Daniel Descalso is in Diamondbacks’ Wild Card game lineup

That’s why Arizona is moving on to face the Dodgers in a National League Division Series that opens with Game 1 on Friday. Verlander excelled after being traded from Detroit to Houston, winning all five starts for his new team with a 1.06 ERA.

Left-hander Robbie Ray, a 15-game victor during the regular season, came on for his first relief appearance in three years and threw two shutout innings before giving up a leadoff double to Lucroy just below the home run line in straightaway center in the seventh.

Over these two nights, those four starters, more or less the aces of their respective staffs, combined to give up 15 earned runs in those 7⅓ innings – an ERA of 18.41. Gray has a 10-4 record, 3.67 ERA, and 1.296 WHIP. “And, so, with the type of games we’re playing and the type of situations I’m going to be pitching in, I’m just going to have to make better pitches”. With the Dodgers in first place for the second half of the season, it became a fight for second place between the Diamondbacks (93-69) and Rockies (87-75).

Which team has the advantage at closer?

The Rockies had one of the best bullpens in baseball over the final month of the season, ranking just behind the Yankees and Indians in terms of fWAR, while ranking a little lower in terms of ERA because of the thin air they have at home.

Greinke was charged with two runs in four-plus innings Friday night against Kansas City, a tepid start that came after one of his worst performances of the season, when he gave up eight runs in four innings against Miami on September 22. Miller was flat-out dominant in last year’s postseason, throwing 27.2 innings, giving up three runs (.98 ERA) and striking out 40. Daniel Descalso of all hitters added some more insurance in the third inning with a two-run home run off of Tyler Anderson.

The D-backs will now take on the Dodgers in the NLDS. This one could go either way.

Arizona got a major boost from the July acquisition of J.D. Martinez, who belted 29 homers in 62 games after joining the club. Diamondbacks ace Zack Greinke cruised through the first three innings, but he was bounced in the fourth after allowing four runs before the third out. However, the teams equally split the 10 regular season games played in Phoenix this year. It’s who’s better in that five-game series. He was acquired in part to combat all the left-handers in the Dodgers’ rotation.

That brought up Goldschmidt, who was 0 for 11 with five strikeouts again Gray. Traveling to Arizona will eliminate this factor, and make matters more hard for the lineup. With a runner at first, Charlie Blackmon came to bat.

If the Diamondbacks win the series, it probably means their two sluggers have hit some balls out of the park.

We now know all eight LDS teams. But first, The Flyer predicts which team will win the MLB Wild Card Games and advance to the division rounds.

The Arizona Diamondbacks needed Robbie Ray to save their season. Having played each other so often this year, there should be no surprises, but in a one-game playoff with a Game 7 feel, anything could happen. We’ve got a matchup of new versus old, and it should be a fun one.