Ringo bracket: 2017 Diamondbacks defeat 1961 Twins in seven games

Game 1: Twins 6, D'backs 4
WP: Pascual (2-0)
LP: Greinke (1-1)
HR: Owings (1), Martin (1)

Game 2: Twins 8, D'backs 4
WP: Kralick (2-0)
LP: Corbin (0-1)
Save: Moore (3)
HR: Killebrew (1), Kralick (1), Ianetta (1)

Game 3: D'backs 7, Twins 2
WP: Walker (1-0)
LP: Ramos (0-2)
HR: Allison (5), Lamb 2 (3)

Game 4: D'backs 3, Twins 1
WP: Godley (1-0)
LP: Kaat (0-1)
Save: Rodney (3)
HR: Mincher (1)

Game 5: D'backs 4, Twins 0
WP: Greinke (2-1)
LP: Pascual (2-1)
HR: Drury (1)

Game 6: Twins 10, D'backs 1
WP: Kralick (3-0)
LP: Corbin (0-2)
HR: Battey (2)

Game 7: D'backs 4, Twins 3
WP: Walker (2-0)
LP: Ramos (0-3)
Save: Rodney (4)
HR: Lemon (1)

The home team won only once in the seven games, but that was enough to pull the Diamondbacks through to the third round.

Camilo Pascual outdueled Zack Greinke in the opener at Chase Field. The Twins' curveball specialist didn't allow a baserunner until a fifth-inning walk or a hit until Greinke himself doubled in the sixth. Billy Martin's three-run homer in the eighth off the Snakes' third reliever of the inning gave the Twins a 6-0 lead, which was sharply reduced in the ninth by Chris Owings' three-run shot.

Jack Kralick not only worked seven innings for the win in Game Two, he cracked a solo homer in the second. Harmon Killebrew homered in the first to give the Twins a 3-0 lead. Kralick allowed three earned runs.

The series moved to 1961 and Metropolitian Stadium, and the D'backs got their first win behind Taijuan Walker. He allowed two runs in seven innings. Jake Lamb homered twice off loser Pedro Ramos.

Arizona took advantage of Minnesota's shoddy glove work in Game Four. Two of the Snakes' three runs off Jim Kaat were unearned, and the defensive problems went beyond the three errors to catchable balls not reached. Don Mincher homered off Zack Godley for Minnesota's only tally.

Greinke allowed hits to the first two Twins batters, but A.J. Pollock gunned down Lenny Green at the plate for the first out, and the Twins got just one more hit the rest of the way. Greinke walked five and struck out eight, seven of them in the final three innings. Brandon Drury doubled, singled and homered in four at-bats.

The series returned to Arizona, and the Twins pummeled Patrick Corbin for seven runs in five innings, highlighted by Earl Battey's two-run homer in a four-run fifth. Three of the runs were unearned. Kralick allowed one run on six hits in eight innings for the win.

The climatic Game Seven lived up to its billing. Arizona led 3-0 after three and 4-1 after four, but Jim Lemon homered in the sixth and Bob Allison brought home another run with a seventh-inning sac fly. The Twins got two hits in the ninth off Fernando Rodney, but Jeff Mathis threw out Green trying to steal second, and Rodney struck out Allison to end the game and the series.

Arizona's bullpen has no restrictions going into the third round.

Projected rotation: Greinke-Ray-Corbin-Walker-(Greinke)-(Ray)-(Corbin)