Dodgers 14, Rockies 2: Rockies Flattened under LA Hit Barrage

by Jeff Aberle on Apr 19, 2009 5:27 PM MDT in Rockies Game Wraps

Not much went right today for the Rockies, save for home runs from Brad Hawpe and Chris Iannetta in the sixth inning, as the Rockies fell 14-2 to the Los Angeles Dodgers. With the win LA completed their sweep of Colorado.

The main damage from the Dodgers came in the fifth inning, where the Boys in Blue extended a 4-0 game to 11-0 thanks to a grand slam from Matt Kemp (one of two HRs for Kemp) and a hit parade mostly against the hapless Matt Belisle.

Ubaldo Jimenez had a line of 4.1 IP, 7 H, 7 R, 4 BB, 3 K. He never really seemed comfortable today, and the Dodgers were hitting him solidly. However, Matt Belisle was much, much worse. He came in with the bases loaded and one out in the fifth, and promptly gave up the aforementioned grand slam, followed by four more hits. He faced six men and gave up five hits and four runs.

To be honest though, no Rockies pitcher did well today. The Dodgers pounded out 19 hits (6 doubles and Kemp's 2 HRs among them), hitting everyone from Jimenez to Manny Corpas and Huston Street hard.

As you can see from the graph below, the Rockies were out of the game by the time the sixth inning rolled around.

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via www.fangraphs.com

Rowbot Roll Call--Thanks to those who stayed with me today (almost 700 total posts from 32 users) despite the lousy performance we got from the Rockies:

biondino, Jabberwocky, Poseidon's Fist, Rox Girl, The Lodo Magic Man, Rockie4Ever, WolfMarauder, free7694, TuLoRocks2008, MohrPlease, moomacher, NYCskibum, RockiesMagicNumber, germanrockie, wolf213, Narcoleptico, Redhawk, Axion, Teekalong, Silverblood, Chrysicat, djmbluemoon, Charlie77, pierzynskirules, TehChamp, PioneerSkies, blooming rock, RyanBuff, DeepPurple, Yokel, chem, 4thturn

RMN had 174 of the 680 posts during the game.

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FanGraph flatline

never a good thing

Aut Vincam Aut Periam

by PioneerSkies on Apr 19, 2009 5:31 PM MDT reply actions

Unless you're winning.

by Brendan Scolari on Apr 19, 2009 6:02 PM MDT up reply actions

Why

Did we choose to designate Morillo for assignment to bring up Belisle again?

grr....im tough

by xxxpickemgenius on Apr 19, 2009 5:52 PM MDT reply actions

Because TPTB went into ST knowing someothing would have to be done about Morillo.

They just never considered “making the team” as one of the options, andf still somehow never considered this even when he was actually ON THE TEAM. They sent up Morillo thinking it’d give them more time to find trade partners. They never actually considered that, you know, since he WAS on the team, they might as well keep him there until they found a trade partner, or they reached April 21 and had to bring Morales up.

by Greg Stanwood on Apr 19, 2009 6:54 PM MDT up reply actions

I'll tell why

Because when the Rox had the chance to get good pitching coaches they wimped out

by indianrox on Apr 19, 2009 6:13 PM MDT reply actions

How does a pitching coach not make Baldo leave it up?

Apodaca seemed to be a great pitching coach in Game 2 vs Dan Haren.

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by Andrew Martin on Apr 19, 2009 11:33 PM MDT up reply actions

hmmm....

it looks like the fangraph dipped below the 50% line to favor us for an at bat. so, we have a chance of winnning the game, and we blow it. Great going, boys.

seriously now, the game was just pathetic. I’m not screaming the sky is falling or anything, but we’ve got to get it together. I don’t care if LA is a good team. I want to see a W!

by Rockie4Ever on Apr 19, 2009 6:59 PM MDT reply actions