Eugenio

Suarez

Suarez will make $15 million. It’s been a significant couple of days for the Diamondbacks now that Suarez and Jordan Montgomery will officially be back with the team. Suarez hit .256 with 30 home runs and 101 RBI in his first season with Arizona. He originally signed a seven-year deal with the Reds in 2018 and will be a free agent next offseason.

Suárez went 3-for-5 in the contest. He was able to reach a couple milestones in the process, as the homer was his 30th of the year, and he reaches 100 RBI for the third time in his career. After a very slow start, Suárez was able to slash .256/.319/.469, and he has an outside chance of playing in the postseason; depending on the results of the Mets/Braves doubleheader Monday.

The game-ending hit to right likely would have been caught under normal circumstances, but the outfield was playing in with the bases loaded and none out in a tie game. Arizona overcame an 8-5 deficit to win this game, scoring two runs in the seventh and one in the eighth. The Brewers scored twice in the 10th, but the Diamondbacks rallied off Jared Koenig in the bottom of the inning. Suárez wound up with three RBI on the day. He’s at 95 for the year, and it looks like he’ll reach 100 for the third time in his career. It was hard to imagine this coming when he finished June with 32 RBI.

Suarez has 28 home runs on the season. He hit a solo shot off Cody Bradford in the second inning and added another solo blast off Owen White in the seventh inning. Suarez has been on fire at the plate lately. He’s 20-for-45 (.444) with eight home runs and 13 RBI over his last 12 games. Suarez is hitting .258 with an .808 OPS and 92 RBI on the year.

That would usually make a player his team’s offensive star for the night, but the guy hitting behind Suárez supplied three homers in this one. It helped Suárez score four runs for the second time in six weeks as well as the second time in his career; he previously did it in his three-homer game July 30 against the Nationals. Suárez’s homer off Josh Hader was his 26th, and it gave him his third 90-RBI season.

Suárez knocked a base hit to lead off the second inning and scored on a single by Kevin Newman. He later led off the sixth inning with a solo homer off Yusei Kikuchi, already his third of the month. The 33-year-old third baseman is hitting .244/.314/.458 with 25 homers and 88 RBI across 561 plate appearances.

Suárez led off the second inning with a solo blast off Hayden Birdsong. After drawing a walk in the third inning, he doubled in the eighth before scoring on a single by Corbin Carroll. The 33-year-old slugger is up to 24 homers while slashing .243/.313/.456 with 87 RBI across 549 plate appearances.

Suárez has three homers in four games and is up to .242/.309/.449 for the season. We’ll never know, of course, but we do wonder what his numbers would look like right now if the Mariners had kept him. He’s currently batting .257/.319/.491 at Chase Field, compared to .221/.294/.390 in road games, and Seattle has been the league’s most difficult environment for hitters this year. Suárez’s exit velocity stats are actually a little worse this year than they were when he hit .232/.323/.391 for Seattle last year.

Suárez opened the scoring in the contest with an RBI single in the second inning that plated Randal Grichuk. He then extended the Diamondbacks’ lead to 9-0 with a 426-foot solo blast off of Justin Wrobleski in the third inning. The 33-year-old slugger finished the afternoon 2-for-4 with a pair of runs scored and is now hitting .238/.306/.438 with the aforementioned 22 long balls and 85 RBI on the season.

Suárez hit a two-run blast off Anthony Banda in the bottom of the ninth and got the Diamondbacks to within a run at 10-9. Arizona would get no closer, but Suárez did his part with the homer and another RBI in the first on a sacrifice. Because of his contact issues Suárez is always going to be hot-and-cold, but the overall numbers always look right around the same.