No cooling down the Rockies as they roll out of the All-Star break, beat Padres 10-1.
by Rox Girl on Jul 16, 2009 11:34 PM MDT
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PrintThe Rockies sent a message to the two NL West teams ahead of them that there will be no letting up this season, as they clobbered the San Diego Padres to gain some ground.
Dexter Fowler hit a key two out, two run single in the fourth inning to break a one to one tie, and the Rockies offense took off from there. Clint Barmes and Seth Smith each hit home runs. Todd Helton went four for five with two doubles (for a career total of 498 now) and every Rockies starter had either at least one RBI or run scored in the 10-1 romp over the San Diego Padres.
Aaron Cook battled his way through six innings, and though he still showed some of the command woes that had affected his previous two outings, he also displayed some tenacity to get through several tough jams and finished with a season high 8 strikeouts. The last time Cook struck out eight was June 20, 2007 against the Nationals.
Matt Daley and Manuel Corpas, who was making his return to the Rockies from the disabled list, held serve for the final three innings. The Rockies with the win improve to 48-41 and climbed to within eight games of the division leading Dodgers and one and a half games of wild card leading San Francisco. This was the most lopsided win for the Rockies since defeating the Angels 11-1 on June 22, let's hope the team makes sure not to have a similar let down in the remainder of this series that it did in that series just up the 5 freeway in Anaheim. The Padres and Rockies continue their four game set tomorrow night.
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1500 comments in the two threads, it was quite a night.
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Post-game interview:
“Seth Smith is pushing the envelope. At this point in the season, with the way he’s playing, I need to find him playing time. I can’t ignore it, no way.” – Jim Tracy
At this moment,
I agree with Tracy. It’s going to take away time from Spilly, CarGon, and possibly Dex, but you have to get a hot hitter in the lineup until he cools down. Well, you do if you want to make a run out of this thing.
-Joe
That's good to hear
It’s kind of ironic that he’s been thrust from a bench role to the #3 hitter lately…HR in consecutive games from that slot aren’t hurting the case. I was not into Smith at all until looking closely last offseason, but I love me so Dixie.
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Jul 16, 2009 11:42 PM MDT up reply actions
Last weekend...
Smith batted eighth on Saturday night and third on Sunday (when Helton was ill). Pretty unusual for back-to-back games. No telling what his ideal slot is, maybe sixth behind Tulo. Regardless, it’s welcome news that Tracy realizes the value of a torrid hitter.
Higher in the order
as long as he continues to hit and draw walks. You could then move Barmes down.
Leave Dexter alone! You're lucky he even performs for you!
Barmes benefits hugely from being in the 2 hole.
If we move him down to 8, we won’t get any production out of him, as the pitchers won’t need to pitch to him, and can just easily abuse the hole in his swing.
by Greg Stanwood on Jul 17, 2009 9:38 AM MDT up reply actions
You were the one staunchly maintaining that spot in the batting order shouldn't matter ;-)
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Jul 17, 2009 11:25 AM MDT up reply actions
Why is it a choice between #2 and #8?
He can’t bat 7th? If Smith maintains a .380-.400 OBP, you’d think you’d prefer him to be up before the power hitters, and earlier in the order to get him more at bats. Whereas Barmes’s relative strength is his power and relative weakness is his OBP.
Leave Dexter alone! You're lucky he even performs for you!
That was the most fun thread all year. We're such nerds, in an awesome way.
I’m so glad our bats are back! Well, it is the Padres we got all those runs against, but still.
Cookie managed to work his way out of some crazy situations, that was nice to see. And Corpas seems to be pitching without pain, always a good thing.
If the rest of the season goes like this, it’ll be a fun three months, to say the least.
We are awesome nerds.
Though I feel kinda bad for hijacking the game thread, as it were.
Great start the the trip.
Nerd hijacking....
gotta love it
"Man, this is baseball, you gotta stop thinking! Just have fun."
The Sandlot (1993) – Benny Rodriguez (Mike Vitar)
by AtkinsandTulofan on Jul 16, 2009 11:53 PM MDT up reply actions
I can't help but feel partially responsible for all this nerd talk :)
+100
"Man, this is baseball, you gotta stop thinking! Just have fun."
The Sandlot (1993) – Benny Rodriguez (Mike Vitar)
by AtkinsandTulofan on Jul 17, 2009 12:30 PM MDT up reply actions
Great to see some offense right away
and we didn’t even have our best hitter in the lineup. Also nice to see the Dodgers get shutout. The day couldn’t have gone any better, really.
I just read the entire game thread, all 1600 comments or whatever
It took me about half an hour and now I’m going to be late for work, I didn’t stop laughing most of the way through. This is such a good site
Sounds like there was a sizeable Rockies fan contigent in SD
I am shocked, I tell you, SHOCKED, that we beat a bad team in the fashion we’re supposed to. Hopefully it keeps up.
I love Greg Reynolds. Deal with it, suckers.
This was probably the best gamethread I've ever been a part of.
In my entire life. Thanks for making it happen everyone!
"There are only two important things in life: baseball and breathing. But at least you can survive without breathing for 3 minutes."
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Awesome thread
I’m not part of a lot of them, but that was by far the best one that I’ve been a part of.
"Any newspaperman who speaks of the 'music' of rolling presses is either faking or he has had so much to drink that he will next sentimentalize appendicitis."
-- Roger Kahn
Great game Rocks!
we are now 23-5 when Cargo plays….and hey he got 2 hits maybe he will turn the corner….but how do you not start Smith now….man so many good Outfielders….love itt
we seem to have gotten over that HURDLE
CarGo has had at least four multi-hit games where we've hoped he turns it around.
Then he goes 0-4 with 3 Ks the next evening.
I’ll obviously give credit to CarGo for being productive yesterday. But he’s gotta keep it up. Though, truthfully, the fact that we win at a rate of nearly 5 times greater with CarGo starting does kind of suggest even when he’s not being productive, he’s not costing us too much.
by Greg Stanwood on Jul 17, 2009 9:41 AM MDT up reply actions
yea was just saying that record with him there
is a good luck charm…kinda like Fogg once he came back we started winning again and now Herges back maybe more good luck….even though they aren’t big producers, there presence for some reason makes us play better lol
we seem to have gotten over that HURDLE
by TuLoRocks2008 on Jul 17, 2009 9:48 AM MDT up reply actions
I've got to believe our 23-5 streak has got to coincide with something other than when Carlos plays.
Not sure what it is but I don’t think he’s the reason.
"I've had pretty good success with Stan Musial by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third." - Carl Erskine
by pedalpusher on Jul 17, 2009 10:17 AM MDT up reply actions
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