Arizona Diamondbacks are a professional baseball team that plays in the National League West division of Major League Baseball (MLB). The team, often called the D-Backs, plays its home games at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona.
The Diamondbacks were established as an MLB expansion team in 1995 and played their first season in 1998. The team won a division title in 1999 in only its second year of competition. In 2001, the Diamondbacks won the National League pennant and defeated the New York Yankees in the World Series. It was only the Diamondbacks’ fourth year of competition, the earliest any expansion team has ever won a World Series.
D-Back star pitchers Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling were co-Most Valuable Players of the 2001 World Series. In 2015, Johnson became the first player to represent the Diamondbacks in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. In 2023, the Diamondbacks advanced to the World Series, but lost to the Texas Rangers.
