PHOENIX — The Arizona Diamondbacks spent the season watching one player after another go down with injury. They were sellers at the trade deadline, and calls for manager Torey Lovullo's job have been ringing for months.

But one of the defining characteristics of the Diamondbacks under Lovullo has been their resiliency. They showed it during a World Series run two years ago, at the end of last season's near miss, and it's been on display again this month.

“We had every right to feel sorry for ourselves,” Lovullo said after Arizona's 9-2 win over Philadelphia on Sunday. “We had every right to say, you know, why us? Let’s chalk it up to a learning experience and go here next year — but that clubhouse did not allow that to happen.”

The Diamondbacks had every reason to pack it in as injur

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