The logos which appear on this page and in each sub-category in MLB Teams are owned by the relevant Major League Baseball entity. They have been down-loaded and reproduced with the kind permission of MLB Pressbox. There were 50,179 fans on hand to witness the Diamondbacks play their first regular season game on March 31st, 1998 at Bank One Ballpark (Colorado won 9-2). Travis Lee collected Arizona's first hit (a first-inning single), first HR, first run and first RBI. The expansion team's first victory came on April 4th, a 3-2 win over San Francisco, and on July 30th Omar Daal pitched their first complete-game shutout in a 4-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs at Bank One Ballpark. Their 3-1 win on September 4th over Houston gave the Diamondbacks their seventh consecutive victory, tying the 1961 Anaheim Angels for the longest winning streak by an expansion team.Arizona Diamondbacks 1998-
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