In 2001, Gonzalez astonished the league when he hit 57 home runs, his personal best for one season and almost twice as many as he hit in any other season.
Left-handed pitcher Randy Johnson makes a cameo appearance as himself at the Left-Handed convention selling his own line of left-handed teddy bears.
Owings was having an uneventful season until he faced the Atlanta Braves on August 18, 2007. He pitched 7.0 innings, allowing three hits and three earned runs, but his batting performance made it a career night. Owings went 4 for 5, including two home runs, scoring four times with six RBI.
July 30, 1998, Omar Daal pitched the team's first complete-game shutout, scattering four hits in a 4-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs at Bank One Ballpark.
On August 30, 2001, Finley served as a relief pitcher during a 13-5 loss to the San Francisco Giants.
Brenly replaced Buck Showalter as manager after the 2000 season and led the Diamondbacks to the World Series title in his first season as a manager.
Jackson walked eight and hit a batter on 149 pitches, the most ever for a no-hitter in MLB history.
Roughly a month after a solid performance during the 1997 World Series, left-handed pitcher Brian Anderson was the Arizona Diamondbacks first pick (2nd overall) in the MLB Expansion Draft.
On March 31, 1998, the Diamondbacks celebrated the first regular season game in franchise history with 50,179 fans overflowing Bank One Ballpark. Colorado would win 9-2, but not before Travis Lee collected Arizona's first hit (a first-inning single), first homer, first run and first RBI.
Gonzalez finished the 2006 season, his last as a Diamondback, with 52 doubles.
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