Tuesday, September 24, 2024. 3:30PM MST It was a pretty quiet night in downtown Phoenix last night while the Arizona Diamondbacks were host to the San Francisco Giants. What is usually a packed area it was in resemblance to a modern-day ghost town. Stragglers passing through to get to the other side of downtown.
“It’s usually a decent crowd out here, even when they play on a Monday”, says Richard Holcomb, a Chase Field security employee of six years. “Tonight is just quiet and easy, I guess because there may be no playoffs this season for the Diamondbacks.”
With the Diamondbacks in a current 87-70 record, they are still in the last wildcard spot for the playoffs, one and a half games behind the Atlanta Braves. With five more games left in the next six days it could be a wrap for the season. “It’s going to take a lot of work and prayers for my team to pull it through, says Antonio Rivera. “I have been a fan since I came to Arizona in 2006.”
With the Diamondbacks losing the last two games hopefully they can bounce back, they will have the home field advantage for the rest of the season.
With the crowd slowly trickling out near the bottom of the sixth inning, when the Giants were up 6-2, the atmosphere felt as if the air was thin, and little was to hope for. Last year the Diamondbacks clinched the National League Championship and made their second appearance since 2001 to the World Series. Losing to their close neighbors the Texas Rangers with a final four games to one. Hopefully we can see Arizona’s finest at least make it to the playoffs and bring a little more hope to the state, if not like the saying goes, there’s always next season.
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