Game #129: Diamondbacks vs. Padres

It doesn't seem like the offense bothered to make the recent road-trip to the East coast. Will they show up again, now we're back in Phoenix?

Odrisamer Despaigne RHP, 3-4, 3.28

Josh Collmenter RHP, 8-7, 4.31

Yangervis Solarte - 3B	Ender Inciarte - CF
Abraham Almonte - LF	Cliff Pennington - 2B
Seth Smith - RF	David Peralta - RF
Jedd Gyorko - 2B	Mark Trumbo - 1B
Yasmani Grandal - C	Miguel Montero - C
Jacob Goebbert - 1B	Alfredo Marte - LF
Will Venable - CF	Jake Lamb - 3B
Alexi Amarista - SS	Didi Gregorius - SS
Odrisamer Despaigne - RHP	Josh Collmenter - RHP

The Diamondbacks will be hoping their road trip, which melted down into an ongoing six-game losing streak, hasn't followed them home to Chase Field tonight, where they open a three-game set against the Padres. There's no doubt about the cause, and it wasn't our pitching, which posted an adequate 3.71 ERA over the ten contests on the East Coast, where the Diamondbacks went 2-8. It was the ongoing struggle of the offense, which has been terrible all month, and scored a total of 21 runs on the road-trip batting .188/.256/.276 in .368 PAs.

By virtually any metric, this has been the worst spell of hitting by the Diamondbacks EVER. We've never had a collective OPS below .650 for a calendar month: for August, we're currently at .606. We've never scored less than 84 runs in a month - that was at the start of 2009, when we played only 22 games. We've already played 19 in August, and have managed only 60 runs. Here are the 10 worst months in team history, by OPS. Two of the bottom six happened this season. Tell me again, when does spring training start?