Arizona Diamondbacks, additionally called D-backs, American expert baseball establishment situated in Phoenix that plays in the National League (NL). In 2001, in just their fourth season in Major League Baseball, the Diamondbacks won the World Series.
The Diamondbacks were established in 1998 as an extension establishment, alongside the Tampa Bay Devil Rays (presently known as the Tampa Bay Rays). In their first season, the Diamondbacks completed rearward in their division. The group included free specialist pitcher Randy Johnson before the 1999 season, and he—alongside another new obtaining, Luis Gonzalez, and remains the third baseman, Matt Williams—drove the Diamondbacks to a quick improvement as they dominated 100 matches and earned a postseason compartment (a first-round misfortune to the New York Mets). At the point when Curt Schilling went to the group during the 2000 season and joined Johnson in the beginning pivot, the Diamondbacks bragged the top pair pitchers in baseball, and the couple was at their generally predominant in 2001. That year Johnson and Schilling completed first and second in deciding in favor of the Cy Young Award (offered every year to the association’s best pitcher) while driving Arizona to its subsequent division title. The group at that point progressed to its first World Series, where it crushed the New York Yankees in a sensational seven-game arrangement behind co-Most Valuable Player exhibitions by the two-star pitchers.
The Diamondbacks again progressed to the postseason in 2002, however that achievement was trailed by a brisk plunge into the divisional basement as Arizona posted a 51–111 record in 2004. The group exchanged away both Schilling (2003) and Johnson (2005; however he came back to Arizona from 2007 to 2008) and endeavored to remake around youthful position players and predominant pitcher Brandon Webb. That center drove the D-backs to a second excursion to the NL Championship Series in 2007 (a misfortune to the Colorado Rockies), and a fundamentally redone squad again came to the postseason in 2011, where Arizona lost in the divisional round. Arizona at that point rolled out five sequential nonwinning seasons before the group, in 2017, out of the blue added 24 successes to its earlier year’s aggregate and qualified for the end of the season games (another misfortune in the divisional round). The group dominated only 82 matches in 2018 and missed the postseason.
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