Starting Five is our wrapup of the previous day's baseball action, with a quick nod to what is ahead.You Oughta Know ...
This A.J. Hinch thing has not yet worked for the Diamondbacks.
Hinch, who moved from the front office to the dugout to replace the fired Bob Melvin, is 1-3 as Arizona's manager. And the D'backs have allowed 28 runs in the four games.
Almost half of those came in Monday's 13-5 loss to the Reds, a game that got so out of hand that infielder Josh Wilson pitched the top of the ninth. Cincinnati set season highs in runs and hits (18).
And the Diamondbacks didn't play very crisp baseball.
In the first inning, the Diamondbacks failed to cover second base, allowing Jerry Hairston Jr. to stretch a single into a double without a throw.From the Trainer's Room ...
The Chase Field crowd of 17,640 erupted into boos in the sixth, when Joey Votto scored on a wild pitch by Bobby Korecky and Brandon Phillips raced from first to third while catcher Chris Snyder tried to find the ball.
Josh Hamilton is expected to play for the Rangers Tuesday night after a stint on the disabled list with a strained rib-cage muscle. Texas was 9-4 while Hamilton was out, moving into first place in the NL West.
"I'm done sitting," he said. "There's a lot of time left to have a good year."Numbers Game ...
Washington's Ryan Zimmerman extended his hitting streak to 29 games with a first-inning single in San Francisco. That's the longest hit streak by a third baseman (playing the position in every game) since George Brett's 30-game hitting streak in 1980.
In Their Own Words ...
"We want to see how it is tomorrow and the next day, because I don't want to get ahead of ourselves too much. As much as I like to play and as much as I've tried to play with it, if it makes sense and it's the best thing, we will consider it [the disabled list]. But we'll take it one step at a time." – Mets first baseman Carlos Delgado, who missed five games earlier in the season with a sore right hip, then returned for seven games and now is down again.
Advance Scouting ...
Last year's most formidable 1-2 punch reunites tonight in Toronto, but this time as enemies. Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay faces his teammate from last year, Yankees right-hander A.J. Burnett (7:07 PM, ET). Halladay is 15-5 in his career against the Yankees, including a 12-2 mark in his past 18 starts. Burnett has faced Toronto once in his career, in 2001 while with Florida.
