The Arizona Diamondbacks fell to the Texas Rangers 7-4 on Thursday night in a game that felt all too familiar for fans who have been watching this season unfold. If you've read one Dbacks recap lately, you've basically read them all—and this one was no exception.

Zac Gallen struggled mightily, allowing seven runs over just 4.2 innings while the opposing pitcher cruised through eight frames on a mere 95 pitches. The final score actually flatters Arizona; without a ninth-inning meltdown from the Rangers' reliever, who walked the bases loaded, this would have been a lopsided 7-1 loss. Credit for those late runs belongs more to Texas's control issues than any offensive breakthrough from the Dbacks.

After a stretch where Arizona's starting rotation had been delivering quality starts, Gallen snapped that streak in disappointing fashion. He was simply too hittable, surrendering a leadoff home run to former teammate Joc Pederson on a 93 mph fastball that sat dead center of the plate. The velocity was down a full tick from his season average, and he generated just one whiff on the pitch all night. His once-dominant knuckle-curveball was equally ineffective, also producing only one swing-and-miss.

It's tough to watch Gallen, still just 30 years old, struggle so dramatically after betting on himself this season to earn a big contract. That payday now seems increasingly unlikely as his ERA ballooned to 5.65 after another clunker. This doesn't look like a pitcher who is one small adjustment away from turning things around—it looks like someone in need of a complete reinvention. Here's a sobering thought: if Corbin Burnes were ready to return tomorrow, performance-based decisions would likely cost Gallen his rotation spot.

The offense, meanwhile, continued its frustrating pattern of an ultra-aggressive approach that has plagued them all season, failing to make adjustments against a pitcher who had their number from the first inning onward.