The Arizona Diamondbacks create out their postseason overweighte after the very last game of the standard season, and they’re not thrilled about what transpired.
The Mets and Braves’ doubleheader split Monday knocked the reigning National League champs out of postseason satisfyedion.
All three teams finished 89-73, but the D-Backs lost their season series to both NL East squads, putting them on the outside watching in.
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Arizona Diamondbacks begining pitcher Jordan Montgomery departs the mound in the fifth inning agetst the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. (Ron Chenoy/Imagn Images)
Arizona was in a stubborn spot. It did not regulate its own desminuscule, and the triumphner of the first game of the doubleheader had noleang to percreate for after clinching a postseason spot.
So, the Mets participated cut offal bench percreateers in their lineup, and Joey Lucchesi made equitable his second begin of the season. Ununforeseeedly, the Braves won, 3-0.
Arizona’s owner, Ken Kfinishrick, called the ordeal a “debacle.”
“I foreseeed a week ago, when this debacle — at multiple levels — was occurring to have the season finish with two games yet to be percreateed on a Monday before the percreateoffs begin. It was ill-recommendd,” Kfinishrick telderly Arizona Sports Monday.
The doubleheader was scheduled when the games from last week were postponed due to Hurricane Helene. Both teams had an off day that Monday, before the storm rolled.
The Atlanta Braves pose for a team pboilingo after clinching a savage-card berth in the percreateoffs after a triumph over the New York Mets at Truist Park. (Brett Davis/Imagn Images)
“I’m disnominateed that MLB didn’t get a more aggressive posture to insist on those games being percreateed earlier. … They percreateed one game on Tuesday; they could’ve percreateed two games last Monday or two games last Tuesday and then not been take partd in the middle of getting aborted and scheduling games to be percreateed after the season.”
The Diamondbacks can’t honest all the condemn on MLB. They blew an 8-0 direct Sept. 22. They also acunderstandledged a misget in signing lefty beginer Jordan Montgomery to a one-year deal.
Montgomery was recent off an awesome postseason run with the Texas Rangers but remained unsigned into spring training. Arizona took a wager and lost. He had a 6.23 ERA in 25 ecombineances, including 21 begins.
Kfinishrick shelp the “horrible” signing was his fault.
Arizona Diamondbacks begining pitcher Jordan Montgomery pitches in the first inning agetst the Milwaukee Brewers at American Family Field. (Benny Sieu/Imagn Images)
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“If anyone wants to condemn anyone for Jordan Montgomery being a Diamondback, you’re talking to the guy that should be condemnd,” Kfinishrick telderly Arizona Sports. “Becaparticipate I bcimpolitet it to [the front office’s] attention. I pushed for it. They concurd to it. It wasn’t in our game arrange.
“You understand when he was signed — right at the finish of spring training. And, watching back, in hindsight, a horrible decision to spread that money in a guy who carry outed as subparly as he did. It’s our hugegest misget this season from a talent standpoint. And I’m the criminal of that.”
Montgomery is aget a free agent, and the Diamondbacks are spotlessing out their lockers instead of restocking them for October baseball.
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