keeps going.
03:18I mean just the March right now
03:20to one hundred RBI is just
03:22home run.
03:23I mean he has just been
03:24unbelievable.
03:25All right nice catch young man.
03:27We like it.
03:27Back fan got it way back into
03:29bleachers in left field Del
03:31Castillo sends one out there to
03:33the gap.
03:34That's going to get to the wall
03:36Adrian Del Castillo double
03:40start to the second.
03:42And here is the guy who has hit
03:44more homers against left hand
03:45pitchers than any player in
03:46baseball.
03:47Cattell Martinez he's two for
03:49two and it's five nothing
03:51Diamondbacks.
03:52Cattell back to back games day
03:54game after night game playing
03:56defense for the first time so
03:58far today a double and a single.
03:59But I like this version of
04:01Merrill a little bit better.
04:02I mean he's got the ability to
04:03strike guys out but when he just
04:05starts dot you know the inside
04:07the outside up in the zone down
04:09in the zone really keeps hitters
04:10off balance.
04:11No balls two strikes the count
04:13here to Tavares and the pitch
04:16strike three fastball right at
04:18the bottom of the strike zone
04:20and yet Tavares completely
04:21fooled.
04:22He doesn't know what's coming
04:23Merrill any pitch any count and
04:25he's got five different pitches
04:27two outs top of the order here
04:28is Marcus Simeon payoff Simeon
04:30clubs that deep out to left
04:33Grichuk back near the wall.
04:35That one is gone.
04:37Twentieth of the year for Marcus
04:39Simeon the Rangers are on the
04:41board and it's five to one and
04:43the ball always carries well
04:45here in Arizona and that ball no
04:47doubt about 10 rows deep.
04:49Smith with a weak roller down to
04:51first and Walker takes care of
04:53himself.
04:54Texas on the board after two and
04:56a half Kelly looks pretty good
04:57here early on.
04:58Allow the one hit the home run
04:59by Simeon and walked one.
05:01But that's it.
05:02And that ball is out over short
05:03base hit.
05:04So Langford is a board.
05:06Well that's how you have to come
05:07back is get that lead off guy on
05:09base put some pressure.
05:11There's a shot out into center
05:12field that gets down base hit
05:14but back to back singles to
05:16start this fourth inning.
05:18So now Lowe and he hits this one
05:20on the ground that once threw in
05:21a right field base hit Langford
05:22around third he heads to the
05:24plate he'll score and it's three
05:26consecutive singles for Texas in
05:28this fourth inning.
05:29They get another run back and
05:31it's now five to two.
05:32You know the home run to Simeon
05:35the base hit to Langford Merrill
05:36can really pin that one on
05:37himself.
05:38He left those pitches middle of
05:39the plate.
05:40Those last two hits a little bit
05:41unlucky.
05:42Rangers get a run on three hits
05:43but Kelly settles in nicely and
05:46we go to the bottom of the fourth
05:47inning and Randazzo back there.
05:49Diamondbacks one through three
05:51hitters so far four for six
05:53they've scored three.
05:54Marte hits a fly ball left
05:57field and there it goes.
05:59Welcome back to tell Marte and
06:03this is all Diamondbacks today.
06:06Three for three for Cattell
06:08that's his thirty first and his
06:10seventeenth against a left hand
06:13pitcher.
06:14No one in the majors has more
06:15against lefty.
06:16Doubled in scored in the first
06:18and RBI single in the second and
06:20now with three run homer in the
06:22fourth Bradford's not going to
06:23get through the fourth three and
06:24two thirds today.
06:26And it was a rough go.
06:28Rangers trailing eight to two.
06:30I have to say that Merrill's
06:31command is not quite where it
06:33was last week against the Giants.
06:34Some of these misses are not
06:35competitive and he's running
06:36full on the number nine man.
06:38Another one got away walks to
06:40the ninth hitter to lead off the
06:41fifth.
06:42I think about Merrill last week
06:43in San Francisco we've looked
06:45at how much in control look very
06:48comfortable out there.
06:49Doesn't look too comfortable
06:50right now and he wants everybody
06:52to huddle up.
06:53Hopefully he's OK.
06:54So I'm stretching out a bit
06:55there.
06:56And remember this became an issue
06:58with Merrill in the past Max
06:59Esposito out to have a look.
07:01We saw him it looked like
07:02stretching out his hamstrings
07:03memory and that cramping issue
07:06which he said was a problem
07:07given the heat and dehydration
07:09and might be surfacing again.
07:11Merrill looks like he's done.
07:13He's out.
07:15He's walking off the mound and
07:17that's it.
07:18He's calling it a day on the
07:19pitch for the Diamondbacks.
07:21It is right hander Slate
07:22Ciccone.
07:24Ciccone has been filling in as
07:25of late as the long man in
07:27relief for the Diamondbacks a
07:29rough six point six zero.
07:31Yacht Ray.
07:32It's frustrating because Ciccone
07:34has good stuff when it's going
07:36right.
07:37But when it goes wrong my
07:38goodness does it go south in a
07:39hurry.
07:40A question for your partner.
07:42Yes sir.
07:42You're the rule guy.
07:43OK.
07:45Merrill Kelly stepped off the
07:46rubber out.
07:48That was his second
07:49disengagement.
07:50Yeah now Ciccone comes in.
07:53Is it still two disengagements
07:55for the pitcher on the mound or
07:56does he get to restart.
07:58I don't know.
07:59I don't know that one either.
08:00Well we'll find out because he
08:01just disengaged.
08:02There you go.
08:03Yep.
08:04And that's a block that poor
08:06Slate trying to figure out.
08:07Wait I just got out here.
08:08And now Taveras takes third on
08:11the first pitch to Marcus.
08:13That has been an issue at times
08:15with Diamondback pitchers this
08:16year.
08:17Ciccone delivers and that one is
08:19poked out to the right side that
08:20will get a run home and Simeon
08:22will get a base hit.
08:24Walker came off first base and
08:26then he was just caught on an
08:28island.
08:29So Taveras walks goes to second
08:32on a box steals third and comes
08:34home on an infield single.
08:36Watching the game we'll take it.
08:38Thank you very much.
08:39Free hit.
08:40Thanks for not covering first.
08:41And a very awkward inning
08:43continues for the Diamondbacks
08:44defensively.
08:45That's a base hit for Langford.
08:46Well this one's taken a while
08:48with quite a few base runners.
08:50There's a swing by Adoles and a
08:52line shot to right center field
08:54and that is in there for a base
08:55hit under the glove of Carroll.
08:57It rolls all the way to the
08:58warning track.
08:59A run is home.
09:00Langford goes to third.
09:01It's a double for Adoles and
09:03Arizona's lead is cut to eight
09:05four.
09:06Toro Lobel is going to have to
09:07get him out of there.
09:08Ginko will get a base and load a
09:10first time in an eight four game
09:11things unraveling fly out to
09:13right center.
09:15Jake McCarthy has got it.
09:16Ginko puts out the fire another
09:19base hit for Gino and now he is
09:21a triple shy the cycle.
09:23Josh Bell at third base and
09:24here's Suarez at second in the
09:26air to deep right Garcia back.
09:28He's at the track.
09:29He is at the wall.
09:30It is gone.
09:32Another home run for Adrian Del
09:35Castillo a three run shot.
09:37It's a eleven to four Diamond
09:39Backs in the bottom of the order
09:41for the Diamondbacks in this
09:42game.
09:43You can't get these guys out.
09:45Christian Walker would like to
09:46join the hit parade especially
09:48after he's been over twice last
09:50night so far today.
09:52Walker to the gap Langford been
09:55able to chase him down.
09:56He's not going to get this one.
09:58Corbin's coming home.
09:59Walker's got the RBI double and
10:01it's twelve to four Diamondbacks
10:04another extra base hit thirteen
10:06hits for Arizona ten for extra
10:08bases.
10:09Castro has single doubled
10:11homerun he's knocked in a run he
10:12scored three times.
10:14I fly ball Suarez looking for
10:18one more and he's got it.
10:22Gino Suarez is twenty eight.
10:25He's four for four.
10:28Unfortunately can't stop at
10:29third.
10:30Why not.
10:31It's against the rules.
10:34Sixteenth career multi home run
10:36game and you cannot be any more
10:38than Gino Suarez is right now.
10:41Twelve extra base hits most
10:43since the club record which is
10:44thirteen set back in the twenty
10:46fourteen season full count on
10:48Randall Grichuk three two on the
10:49way.
10:50That's going to bring in another
10:51run.
10:52It's another extra base hit
10:53Guillerme scores to make it
10:55fourteen four and they have tied
10:57a club record thirteen extra
11:00base hits seven doubles a triple
11:03and five home run.
11:05It is the top of the ninth
11:06inning.
11:06D-Bex in front fourteen to four
11:09brings it down to their final
11:10strike up the middle once more
11:12for Guillerme ball game fourteen
11:15to four all Diamondbacks here
11:17today.
11:17They get win number eighty two
11:19and they total thirteen extra
11:21base hits thirteen of their
11:23sixteen hits went for extra
11:24bases.
11:25And here's a little icing on the
11:26cake.
11:27It's the first career save for
11:28Jordan Montgomery.
11:29How about that.