Jim Santora

It's been a frustratingly long time since the last time I did a writeup. In all actuality it's been three weeks but a lot of rough series have followed. The Giants, Nationals, Rockies and Reds have all piledrived my team, with the occasional win popping out but no real show of offensive prowess. It's a decent enough team, the rolls just haven't been coming. Well, this morning at Andy's, they came...to a degree. Both the Brewers and Padres were looking for a bounce back series after some...

The Arizona Diamondbacks were coming off their first homestand taking three from the Giants. There say home would be short as they would take a short plane ride to San Diego to visit the Padres. After going 1-7, Arizona found themselves playing .500 ball and going 7-1. Can the winning ways continue? Game 1 Dbacks 6 Padres 4 One thing the Dbacks have been doing well is scoring in the early innings. After the first three, Arizona were up 5-1, lead by a 2-run home run by “Ottomatic” Otto...

The Brewers and Reds stared at each other at the bottom of the rankings. One team is likely to rebuild after the trade of Isaac Paredes, while the other is playing like the 2026 Phillies: supposed to be a contender, low energy, exhausting to watch, and awful hitting...maybe even dead inside? Both Jordan and I noted about 10x during this series when someone got a lead "yeah, well I can't [hit] / [pitch], so you're very much in this" whenever something happened. So the moveable object met the...