Rangers 11, Rockies 5

by Rox Girl on Mar 20, 2009 9:07 PM MDT in Rockies Game Wraps

Ryan Spilborghs and Ian Stewart each had three hits today, Spilborghs with two doubles and a single, and Stewart with two singles and a homerun, but Rockies pitching proved a letdown in the loss to the Rangers. Starter Jason Marquis allowed six runs in five innings, including two homeruns. Three of four relievers, Manny Corpas, Juan Morillo and Jason Grilli also let scores cross the plate. Huston Street managed a scoreless inning for the second day in a row.

THE BIG QUESTION: How long can we wait for improvement with these "tweaks" to his mechanics that Jason Marquis is experimenting with this Spring? Marquis did record six groundouts to just three flies besides all the line drive ropes he was giving up, and the 6/1 K/BB ratio in five innings is also something that normally should be encouraged, but there's a big problem in all the hard contact that he seems to be permitting. Is he close to breakthrough or just breaking down?

The smaller questions: We're getting closer to decision time, and those players on the edge of a roster spot need to make every at bat, every pitch count from here on out. The only players today that this really applies to were Morillo and Stewart and perhaps Omar Quintanilla (1 for 2 with a run scored). Qre Quintanilla and Stewart any closer to securing MLB jobs? Did Morillo's shaky outing, only the second time he's allowed a run to score this Spring, push him closer to the cut pile?

Wrap Rating: Wrap'ms by Tweak'ms. Maybe they can make a strap so Jason Marquis can keep track of his previous mechanics, just in case.

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What was wrong with Marquis' delivery to begin with?

Why the hell did ANYTHING need to be changed? Marquis has always been a innings-eating middle of the rotation guy. How does changing any part of his delivery change that? This better just not be covering for some kind of injury to the guy.

Dex knows.....

by The Lodo Magic Man on Mar 20, 2009 9:38 PM MDT reply actions

Well if you want anything positive from today's outing

at least he finished with two scoreless innings. Guess that’s better than getting worse as he went along.

by pedalpusher on Mar 20, 2009 10:24 PM MDT up reply actions

There's no Purple

in those wraps. It appeared as though the game went bad from the outset with Marquis not pitching well. The offense didn’t seem too bad (according to what I saw on GD) but there were a lot of Ks and popups that need to be held in check. Welcome back to form Mr. Street, this is what I expected all along. KOA tomorrow, and both KOA and FSN on Sunday. This means the season is just around the corner, and it’s about time.

"A great catch is like watching girls go by; the last one you see is always the prettiest." ~Bob Gibson
JFK

by jrockies on Mar 20, 2009 10:11 PM MDT reply actions

The offense wasn't really that great

aside from Spilborghs and Stewart. And even then, at least three of their hits were seeing eye singles. Stewart had a broken bat blooper. Harrison really had the lineup off-balance. There were very few balls that reached the barrel of Rockies’ bats.

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein

by Andrew T. Fisher on Mar 20, 2009 11:19 PM MDT up reply actions

1) congratulations on the USC win
2) condolences on tomorrow’s hang-over (just assuming)
3) are those anything like Slap/Snap Bracelets?

Rockies Mgr. Clint Hurdle on what needs improvement in 09: "Our Record"

by Redhawk on Mar 20, 2009 10:32 PM MDT reply actions

Slap/Snap Bracelets?

Isn’t that what Chris Brown wore after his incident with Rihanna?

"Never fall in or out of love too early in the Spring." ~ Tony La Russa

by Charlie77 on Mar 20, 2009 11:17 PM MDT up reply actions

"Tweaking" Marquis' delivery

scares me. Isn’t it generally a bad thing to mess with a pitcher’s mechanics when nothing is wrong? Wasn’t LaTroy Hawkins better with the Rockies because Apodaca didn’t mess with his delivery when Leo Mazzone did?

Aut Vincam Aut Periam

by PioneerSkies on Mar 20, 2009 11:07 PM MDT reply actions

Some Interesting

Here are some interesting pitching stats from ST:
1- Sinkerballer Derek Lowe is 1st in strikeouts with 17 and Aaron Cook is 8th with 15, Cook also has an ERA of 1.93
2- Matt Cain has 2 losses in 5 starts and an ERA of 7.16
3-Franklin Morales is 3rd in the league in innings pitched with 18 and he’s
4- given up 4 HR’s so far, the 4th highest number
10- Last year’s ERA leader Johan Santana has an ERA of 10.12 with a line of 4 hits 3 Runs 1 HR and 1 HBP in 2.2 innings of work
814- KC ace Gil Meche’s ranking in ERA at 12.15, one spot above Jason Hirsh’s 12.19, three spots above Brandon Hynick’s 12.27, 30 spots above Max Scherzer’s 13.50 and nine spots below JDLR’s 11.81

"Never fall in or out of love too early in the Spring." ~ Tony La Russa

by Charlie77 on Mar 20, 2009 11:47 PM MDT reply actions

This proves

that spring training numbers don’t mean too much. I would like to see some hitting stats if you could find some rankings for those too.

"A great catch is like watching girls go by; the last one you see is always the prettiest." ~Bob Gibson
JFK

by jrockies on Mar 21, 2009 12:18 AM MDT up reply actions

Hitting stats

1- Yorvit has only 1 GDP….so far
3- HR’s by Prince Fielder, Josh Hamilton, Alfonso Soriano, Gary Sheffield and Todd Helton (the Toddfather’s homerun ratio is 1:5 AB’s, Prince’s is 1:12)
5- Prince Fielder leads in HBP with 5, the Colonel has the most out of the Rockies with 2
12- Phillies 3B Pedro Feliz has gone 12 AB’s without a hit to open the spring, Rockies young C prospect Will Rosario is 0-4
13- Carlos Zambrano is 13th in OPS at 2.500 one spot above Carlos Delgado at 2.104, Jason Marquis leads the Rockies with 2.000, Spilly is slightly ahead of Helton 1.195 vs 1.192
25- Dodger prospects Matt Kemp and Blake DeWitt have 25 combined strikeouts, DEX leads the Rockies with 12

"Never fall in or out of love too early in the Spring." ~ Tony La Russa

by Charlie77 on Mar 21, 2009 12:59 AM MDT up reply actions