Diamondbacks Shake Up Batting Order, Perdomo Leads Off

0:00It's April 23rd, I'm Corey with The Story. This is MLB News Today, driven by AI and built for baseball fans. The Arizona Diamondbacks switched up their batting order for Thursday's series finale against the Chicago White Sox. Now Joroldo Predomo is leading off, Kettle Marte drops to second and Corbin Carroll slides to third. This comes right after a huge 11-7 win on Wednesday, where they racked up 16 hits and 11 runs. The top of the line of crushed it with eight hits, including three triples. Earlier, manager Tori LeVulo had Predomo batting third to protect Marte and Carroll by wearing down pictures. But that led to those two chasing pitches outside the zone too often. Marte at 32.3% chase rate, Carroll even higher at 34.8%. Predomo has been scorching hot lately, going 12 for 23 over his last six games with his average jumping from 0.148 to 0.260.

1:00Carroll's off to a strong start with a 1.023 on-base plus lugging, while Marte has been unlucky despite heart contact. With the team's offense now 12th and runs per game and boosted by Ildemaro Vargas' 20 game hit streak, it all hinges on this revamped top three. Keeping the fire going for real, sustained production.