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

Wow!  The Diamondbacks gave Dan Haren seven runs tonight and he in turn gave them a complete game gem.  In waiting 7-2 over the Cubs, the Diamondbacks won two in a row for the very first time this season.  (They won an extra inning affair against the Giants yesterday).  Danny also struck out 10 and [...]

If I told you that Randy Johnson would be chased in the 4th inning, would you figure that the D’Backs would still manage to lose the game? They did: Giants 5 - D’Backs 3.
Part of the problem was Snake Starter Max Scherzer being gone before the end of the fifth.  But only a little [...]

Danny Haren pitched seven innings of shutout ball against the Colorado Rockies, Wednesday, striking out nine along the way.  But the score at the seventh inning stretch was 0-0. So unless the Diamondbacks scored in their half of the seventh, it looked as though the best Haren would do would be to gain a no-decision.  [...]

Eric Byrnes hit is second homer of the year and also stole a base in the Diamondbacks 9-6 defeat at the hands of the Colorado Rockies. He got up from the steal just fine. Yes, his legs are healed! He went 1-3 and a walk.
Byrnesie, on that homer you looked like you were a step [...]

If they had been throw by our pitchers, I’d be happy. But they were thrown by the Giants, including new Giant Randy Johnson, who was perfect through 4, took a no-no into the 7th, and threw seven innings of shutout ball, striking out 7 along the way. Thus, the Snakes drop two out of three [...]

the Diamondbacks for non-support. He turned in another quality performance–1 run in six innings–and suffered his third consecutive loss. The Giants won the game 2-0. (Their other run came in the 8th inning).
Consider this possibility: Haren makes the All-Star team as the D’Backs sole representative despite having 0 wins.
Eric Byrnes, 0-4 including a [...]

You hit homer No. 500 as a pinch hitter during tonight’s Mets-Brewers game at Citifield. For me, the fact that you did it in a Mets uniform was particularly nice, even though it was only your first hit as a Met. What a first hit! It tied the game at 4-4 and the Mets went [...]

Eric Byrnes hit the first pitch-hit home run of his career in the sixth inning of Wednesday’s 12-7 loss to the Cardinals.  He stayed in the game in left field and got one more at-bat.  He was out on a scorching ground ball to third base.  It took a great play by both corner infielders [...]

Max Scherzer’s fine debut to the ‘09 season was almost just another wasted effort be the D’Backs rotation. It was an ugly game that featured a blown save by Chad Qualls. Then in the bottom of the 9th Stephen Drew was tossed out at home.
But in the tenth, Justin Upton finally got his first [...]

There is never a good time to waste an excellent pitching start. But some times are worse than others. Now is a bad time for the Diamondbacks to have wasted Dan Haren’s start for the second time in a row, with Brandon Webb on the 15-day DL due to bursitis in his throwing shoulder.  Haren [...]