The Arizona Diamondbacks just pulled off a truly wild one, edging the Kansas City Royals 5-4 in extras yesterday at Kauffman Stadium. Here’s the absolute kicker: the game was scoreless through the regulation nine innings. Seriously, a nine-inning shutout for both teams, then a whole new ballgame broke loose.
The Ninth Inning Cliffhanger That Exploded
Man, talk about a taut pitcher’s duel! Arizona was running a bullpen game, but both sides locked down the offense, failing to score for nine straight, tense innings. The Royals left the bases loaded in one frame. The D-backs had men on the corners with no outs and still couldn’t push a run across. It was scoreless through regulation. You could feel the tension building. Then came the tenth, and everything broke loose! Craig Kimbrel became kryptonite for the D-backs *again*, allowing them to explode for five runs. You thought it was over, right? Not a chance! Gerardo Carrillo had a nightmare outing, giving up four runs while only recording one out. It took Dennis Santana coming in with the tying run on second to finally slam the door, getting the last two outs for the dramatic save. What a roller coaster!
When Scoreless Goes Absolutely Bonkers
This game wasn’t just a nail-biter, it was a straight-up piece of baseball history! According to Baseball Reference, it’s the very first time in National League recorded history that a game was completely scoreless through nine innings but ended with both teams scoring four or more runs. Wild, right? It’s only happened twice in the AL before, most recently in April 2015 when Houston beat Oakland 5-4. But you know what this immediately makes us Seattle fans think of? That absolutely insane Mariners game back in June 2013. We were also locked in a scoreless battle through nine innings against the White Sox. Then, unbelievably, four more sets of zeroes after that! Chicago scored five runs in the top of the fourteenth, only for *our* Mariners to answer with five more in the bottom half! The White Sox eventually took it 7-5 in sixteen grueling innings. Baseball keeps finding ways to blow your mind.
Diamondbacks Brought the Heat Early, Barely Hung On
Before all the tenth-inning madness, Derek Law started for the Diamondbacks as an opener. It’s not his first rodeo in that role, having done it three times in Cincinnati three years ago and in Toronto back in 2019. He worked a pair of solid scoreless innings, helped out by a sweet unassisted double-play from Ildemaro Vargas. That’s just good, smart baseball right there, even if the batter had some serious buzzard luck on that play. What a day for baseball, huh?
Man, you gotta love this game, seriously. Even when it’s not our beloved Mariners battling it out on the field, baseball can deliver these kinds of historic, heart-stopping finishes that you just can’t predict. It’s exactly why we watch every single pitch, always hoping for that next unforgettable moment. Here’s hoping for some more baseball fireworks and absolute drama across the league this week!
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Originally reported by Yahoo Sports.
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