Rockies 4, Rays 3: Rockies Win 13th out of 14, Take 4th Straight Series
by Jeff Aberle on Jun 18, 2009 6:17 PM MDT
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The sun rises in the east, sets in the west, and the Rockies win. Of late, these three maxims have been true very often. Behind another quality start, this time from Ubaldo Jimenez (6.2 IP, 1R, 6H, 7K) Colorado won their fourth straight series with a 4-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays.
Jimenez improved to 6-6 with the win and Matt Garza took the loss, falling to 4-5 on the year. The win moved the Rockies to .500 (33-33) for the first time since April 15th (when they were 4-4) and improved their record in one-run games to 6-10.
The Rockies used three home-runs in the game to tally the victory. Clint Barmes hit a two-run homer (7) for the Rockies in the third, immediately followed by Todd Helton's 318 four-bagger--placing him 100th in MLB history. Carlos Gonzalez completed the Rockies' power surge with his first MLB home-run of 2009 in the fourth inning--and it's a good thing, since Huston Street needed every insurance run he could get to record his 15th save in 16 opportunities (giving up two in the ninth on a Ben Zobrist single).
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yay
.500
YAYYYY
if you're reading this, it means my undying support for your team will result in its failure.
That was fun.
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Dangit... I had to miss it
Stupid having to fax a change of address form to the board of law examiners when I don’t have a fax machine…
Was out playing tourist today
Got home at the top of the 8th. Just in time for the drama. But, yay. Another W for our Rockies. Being “perfectly average” never looked so good! Now, we plunder the Pirate ship for gold doubloons and greater treasure. Namely: more Ws. Go Rox!
And how far back are we now?
Whoah, I was just wrapping up the wrap and find one already up.
Go figure. Serves me right for missing the schedule today.
I'll just add the extra points I had here, so I don't feel too bad for rushing through the work when I got home.
The Rockies continue to roll through the interleague portion of the schedule and are using some built in advantages over AL teams that the rest of the NL doesn’t have to make up a lot of ground, for instance,
1. AL pitching is usually built around top notch curveballs which won’t be as effective at Coors Field
2. The Rockies have good hitting pitchers
3. Quality bench bats that are erstwhile starter quality to minimize the usual AL DH advantage
The Rockies 7-2 Interleague record is the best in the NL, tied for second best in the majors with the Twins (the Angels, who the Rockies play next week, have MLB’s best mark at 8-1). In another good sign of the past repeating itself, the Rockies used a similar stretch in 2007 to stay in the thick of things that season before the late surge pushed them in.
The other point was a note that Helton’s HR pushes him past a tie with George Brett for #101 on MLB’s all time list and into a tie with Roy Sievers for #100. Cecil Fielder and Vinny are the next up on the list.
Thanks for the added points
Congrats to Todd
"We made too many wrong mistakes." ~Yogi Berra
"The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all." ~Lou Gehrig
JFK
Roy Sievers
Now there’s a name most on this site won’t recall.
Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. ~Bruce Catton
Never watched that show so I couldn't tell you.
Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. ~Bruce Catton
by pedalpusher on Jun 18, 2009 10:00 PM MDT up reply actions
I didn't see your post in the game thread about doing it later...
so I whipped something up quickly. Hope you don’t mind too much.
Eschew Obfuscation!
Nationals have won the series at yankee stadium hahah
Go Nats!….but anyway Go Rockies great series!….Nice to see them grind out these last 2 wins after getting blown out in game 1
we seem to have gotten over that HURDLE
Yankees beat the Mets
Therefore, Nationals > Mets?
by KindredSprites on Jun 18, 2009 7:41 PM MDT up reply actions
Are they on their way?
We took a series from the Yankees in 2007 before we made the playoff run. Go NATS.
"We made too many wrong mistakes." ~Yogi Berra
"The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all." ~Lou Gehrig
JFK
we swept them
The Rockies need some oldschool purple/white striped high socks. The team’s problem is it’s lack of swagger. I feel strongly that these socks will provide the swagger necessary to tap the potential that are the Rockies.
yep swept em
and we were over .500 by then not a thousand games under haha
we seem to have gotten over that HURDLE
by TuLoRocks2008 on Jun 18, 2009 8:02 PM MDT up reply actions
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Kind of sums it up:
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On an unrelated note
Brandon Webb’s bullpen session for tomorrow was canceled. I’m sure Bradley will be sad.
Just watched the condensed game on MLB.tv and...
I was impressed with Tulo’s hustle on his double followed by a stolen 3rd base. Nice to see him forcing the issue.
Check out my Rockies comic strip at:
Rock Drive 1.4
He's been doing
that a lot lately and I like it too. The only problem is that he’s done this a couple times and run into some costly outs. But the overall aggressiveness is good to see, now add a little bit of smarts to it and we have a ballplayer on our hands.
"We made too many wrong mistakes." ~Yogi Berra
"The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all." ~Lou Gehrig
JFK
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