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The Evergreen Diamondbacks started the 2010 baseball season off on the right foot this past Sunday with two big victories over the Cicero Devils, but several Diamondback players were missing in action, despite their assurances to manager Sergio Senese that they would be at the game. “Everyone knows that if I don’t call you, it [...]

Diamondback season ends the way it began

The 2009 Evergreen Park Diamondback season ended Sunday night the same way it began four months ago: back-to-back losses. With the Diamondbacks taking the first game of a three game series against the Lansing Nuts, one win was needed to advance the team into the divisional finals, but as fate would have it, the Diamondbacks [...]

Diamondback Rally Falls Short

Like a great heavyweight title bout, the Evergreen Park Diamondbacks and Lansing Nuts exchanged blows inning by inning, with each team’s pitching staff on the receiving end. Trailing 7-3, the Diamondbacks mounted a late-inning comeback in the bottom of the 7th. With the bases loaded, veteran Sergio Senese sent a 2-1 fastball deep to right-center [...]

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Evergreen Park Diamondbacks Pitching Preview

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Senese Under Fire

The Evergreen Park Diamondbacks head into the 2009 baseball season with high expectations after letting the league title slip through their hands last year. But while the D-backs’ expectations are high, manager Serigo Senese has come under fire in recent months from some veteran members of the clubhouse. “We all appreciate the work that Senese [...]

Marathon Layoff Keeps D-Backs Inactive

If the Spartan invasion of Troy took as long as it has taken for the Evergreen Park Diamondbacks to play their next game, perhaps history would have been much different. Facing their longest streak of inactivity since the franchise’s creation in 1996, the Diamondbacks have played 5 games since the start of the season on [...]

D-Backs Name Sochacki Sr. Bench Coach

The start of the baseball season may still be months away but the Evergreen Park Diamondbacks announced Friday that Ed Sochacki Sr. will be joining the team in an official advisory role as Bench Coach. The elder Sochacki (pictured here with sons Thad (left) and Ed (right)) will assist the team with everything from personnel [...]

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