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World Series titles (1) | 2001 | ||
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Principal owner(s) | Ken Kendrick[7] | ||
President of baseball operations | Mike Hazen | ||
General manager | Mike Hazen | ||
Manager | Torey Lovullo | ||
Mascot(s) | D. Baxter the Bobcat | ||
Website | mlb.com/dbacks |
The Arizona Diamondbacks (colloquially the D-backs) are an American professional baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. The Diamondbacks compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National League (NL) West Division. The franchise was established on March 9, 1995, and began play in 1998 as an expansion team. The team plays its home games at Chase Field. Along with the Tampa Bay Rays, the Diamondbacks are one of the newest teams in the MLB and are the youngest team to win a World Series.
After a fifth-place finish in their inaugural season, the Diamondbacks made several off-season acquisitions, including future Hall of Fame pitcher Randy Johnson, who won four consecutive Cy Young Awards in his first four seasons with the team. In 1999, Arizona won 100 games and their first division championship. In 2001, they won the World Series over the three-time defending champion New York Yankees, becoming the fastest expansion team in major league history to win the World Series and the first and only men's major professional sports team in the State of Arizona to win a championship. 22 years later, they would return to the World Series, only to lose to the Texas Rangers in five games, thus earning the Diamondbacks their first World Series loss in team history.
From 1998 to 2023, the Diamondbacks had an overall record of 1,998–2,112 (.486).[8]
Fresh off the 2023 postseason, the chaos continues for the National League Champion Arizona Diamondbacks as they unveil four new uniform designs for the 2024 season, featuring Sedona Red and fan favorite, Teal as primary colors; and the return of the Off-White color scheme for the Home Uniform, the original "D" logo and the "Diamondbacks" wordmark. The uniforms reimagine tradition, while introducing a new age of Diamondbacks baseball.
ARLINGTON -- The group from Arizona proudly calls itself the "Answerbacks," and after that Game 1, the Rangers might have to come up with something thematically catchy of their own.