Rockies End 1st Half in Dramatic Fashion, Defeat Braves 8-7

i said it early on in the thread haha big time win rockies

and Chacin has gone one inning with 2 K’s and a walk of EY Jr so far haha

listened to the game on the radio while boating around. Offense and Bullpen executing in the pinch…gotta love it.

Heh, fell asleep in the sun listening to Hammel struggle, but I woke up for the good part :)

You gotta wonder their choice of 9th inning pitchers though.

What a huge win today. I switched channels at 7-3, which always works. Rox always seem to rally when I’m not watching. So I miss Seth’s bomb, but switched back in time enough to catch Spilly’s double and the rest. I tell you, I was screaming “Run like a *%^$# Seth!” at my TV when Brad smacked that double. What an exciting way to end the first half. A 6-4 home stand is hardly what we were hoping for, but the positive aspects of this rally-for-a-win kind of changes the dynamic. Really nice way to wind up. Go Rox!

my internet cut out on me right after I posted the overflow thread and hadn’t come on 2.5 hours later.

I had to go somewhere else with internet to write the recap. Stupid Comcast.

My brother came home just in time to see the Braves’ awesome fielding on Barmes’s bleeder through the hole. We both started laughing hysterically at the Braves looking like a bunch of Little Leaguers in the field.

This is probably the best come from behind win this season based on the FanGraph’s. I looks like the Braves were about a 95% chance of winning in the 7th inning and our guys pulled it out. I have to listen to them on the radio, and I was very excited. Great game.

Fitting that Brad would get the walk-off hit, too. Get some good vibes for the All-Star Game!

Someone please remind me why on earth we like CarGo over Smith?

wrap is so great, 13 others decided to retweet this (the two others being the PR twitter feed and Rox Girl’s one).

… and a 42% chance of making the playoffs, much higher than last time,

My dad and I were much ranting verbatim with the thread for the first few innings-I had been telling my family that Seth Smith should be starting for weeks now, and I thought all my faith had been misplaced.

But what an exciting comeback! Great game for our bullpen, and it was nice to see our clutch hitting revive itself as the game went on.

This was what the team needed as far as a confidence-booster going into the break! As fun as this was, Rockies, I’d appreciate it if you’d win the next game I go to by 10 runs or so-these comebacks aren’t good for my heart.

These are the best kinds of wins for a ballclub. Everybody has to stay in the game, and it helps show them that you are never out of it.

As a high school and competitive club coach, these games are the best to coach, and they are the worst to coach. It’s really an emotional roller-coaster. Of course, my little-leaguers throw the ball better than the Braves infield, so I can only imagine what Bobby Cox was thinking.

As an aside, is it just me, or do the Giants never play good teams? I think that their schedule is flawed. Every time you look at the scoreboard, they’re playing San Diego, Washington, Pittsburgh, NY Mets… I thought that they had to play every team a few times.