D'backs return home needing more than e-mails from La Russa

Arizona Diamondbacks


The Arizona Diamondbacks return home tonight after a 2-4 road trip.

The D'backs open up a seven-game home stand on Monday at Chase Field with three games against the San Diego Padres and four games against the Cincinnati Reds.

Arizona managed to split a doubleheader today with the New York Mets, winning 2-1 in the first game and losing 4-2 in the second encounter. The D'backs won the three-game series, 2-1, but lost three straight to the St. Louis Cardinals in the previous series.

Four more losses leaves them with a dismal 20-32 record and it's a sure bet that manager Kirk Gibson needs something more than a few daily e-mails from the new chief baseball officer, Tony La Russa.

Can Gibson and La Russa get the D'backs back to their winning ways? Probably not this year, but maybe those emails between the two are already discussing the 2015 season and not the 2014 campaign..

Time to bring up some fresh faces and prepare for next season. Not even the return of Casey Stengel could dig the D'backs out of the cellar in the NL West division.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a diehard fan of the Diamondbacks and I would love to see them regroup and finish with a .500 record (81-81). Wow! The D'backs need to go 61-49 to complete that scenario.

Highly unlikely!

Houston and the Chicago Cubs are in the same boat. What else is new? The Diamondbacks are better than their record indicates. They have a good mix of position players but the pitching is the worst in the league -- in BOTH LEAGUES!

I feel for the players. A 10-game winning streak would be nice. Going 4-6  or 5-5 every 10 games isn't going to get them anywhere. A crazy win streak is the ticket. I'm dreaming, but you got to start somewhere.