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On March 9, 1995, the city of Phoenix was awarded the Arizona Diamondbacks franchise for play beginning in the 1998 season, along with plans for a new retractable-roof ballpark, Bank One Ballpark (renamed in 2005 to Chase Field) to be built in an industrial/warehouse district on the southern edge of downtown Phoenix.

The name "Diamondbacks" was the winning choice in a name-the-team contest....First prize was a pair of lifetime season tickets awarded to the person who submitted the winning entry.

The Diamondbacks' first major league game was played against the Colorado Rockies on March 31, 1998, at Chase Field (then known as Bank One Ballpark). The Rockies won with over 50,000 fans were in attendance.

By the 2004 season, however, the Diamondbacks had dropped to a dismal 51-111 record, the worst in Major League Baseball that year, despite Johnson pitching a perfect game on May 18 of that season. Brenly was fired partway through the season and was replaced on an interim basis by coach Al Pedrique. Following the 2004 season, the Diamondbacks also hired former Seattle Mariners manager and Giants catcher Bob Melvin became the new manager after a ten-day tenure for Backman.

The Diamondbacks, led by Melvin, finished the 2005 season with a disappointing record of 77 wins and 85 losses. However, this was actually good enough for second place in the woefully weak NL West, five games behind the San Diego Padres.

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