Diamondbacks 3, Rangers 2 • That was a motley performance. • By the bats, in particular. • The pitching wasn’t great, to be clear. • Only three runs were allowed to Arizona, which is good. • Jack Leiter, though, did that thing where his command disappears for a while. In the third inning, the first three batters he faced hit the ball hard, resulting in a homer, a fly out, and a double. A walk, a K, a double steal, and another walk loaded the bases before he got Adrian Del Castillo to pop out to Adolis Garcia to end a 31 pitch inning. • A 31 pitch inning will kind of mess with your night, and Leiter ended up going just five innings and throwing 91 pitches, 58 of them for strikes. He had as many walks + HBPs (3) as strikeouts, which isn’t ideal, and got some help from his defense

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