Torey Lovullo<\/strong> Pre-game<\/h3>\nManager Torey Lovullo said that the next step for Zac Gallen is to throw a live batting practice session. Gallen told Lovullo that he \u201cfelt good yesterday (Friday),\u201d in a conversation the two had in the training room earlier Saturday. Lovullo said it is \u201cvery encouraging, really, from knowing these guys and looking at their face and having that tell me a story that matches their stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
Right-handed reliever J.B. Bukauskas has a Grade Two Teres major strain and will miss months, not weeks. It happened during his pitching outing against the Rockies, but not on the last pitch he threw. He \u201cfelt some discomfort\u201d and told the training staff, who checked him out and made the discovery. Lovullo said that reporting the injury was \u201ca lesson learned for all of us, because we encourage these players to step up and speak up when something happens. They see it as a sign of weakness when they say, \u2018Hey, something’s wrong, call the trainer.\u2019 But to me, that’s a sign of strength when you’re able to stop the action and say (you) need a little assistance. If it’s nothing, then reload the next day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ketel Marte took batting practice Saturday and \u201clooks very good\u201d and \u201cvery strong.\u201d He will wear some \u201cdesigner glasses\u201d as his eye continues to heal. Eventually, he will be back in his contacts.<\/p>\n
Dan Straily<\/strong><\/h3>\nDan Straily pitched three innings, giving up seven runs (all earned) on nine hits. He gave up two homers while walking none and striking out three. Despite the seven runs, Straily \u201cfelt great.\u201d He continued, \u201cI came in with the mindset (to) fill up the strike zone. As Brent (Strohm, the pitching coach) pointed out to me, I did that a little too well. (There were) a lot of first-pitch hits. A lot of first-pitch hacking stuff that we did\u2019t really expect. But the goal was to throw strikes. Obviously, I wanted to put up all zeroes and wasn’t able to do that, but I filled up the strike zone. So we got that done.\u201d<\/p>\n
David Peralta<\/strong><\/h3>\nLeft fielder David Peralta had a nice day at the plate, going 2-for-3 with a first-inning homer, a third-inning double, and two runs scored. Peralta said he\u2019s been \u201cworking a lot in the offseason\u201d on his mechanics, specifically his timing at the plate. \u201cNow this hard work is paying off. First at-bat, I felt pretty good swinging at the ball, and feel like it\u2019s coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Peralta worked on keeping his hands back longer before taking his swing. He said it will allow him to \u201csee the ball better\u201d so he can be \u201cmore in touch with the fastball\u201d because \u201cthat was a little bit of my problem last year.\u201d The goal is to \u201cnot rush everything\u2026. Wait for the ball and just react.\u201d His first-inning home run was a perfect example, since he waited back and drove a fastball into the left-field berm for an opposite-field home run.<\/p>\n
In the offseason, Peralta worked almost daily with close friend Michael Brantley, who lives \u201cten minutes away\u201d from Peralta. \u201cHe\u2019s one of the best in the business at being consistent,\u201d Peralta said. Brantley called him and made the offer, which Peralta appreciated.<\/p>\n
Torey Lovullo Post-game<\/h3>\n
Lovullo praised the early results of Peralta\u2019s off-season adjustments. \u201cHe hits a ball down the left-field line for an opposite-field home run. Then he hits a hard double to the right-center-field gap on a nice, short swing. Those are the things that that I looked at today. It\u2019s something to keep building on.\u201d<\/p>\n
About Straily, Lovullo said, \u201cYou look at the line score, it was a situation where there were some early-count swings. He was putting the ball on the plate, and there were several first-pitch fastballs that (the Angels) did a nice job on. There was a point in time for a batter or two where he mixed his pitches well. \u00a0I think there’s got to be a good mixture of pitches for him that will enable him to get through those types of situations. They were all in ambush mode and jumped on him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lovullo took some positives from the 12\u20135 loss. \u201cWe picked up the baseball defensively and moved at a pretty good pace defensively. Everybody wants to know about the final outcome, but I’m not going to focus on that right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
It is often good to have games that expose problems needing work early on. That applied today with both Straily and Bryce Jarvis. Lovullo said, \u201cJarvis made some mistakes over the middle of the plate, and good hitters are gonna make you pay for those. We got to do a little bit better job altogether from a pitching standpoint, particularly Straily. Yeah, we’re here to evaluate them. We’ll be keying in on it, and I’m sure (Strom) will go back to the drawing board with them. Get that one out of the way and see what happens from here on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Looking Ahead in Diamondbacks Spring Training<\/h3>\n
Diamondbacks spring training continues Sunday, March 20. They will hold camp in the morning before a 1 pm away game against the Kansas City Royals at Surprise Stadium. Prospect Brandon Pfaadt will take the mound for the Diamondbacks against Jackson Kowar in a matchup of right-handers. Lovullo said that Josh Rojas, Pavin Smith, and Daulton Varsho, who sat out Saturday\u2019s game, will play on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Main Photo:<\/h4>\n![\"Diamondbacks](\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2022\/03\/Diamondbacks-spring-training-20220319-e1647734118512.jpg\")
<\/a>TEMPE, Ariz. (Mar. 19) \u2014 Mike Trout (27) of the Los Angeles Angels digs in against pitcher Dan Straily of the Arizona Diamondbacks in Cactus League action. The Angels won, 12\u20135. (Photo by Evan Thompson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nPlayers\/managers\/coaches mentioned:<\/h4>\n
Shohei Ohtani<\/a><\/strong>, Mike Trout<\/a>, <\/strong>Torey Lovullo<\/a>, <\/strong>Zac Gallen<\/a><\/strong>, J.B. Bukauskas<\/a>, Ketel Marte<\/a>, <\/strong>Dan Straily<\/a>, <\/strong>David Peralta<\/a>, Michael Brantley<\/a>, Bryce Jarvis<\/a>, Brandon Pfaadt<\/a>, Jackson Kowar<\/a>, Josh Rojas<\/a>, Pavin Smith<\/a>, Daulton Varsho<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks Spring Training: March 19, 2022 Saturday brought the first road exhibition game of Arizona Diamondbacks Spring Training 2022. Diamondbacks players went through more defensive drills, bullpen sessions, and live batting practice at camp in the morning. In the afternoon, a squad headed to Tempe Diablo Stadium to face Shohei Ohtani, Mike Trout, and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2901,"featured_media":53974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1071],"tags":[132,604,702,1820],"class_list":["post-53973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diamondbacks","category-mlb","tag-dan-straily","tag-david-peralta","tag-ketel-marte","tag-zac-gallen"],"modified_by":"Evan Thompson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Dan Straily pitched three innings, giving up seven runs (all earned) on nine hits. He gave up two homers while walking none and striking out three. Despite the seven runs, Straily \u201cfelt great.\u201d He continued, \u201cI came in with the mindset (to) fill up the strike zone. As Brent (Strohm, the pitching coach) pointed out to me, I did that a little too well. (There were) a lot of first-pitch hits. A lot of first-pitch hacking stuff that we did\u2019t really expect. But the goal was to throw strikes. Obviously, I wanted to put up all zeroes and wasn’t able to do that, but I filled up the strike zone. So we got that done.\u201d<\/p>\n
David Peralta<\/strong><\/h3>\nLeft fielder David Peralta had a nice day at the plate, going 2-for-3 with a first-inning homer, a third-inning double, and two runs scored. Peralta said he\u2019s been \u201cworking a lot in the offseason\u201d on his mechanics, specifically his timing at the plate. \u201cNow this hard work is paying off. First at-bat, I felt pretty good swinging at the ball, and feel like it\u2019s coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Peralta worked on keeping his hands back longer before taking his swing. He said it will allow him to \u201csee the ball better\u201d so he can be \u201cmore in touch with the fastball\u201d because \u201cthat was a little bit of my problem last year.\u201d The goal is to \u201cnot rush everything\u2026. Wait for the ball and just react.\u201d His first-inning home run was a perfect example, since he waited back and drove a fastball into the left-field berm for an opposite-field home run.<\/p>\n
In the offseason, Peralta worked almost daily with close friend Michael Brantley, who lives \u201cten minutes away\u201d from Peralta. \u201cHe\u2019s one of the best in the business at being consistent,\u201d Peralta said. Brantley called him and made the offer, which Peralta appreciated.<\/p>\n
Torey Lovullo Post-game<\/h3>\n
Lovullo praised the early results of Peralta\u2019s off-season adjustments. \u201cHe hits a ball down the left-field line for an opposite-field home run. Then he hits a hard double to the right-center-field gap on a nice, short swing. Those are the things that that I looked at today. It\u2019s something to keep building on.\u201d<\/p>\n
About Straily, Lovullo said, \u201cYou look at the line score, it was a situation where there were some early-count swings. He was putting the ball on the plate, and there were several first-pitch fastballs that (the Angels) did a nice job on. There was a point in time for a batter or two where he mixed his pitches well. \u00a0I think there’s got to be a good mixture of pitches for him that will enable him to get through those types of situations. They were all in ambush mode and jumped on him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lovullo took some positives from the 12\u20135 loss. \u201cWe picked up the baseball defensively and moved at a pretty good pace defensively. Everybody wants to know about the final outcome, but I’m not going to focus on that right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
It is often good to have games that expose problems needing work early on. That applied today with both Straily and Bryce Jarvis. Lovullo said, \u201cJarvis made some mistakes over the middle of the plate, and good hitters are gonna make you pay for those. We got to do a little bit better job altogether from a pitching standpoint, particularly Straily. Yeah, we’re here to evaluate them. We’ll be keying in on it, and I’m sure (Strom) will go back to the drawing board with them. Get that one out of the way and see what happens from here on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Looking Ahead in Diamondbacks Spring Training<\/h3>\n
Diamondbacks spring training continues Sunday, March 20. They will hold camp in the morning before a 1 pm away game against the Kansas City Royals at Surprise Stadium. Prospect Brandon Pfaadt will take the mound for the Diamondbacks against Jackson Kowar in a matchup of right-handers. Lovullo said that Josh Rojas, Pavin Smith, and Daulton Varsho, who sat out Saturday\u2019s game, will play on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Main Photo:<\/h4>\n<\/a>TEMPE, Ariz. (Mar. 19) \u2014 Mike Trout (27) of the Los Angeles Angels digs in against pitcher Dan Straily of the Arizona Diamondbacks in Cactus League action. The Angels won, 12\u20135. (Photo by Evan Thompson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nPlayers\/managers\/coaches mentioned:<\/h4>\n
Shohei Ohtani<\/a><\/strong>, Mike Trout<\/a>, <\/strong>Torey Lovullo<\/a>, <\/strong>Zac Gallen<\/a><\/strong>, J.B. Bukauskas<\/a>, Ketel Marte<\/a>, <\/strong>Dan Straily<\/a>, <\/strong>David Peralta<\/a>, Michael Brantley<\/a>, Bryce Jarvis<\/a>, Brandon Pfaadt<\/a>, Jackson Kowar<\/a>, Josh Rojas<\/a>, Pavin Smith<\/a>, Daulton Varsho<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks Spring Training: March 19, 2022 Saturday brought the first road exhibition game of Arizona Diamondbacks Spring Training 2022. Diamondbacks players went through more defensive drills, bullpen sessions, and live batting practice at camp in the morning. In the afternoon, a squad headed to Tempe Diablo Stadium to face Shohei Ohtani, Mike Trout, and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2901,"featured_media":53974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1071],"tags":[132,604,702,1820],"class_list":["post-53973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diamondbacks","category-mlb","tag-dan-straily","tag-david-peralta","tag-ketel-marte","tag-zac-gallen"],"modified_by":"Evan Thompson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>Players\/managers\/coaches mentioned:<\/h4>\n
Shohei Ohtani<\/a><\/strong>, Mike Trout<\/a>, <\/strong>Torey Lovullo<\/a>, <\/strong>Zac Gallen<\/a><\/strong>, J.B. Bukauskas<\/a>, Ketel Marte<\/a>, <\/strong>Dan Straily<\/a>, <\/strong>David Peralta<\/a>, Michael Brantley<\/a>, Bryce Jarvis<\/a>, Brandon Pfaadt<\/a>, Jackson Kowar<\/a>, Josh Rojas<\/a>, Pavin Smith<\/a>, Daulton Varsho<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Diamondbacks Spring Training: March 19, 2022 Saturday brought the first road exhibition game of Arizona Diamondbacks Spring Training 2022. Diamondbacks players went through more defensive drills, bullpen sessions, and live batting practice at camp in the morning. In the afternoon, a squad headed to Tempe Diablo Stadium to face Shohei Ohtani, Mike Trout, and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2901,"featured_media":53974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1071],"tags":[132,604,702,1820],"class_list":["post-53973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diamondbacks","category-mlb","tag-dan-straily","tag-david-peralta","tag-ketel-marte","tag-zac-gallen"],"modified_by":"Evan Thompson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}