For the second time in three games, Arizona Diamondbacks catcher James McCann was tasked with cleaning up the final inning of a brutal blowout loss to the Milwaukee Brewers.

The Diamondbacks have had to go to their veteran catcher four separate times this season. Four times has a game gotten so far away from Arizona that it was more beneficial to trot out a position player than burn an arm out of their taxed bullpen .

Manager Torey Lovullo said he hates that harsh reality.

"I hate having a position player pitching games. I do not like it at all," Lovullo said to D-backs.TV's Todd Walsh following Thursday's loss. "Probably one of my least favorite things in baseball."

"But when you ask a position player to go out there and give you that extra inning so you're all gassed up for the next city... it was great. It was a fantastic job.

"He never bats an eye. I can cold call him and have him go in a game without stretching, never blinks. I can ask him to pitch. I can ask him to do anything.…