Ryan P. Morrison

Co-author, @InsidetheZona: #Dbacks research and analysis, ESPN SweetSpot Network. Contributor, D-backs Insider magazine. Whistleblower attorney.

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Congrats to @OutfieldGrass24 on a beautiful life, wedding and wife. He deserves all of it (they both do). And I couldn't be prouder of his choice of wedding color. #lovetheteal #GoDbacks

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@RockiesZingers @rbergstromjr Good for you, man — way to be. Good luck!

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Best part of Peralta’s 108 mph fliner over the fence, IMHO: that he got that much leverage despite scooping it out of the bottom(ish), away(ish) part of the zone.

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@Crewsett Ottavino-esque. Opening Day, it was as slow as 72, as hard as 83.

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After throwing sliders for 37.4% of pitches last season (previous high: 25.7%), Patrick Corbin threw sliders for 45 of 91 pitches (49.5%) on Opening Day. He's back at it: 35 of 67 pitches (52.2%) have been sliders this afternoon.

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@Crewsett Much more like your average pitcher -- 22.7%. But decent correlation start-by-start that year in terms of slider% and success...

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Closing the book: looks like 53 of 98 pitches (54.1%). That includes two pitches from the fifth that weren't immediately tagged in Gameday -- both sliders, apparently.

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Now 47 of 87 (54.0%).

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Of course, they may have overtaken the league lead for outs on the bases just now, also...

But in 2017, Arizona had the fewest outs on the bases (38) in the NL.

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Prior to the games today, there had only been 5 steals of 3rd this season (and no CS) in the National League. The #Dbacks had 2 of them, added two more today. Last year, they ranked 2nd in the NL (after Brewers).

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@MythicalBen Once upon a time, tying Corbin's success to slider frequency, I did a quick look at whether pitchers throw it more or less after TJ. https://t.co/VPP9TJJLo6 (toward the end -- lots of variation, but overall, no change) Haven't ever looked at re-injury rates, though.

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@MythicalBen A little out of my wheelhouse, but maybe the fact that it's a slow looper of a slider mitigates that some?

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Killer RBI by Jake Lamb against a lefty. Eat that, haters

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But the first way through the lineup tonight, Walker threw first pitch fastballs every time...

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Last year, Taijuan Walker pitched backward a lot — first pitch breaking ball vs lefties 33% (up from 14% in 2016), and vs righties 41% (up from 17%)

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@OnBaseUnit As usual, agree to disagree

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This baby behind home plate is the cutest kid I’ve seen on the broadcast since @OnBaseUnit was back there

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Blackmon’s bomb came on the sixth curveball of Greinke’s night