Rockies complete second straight road sweep, hang on to beat Brewers 5-4

Showing up on under “Around SB Nation”: “Ryan Braun Wears Dickhead Clothes.” What the heck is the “7th Floor”?

8 wins is incredibly exciting, though it isn’t even 5% of the season. If the Marlins and Padres can have such streaks only to fall apart, we can too. But I sure am enjoying the ride while it lasts. Currently 4.5 games out of the playoff picture

“Sorry MLB, we are “fluking” all over your pretty carpet again."

Aren’t we fixing the fluke? The Overall W-L is starting to approach the run-differential.

And man, that Peralta strikeout was indeed huge.

Also, I think you forgot to finish your thought in the first paragraph.

And that’s two days in a row. Joel, dude, more strikes.

Anyway, this is really, really fun. It’s validation for those of us (most of us here, to be fair) who were convinced this team was better than it was playing in the waning days of the Hurdle Era. And the best part, at least to me, is that it’s everybody contributing.

fixed in the story.

We still have a long way to go, folks.

Also, apparently Paul Phillips nearly got trampled in the sausage race. That was really damn funny.

The Comment of the Day links to my “Eight Straight” post? (At least it does on my ’puter.)

Falling down happy is your humble rockhead.

I just thought it was appropriate for the win, and as a reminder that our Rox are actually capable of such things. Then again, just as I had the idea, Braun went yard and I thought I’d jinxed us.

Great win, great fun on the Row whilst having near heart attacks late in the game. Only bad part is there’s no baseball to watch tonight.

Ho hum.

In Renck’s recap this evening:

“We have played more road games than anyone in baseball. Now we get a chance to go back to Coors Field for (nine games) where it can be really loud when you play well,” Tracy said. “It’s time for us to get our house in order.”

And amen to that. Time to make Coors Field a haven again.

4 days in a row, 4 saves, & had to throw a lot of pitches today, getting 2 K’s for his 2 outs.

He’s one tough player.

Here’s a Huston Street story that happens to be true & shows what a competitor this guy is.

He played football in high school, like his famous dad (James Street), the national championship QB for the Univ. of Texas.

Huston was a free safety. Not real big in high school, but a helluva athlete. His team, though undersized & not overly gifted with athletes, made it to the state football finals his senior year. He already had a baseball scholarship offer from UT (where his dad also pitched) & knew the final game would be his last time to play football.

The opposing team was from Midland. They had a running back named Cedric Benson, who was almost as big in high school as he was as an All-American at UT & in a shortened (by conduct & drug issues) pro career w/ the Chicago Bears. Benson ran over and through Austin Westlake’s (Street’s school) smallish defensive line and linebackers all afternoon long, scoring 4 or 5 TD’s as I recall. The only one who could bring him down was the free safety — Huston Street. He made something like 17 tackles, most of them one-on-one with Benson. Late the in the game, with the outcome pretty much decided, Benson broke through again & Street met him head-on at the 5 yard line. I don’t recall if he scored, but he did go down, pretty much driving Street into the turf as he did so. Street could’ve just let him go, after getting pounded all game, but he didn’t. He took Benson on, though outweighed 50 pounds or so.

Pitching 4 days in a row? Give him the ball & he’ll go out there & give it his best shot as often as you ask him to. He’s a very, very tough competitor. (And went to the same high school as my daughters, who said his younger twin brothers were just as cute as Huston was.)

If BB-ref is right, Cook now has 57 career wins. The Rockies career mark is 58, by Jason Jennings. Cook broke his career mark for innings pitched earlier this season. (MLB network noted that Cook also passed the 1000 IP mark in this game.)

…..decided to lend some moral support to PioneerSkies and head to the border tonight (just got back).

     I seriously haven’t been there in at least 4 years – it was probably only my 3rd or 4th time going in my life. Wifey went too (got something call a chicken ranchero fresco). BTW, Taco Bell still sucks – the food really is awful & the restaurant was nasty, which is surprising since it was near Belleview & Quebec. Anyway, I kinda knew it wasn’t going to be very good, but will do anything to keep the MoJo going.

…..led off with a 5 minute Rox segment on QuickPitch (their version of Baseball Tonight)