A fun time out12/14/2023 ![]() ![]() He’s struck out six batters in both of his July starts, just the second and third times this year he’s had more than four punchouts in a game. Davies doesn’t really do anything particularly well, as evidenced by his ERA estimators, but he doesn’t get blasted that often. Zach Davies (11 GS, 53 2 ⁄ 3 IP, 145 ERA-, 104 FIP-, 107 xFIP-, 109ish 圎RA-)Īfter missing about two months with an oblique injury, Zach Davies has returned to do his mediocre innings-eating shtick in Arizona’s rotation. Tuesday, July 18, 7:20 pm ET (Bankruptcy Sports South) The latter will definitely need to get back to swinging it a bit better to stay relevant. 334 xwOBA), but the Diamondbacks have been just awful (.280 wOBA. The Braves’ bats have also cooled a fair bit in July (.341 wOBA. While both the wOBA and xwOBA are down over these past 28 games compared to before, the big difference is the evaporation of the huge wOBA-xwOBA gap. ![]() Since June 13, though, they’re bottom ten in both wOBA and xwOBA, with only the tenth-largest favorable wOBA-xwOBA gap. Needless to say, their wOBA-xwOBA gap was the largest favorable one in baseball. Up through June 12, the Diamondbacks were a top-5 wOBA team despite a bottom-10 xwOBA. What’s caused them to scuffle lately, though, has largely been the hitting. The pitching isn’t as good as the position players, and the bullpen is a work in progress, but they’ve made it all work quite well. They’re the majors’ best baserunning team and play good defense while hitting pretty well. Overall, the Diamondbacks are still very dangerous. The first loss of this most recent losing streak put them in a tie atop the NL West for the first time since Rosario’s slam they fell out of first place for the first time since May 31 with a loss in the next game, and now find themselves in third place, two back of the Dodgers and a haf-game back of the Giants. 500, but then lost four in a row (including getting swept by the Mets), won two games, and then lost four in a row again (including a sweep at the hands of the Blue Jays). They rang in the month with a win against the Angels that put them 16 games over. The real damage has come more recently, as Arizona is just 3-8 in July. But, after their blazing start, they’ve largely tread water since, going 11-17 since that six-game winning streak. The rest of June was more than fine, as they immediately won six straight after losing to Rosario’s slam. The Braves then went on a nigh-unstoppable run, before a hiccup against the Chicago White Sox this past weekend in Atlanta that saw them drop two of three, giving them losses in three of their last four games.Īs for the Diamondbacks, who entered that series against the Braves with the NL’s best record but then ceded it to Atlanta, things have not been so hunky-dory recently. The first of those series wins came in Arizona, thanks to a miraculous ninth-inning, two-out grand slam by Eddie Rosario. The Braves reeled off a streak of 11 consecutive series wins from early June up to the All-Star Break. ![]()
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