The Arizona Diamondbacks are an American professional baseball team based in Phoenix. The Diamondbacks compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. The franchise was established as an expansion team and began play in 1998. The team plays its home games at Chase Field,formerly known as Bank One Ballpark. Along with the Tampa Bay Rays,the Diamondbacks are one of the newest teams in MLB.
Donald Howard Sutton was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 23 seasons as a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers,Houston Astros,Milwaukee Brewers,Oakland Athletics,and California Angels. Sutton won a total of 324 games and pitched 58 shutouts including five one-hitters and ten two-hitters. He is seventh on baseball's all-time strikeout list with 3,574.
Harry Christopher"Chip" Caray III is an American television broadcaster for Bally Sports South and Bally Sports Southeast's coverage of the Atlanta Braves baseball. Chip is also known from his time as a broadcaster for the Fox Saturday Game of the Week and as the television play-by-play broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs from 1998 to 2004. He is the son of broadcaster Skip Caray and the grandson of broadcaster Harry Caray.
Mark Eugene Grace is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) first baseman who spent 12 seasons with the Chicago Cubs and three seasons with the Arizona Diamondbacks of the National League (NL). He was a member of the 2001 World Series champion Diamondbacks that beat the New York Yankees. Grace batted and threw left-handed;he wore jersey number 28 and 17 during his rookie season of 1988,and he kept number 17 for the remainder of his career.
The Los Angeles Angels are an American professional baseball team based in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Angels compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West division. Since 1966,the team has played its home games at Angel Stadium in Anaheim,California.
Matt Vasgersian is an American sportscaster and television host. Vasgersian is a play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Angels,as well as a studio host for MLB Network and FOX Sports. In the past,he has served as an announcer for Fox Sports' National Football League and Major League Baseball coverage,ESPN's coverage of Major League Baseball,NBC Sports' coverage of the Olympic Games,and NBC Sports' coverage of the original XFL. He formerly called play-by-play for the Milwaukee Brewers and the San Diego Padres.
MLB Network Radio is an American sports talk radio station on Sirius XM Radio that features Major League Baseball related talk shows,as well as archives and live reports about MLB and such.
Steve Physioc is an American sportscaster who has called play-by-play for various baseball,basketball,and football teams.
Victor Manuel Rojas is an American baseball executive and former broadcaster. He currently serves as the president and general manager of the Frisco RoughRiders. Rojas is best known for his time with the Los Angeles Angels as their play-by-play broadcaster from 2010–2020.
Alberto JoséCallaspo Brito is a Venezuelan professional baseball infielder who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks,Kansas City Royals,Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim,Oakland Athletics,Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Dodgers. Callaspo has primarily played third base and second base during his career.
Bally Sports West is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group,a joint venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios,and operated as part of Bally Sports,along with its sister network Bally Sports SoCal. The channel broadcasts regional coverage of professional and collegiate sports events in California,focusing primarily on teams based in the Greater Los Angeles area. Bally Sports West is available on cable providers throughout Southern California,the Las Vegas Valley and Hawaii;it is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV.
JoséManuel Mota Matos is a Dominican baseball broadcaster. He currently covers the Los Angeles Dodgers on Spectrum SportsNet LA. He formerly covered the Los Angeles Angels with Bally Sports West from 2002 until his departure in 2022. He began on the Angels Spanish broadcast in 2002 and took on various roles on the English television broadcast starting in 2007. He worked alongside Amaury Pi-Gonzalez in the broadcast booth in Spanish and alongside Mark Gubicza in English. Fully bilingual,he conducts postgame interviews and often doubles as the translator for Spanish-speaking players. He served as a pre-and-postgame analyst on Angels Live and occasionally filled in as a backup play-by-play announcer for English broadcasts. He is the son of former baseball player and long-time Dodgers coach Manny Mota.
The Lethbridge Black Diamonds were a minor league baseball team located in Lethbridge,Alberta,Canada. The team was previously known as the Lethbridge Mounties from 1992–1995 before becoming the Lethbridge Black Diamonds from 1996–1998. They were one of the first two farm clubs of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Only 16 months after Arizona was granted a major league baseball franchise,the first farm club —the Lethbridge Black Diamonds —took the field. The team started playing two years before their parent club even played a game. The team played their first game in June 1996,whereas the Arizona Diamondbacks started playing in April 1998. The team played in the Pioneer League,which is a rookie league,with a shortented season,in Minor League Baseball. Their home stadium was Henderson Stadium. In 1999,the team was moved and became the Missoula Osprey.
Major League Baseball has several blackout rules. Games are blacked out based on two criteria:
The 2009 Major League Baseball draft was held June 9 to June 11 at the MLB Network Studios in Secaucus,New Jersey.
The UCLA Bruins baseball team is the varsity college baseball team of the University of California,Los Angeles. Having started playing in 1920,the program is a member of the NCAA Division I Pac-12 Conference. It plays its home games at Jackie Robinson Stadium. The program has appeared in five College World Series and won the 2013 National Championship.
The 2012 Major League Baseball season began on March 28 with the first of a two-game series between the Seattle Mariners and the Oakland Athletics at the Tokyo Dome in Japan. On November 22,2011,a new contract between Major League Baseball and its players union was ratified,and as a result,an expanded playoff format adding two clubs will be adopted no later than 2013 according to the new Collective Bargaining Agreement. The new format was finalized for the 2012 season on March 2,2012,and will use the 2–3 game schedule format for the Division Series for the 2012 season only. The restriction against divisional rivals playing against each other in the Division Series round that had existed in previous years was eliminated,as the Baltimore Orioles and New York Yankees squared off in one of the best-of-five LDS series in the American League. The stateside portion of the regular season started April 4 in Miami with the opening of the new Marlins Park,as the newly renamed Miami Marlins hosted the defending World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals. The regular season ended on Wednesday,October 3. The entire master schedule was released on September 14,2011.
