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The Arizona Diamondbacks are an American professional baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona.The Diamondbacks compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West Division.
Pitcher Andy Benes threw the first ever regular season pitch in Arizona Diamondbacks history. The Diamondbacks' first major league game was played against the Colorado Rockies on March 31, 1998, at Bank One Ballpark before a standing-room only crowd of 50,179. Tickets had gone on sale on January 10 and sold out before lunch.
He made his professional debut with the Rookie-level Arizona Complex League Diamondbacks and was promoted to the Low-A Visalia Rawhide and finished the season with a 2–2 record and a 2.72 ERA with 91 strikeouts over 14 starts. [48] Lin began the 2023 season with the High-A Hillsboro Hops, and was the youngest player on the Hops roster. [49]
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In baseball, earned run average (ERA) is a statistic used to evaluate pitchers, calculated as the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched. A pitcher is men by a baserunner who reached base while batting against that pitcher, whether by hit, base on balls or "walk", or being hit by a pitched ball; [1] an earned run can be charged after the pitcher is relieved if he ...
For the first time since 2017, the United States women's national soccer team is not ranked No. 1 in the world. The USWNT dropped all the way to No. 3 in FIFA's world ranking after Sweden knocked ...
A sports rating system is a system that analyzes the results of sports competitions to provide ratings for each team or player. Common systems include polls of expert voters, crowdsourcing non-expert voters, betting markets, and computer systems.
An upset is a victory by an underdog team. In the context of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, a single-elimination tournament, this generally constitutes a lower seeded team defeating a higher-seeded (i.e., higher-ranked) team; a widely recognized upset is one performed by a team ranked substantially lower than its opponent.