Down the Left Field Line:
Life, Baseball & Eric Byrnes

Manny Ramirez became the 24th member of the 500 Homer Club tonight. He hit his milestone at Camden Yards off Chad Bradford in the 7th inning. He hit a middle-out pitch into the right field bleachers about halfway up, and into a bunch of citizens of Red Sox Nation.
It took a while for this to [...]

With test results in, D-backs decide to sit outfielder a week
By Steve Gilbert / MLB.com

Strains are measured on a one to three scale with three being the worst. Byrnes is between one and 1 1/2 according to Melvin.
“I think we are going to try to shut him down for [...]

Eric Byrnes has been placed on the 15-day DL with a right hamstring strain. Alex Romero has been called up to fill the roster spot. I don’t know what finally did it, although I will say that I did not like the way he got out of the batter’s box when he hit his grand [...]

Chad Tracy made his 2008 debut in today’s Diamondbacks loss to the Braves, 7-3. He went 1-4 (a single) from the cleanup hole. He left one runner on base and did not walk, strikeout or hit into a double play.

Tracy had microfracture surgery on his right knee in September 07. His rehab was slowed up [...]

It’s been a long time coming. And it barely made it, hitting the top of the wall in left field and bouncing in the good direction. But there it was in the fifth inning, Eric Byrnes’ first grand slam. And it came off of Tom Glavine, of all people. Only the second grand slam the [...]

Atlanta 3 - Arizona 1. Braves win on a two-run walk-off homer. 
Hey, Guys…yeah, you guys from Arizona,
Randy Johnson pitched a whale of a game today and got no decision. He gave up 1 run on 5 hits with no walks and 10 strikeouts! At his age, he doesn’t have that many of those left, and [...]

The Arizona Diamondbacks, who were batting below .200 as a team during the last six games–they won 2 and lost 4–went back to the formula that led to their early success in beating Atlanta 11-1 tonight. They scored early and often, handing Doug Davis a 5-run lead before he threw the first [...]

the Diamondbacks were swept by the Florida Marlins by progressively worse scores: 3-2, 3-1, and 4-0.  The first loss ended Brandon Webb’s winning streak; the second and third put L’s on Micah Owings and Dan Haren’s records respectively. All three pitching outings were pretty good. But the offense was poor. The whole team, with or [...]

Steve Gilbert is reporting that Eric Byrnes aggravated his hammies during his first plate appearance  on his 2-3 night against Detroit. Here we are almost a week later and he is not playing on Thursday and has only one hit in the two games so far against Florida.

It is time for you to sit him [...]

Brandon Webb goes for his tenth straight victory as he faces Ricky Nolasco and the Florida Marlins tonight. Webb’s ERA is 2.56. Nolasco has a 2-3 record and a 5.18 ERA. I like Brandon’s chances if the D’Backs don’t beat themselves as they did last night.

If all goes according to plan, on Friday, Doug Davis [...]