The first 10 weeks of the 2021 season have seen few bright spots for the Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a>. They mostly came in the first month, having clawed their way back from a sluggish start to have a 15\u201313 record on May 2. At that point, they had won 10 of their previous 13 games. Hopes were riding high. Then injuries and other problems caused the wheels to come off, and at the close of play on June 6, they were 20\u201341. The causes of the 5\u201328 stretch between those two dates are multiple and deeply troubling for the organization and its fans. This edition of the Diamondbacks Report will focus on that and, as always, will back it up with numbers.<\/p>\n (Author\u2019s Note: I wanted this to be a 60-game report, but the Brewers<\/a> series ended after 61 games, and I felt that the end of that series was a better stopping point. Due to the sheer length of time required for the research, the statistics in here do not include Tuesday and Wednesday\u2019s games against the Oakland Athletics<\/a>, although those games followed the trend that the first 61 games established.)<\/em><\/p>\nDiamondbacks Hitting and Defense Report<\/h3>\n