The surprise move came on Thursday. Lefty Jeff Francis was placed on the 15 day Disabled List, Reid Brignac was designated for assignment, Rob Scahill and DJ LeMahieu were recalled, and the Colorado Rockies announced Tyler Chatwood would make Juan Nicasio's (3-1, 5.13) Saturday start, with Nicasio moving back a day to slide into Francis' slot. Eager minds anticipated the coup de gras, an ensuing announcement that actually Drew Pomeranz would ... [MORE]
The San Francisco Giants have been making a lot of errors lately. It cost them Saturday night in the 3rd inning as the Colorado Rockies beat the Giants a second consecutive night 10-2. San Francisco had taken a one run lead in the 2nd when Brandon Belt doubled with 2 out and scored on a Gregor Blanco single off Tyler Chatwood (2-0, 2.55). Charlie Blackmon led-off the 3rd for Colorado ... [MORE]
The Colorado Rockies took a 6 run lead into the 4th inning Thursday night only to see it vaporize into an 8-6 loss. They went-up 10-5 in the 6th on Friday and hung-on for a 10-9 victory as the San Francisco Giants tagged-on 4 over their final 3 at-bats. Late spring has arrived in Colorado, the pitches are flattening-out, the line-drives have a little extra zip, and the fly balls ... [MORE]
Jeff Samardzija (2-5, 3.45) won for the first time since April 1 as the Chicago Cubs defeated the Colorado Rockies 6-3 Wednesday night at Wrigley Field in the Windy City. Samardzija struck-out 7 Rockies in 8 innings, allowing 2 runs on 5 hits and 2 walks. The right-hander also delivered a 2-run homer in the bottom of the 2nd that held-up until Colorado scored off Kevin Gregg in a 9th inning ... [MORE]
It almost seems wrong, unjust, with memories of Friday, Saturday and Monday fresh in mind, but should the Colorado Rockies defeat the Chicago Cubs in the finale of their 3-game series tonight at 6:05 pm MDT at Wrigley Field in Chicago, they'll finish their 6-game trip to the midwest even-Steven at 3 wins/3 losses. The composite score of those 3 losses was 15-1. Ironically, the composite score of the 2 ... [MORE]
Carlos Villanueva (1-3, 3.93) had his handlebars twirled to perfection, up-turned expertly to frame his regal nose. The Colorado Rockies didn't care, knocking Villanueva around for 7 runs on 12 hits in 5 innings to go on and defeat the Chicago Cubs Tuesday night at Wrigley Field 9-4. Jeff Francis (2-3, 6.00) was meanwhile channeling Mark Twain: "The rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated." The left-hander limited Chicago to ... [MORE]
Those 8 runs the Colorado Rockies scored Sunday? Well that was Sunday and that was St Louis. The Colorado bats were silent again last night in a 9-1 loss to the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field in the Windy City. The Rockies faced Cy Young for the 3rd time in 4 games. Travis Wood (4-2, 2.03) played the role this time, throwing 7 shutout innings at the Hitless Wonders, who in the ... [MORE]
At the risk of upstaging someone or offending Jaredean, here are today's lineups. Righty Juan Nicasio (3-0, 4.72) faces left-hander Travis Wood (3-2, 2.33) of the Cubs. COLORADO (20-17) Eric Young (S) CF Josh Rutledge (R) 2B Carlos Gonzalez (L) LF Troy Tulowitzki (R) SS Wilin Rosario (R) C Todd Helton (L) 1B Nolan Arenado (R) 3B Charlie Blackmon (L) RF Juan Nicasio (R) P CHICAGO (15-22) David DeJesus (L) CF Starlin Castro (R) SS Anthony ... [MORE]
It's been since before Thursday's rain delay, by game time 70 hours, and 26 innings since the Colorado Rockies' Carlos Gonzalez hit a sacrifice fly that brought Dexter Fowler to the plate with the Rockies last run. Call their starts "uneven," but Jhoulys Chacin limited the St Louis Cardinals to 2 runs and Jon Garland 3 on Friday and Saturday, and the Colorado bullpen was "nails" both days. This was the formula: ... [MORE]
With his Colorado Rockies teammates pursuing a 50 AB hitless streak, Jhoulys Chacin (3-2, 2.70) decided if there was going to be any entertainment at all, it was up to him. The right hander proceeded to walk the bases full of St Louis Cardinals in the 2nd, 4th, and finally 5th innings, when the Cards broke through with 2, and went-on to beat Colorado 3-0 Saturday afternoon at Busch Stadium in ... [MORE]
