Young, Jackson homer in Arizona's win (AP)

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 Young, Jackson homer in Arizona's win (AP)
Chris Young hit a two-run homer, Conor Jackson connected for the second consecutive game and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the San Francisco Giants 8-2 on Tuesday. Micah Owings (3-0) struck out six in six innings and didn't give up a hit until Eugenio Velez singled leading off the fourth. The right-hander won his fifth straight start dating to last September and didn't allow a baserunner past first... [link]

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Diamondbacks 8, Giants 2: Return to Form
Published 4/16/2008 by Jim McLennan at AZ Snakepit
... No Mark Reynolds in the lineup, with Melvin saying "He’s a little banged up... His back’s a little bit sore and his shin is sore." No kidding. Special K's swandive into the photo-pit at ThisSpaceForRent Park is the most hardcore thing I've seen in sports entertainment, since the infamous 1998 Undertakes vs. Mankind Hell in a Cell match. My first thought when it happened, was that we might just have seen the first baseball player killed in a major-league game, since Cleveland Indian shortstop Ray Chapman, in 1920. That Reynolds got up and walked away under his own ...

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