Rockies 4, Reds 3: Ian Stewart's late-inning home run secures victory on Labor Day
Thoughts on the game:
- Tulo may have an oblique injury or some sort of "muscular thing," but nothing official has come out yet. Please don't be a major injury.
- Ubaldo Jimenez gets credited with a "quality start" by going six innings and allowing three runs. He also struck out five. But his WPA was -0.68.
- Ian Stewart came through big time with that homer in the eighth, having stuck out thrice before that AB.
- I want Huston Street back. Franklin Morales made me nervous. Frankie also got squeezed in the strike zone a couple of times by the ump, but those high leverage index situations he was in were tense. Still, he wound up with a .168 WPA.
- Chris Iannetta made two throwouts today, but Clint Barmes helped save the second one. That one came in the top of the ninth and had Barmes missed that ball, the game would have been tied.
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Saved by Barmes for sure,
but CDI was huge. Ian was huge. The Rockies were huge. God I love this team.
"Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseballs around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball." -Pete Hamill
I don't think I should be on the roll call...
I was around to make trouble before the game started and then left.
Go Rockies!! Great win today, albeit a little tight. I want Street back.
And I really, really, really hope Tulo isn’t out for more than a couple days. That would be BAD. Horrible. Terrible.
Carlos Gonzalez is a sexy man
How goes being back in NYC?
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It's amazing.
I didn’t realize how much I missed it until I got here…classes start tomorrow and then the rat race begins. :)
Carlos Gonzalez is a sexy man
Right on. Good luck with all that.
"Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseballs around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball." -Pete Hamill
What counts as 'in the city'?
"Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseballs around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball." -Pete Hamill
The five boroughs,
though as a resident of Queens, the city is really Manhattan.
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Okay, that's what I figured were the options.
Is it a huge pain in the ass to get from one borough to another? Only time I’ve been to NY it was Manhattan and it took half an hour just to get around there, let alone to another part of the five.
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It's pretty quick
unless you’re going to the outskirts of boroughs or doing anything involving Staten Island.
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.
Well,
I got credit in the roll call, and I’m just the resident Dbacks troll.
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What if
you’re ugly, grumpy, and live under a bridge?
But seriously… it makes me laugh that the “DbacksSkins is short” jokes are now proliferating beyond the Snakepit…
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I second the
“if-Tulo’s-out-for-any-length-of-time-we’re-doomed” sentiment. That would be right about one of the worst possible things that could happen.
I love Greg Reynolds. Deal with it, suckers.
What do we consider as a significant amount of time...2 weeks....2 days?
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Radio guys
(I caught the very fun last 3 innings on XM driving back from a family outing)
said it was a lower back strain & he’s the proverbial “day to day”. Didn’t mention anything about the oblique, but maybe more info came out post-game.
If it is an oblique, that’s generally 2 weeks. I vote for lower back strain.
No records in the last 10 years should count.
Ya
So did the guys on FSRM. They said “Lower Back Strain”
Some hope?
by rockiesfan4ever on Sep 7, 2009 4:48 PM MDT up reply actions
Hehe.
Of course it would have been easier for you to type the two digit number than refer me there, but your devotion to name dropping Poseidon’s excellent articles is presumable worthwhile.
by Greg Stanwood on Sep 8, 2009 1:51 AM MDT up reply actions
I just didn't feel like looking it up myself, either
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by Andrew Martin on Sep 8, 2009 8:45 AM MDT up reply actions
WHAT??!!!!
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Apparently Ubaldo had a mild hamstring problem today...
he seemed to minimize it and didn’t seem particularly concerned.
Hopefully Tulo
is only out for a day like Holliday in 07. We all thought that would be catastrophic as well but we managed through. Ubaldo Wiil be Fine
Ubaldo is allowed a bad start
even though “a bad start” is still a quality start
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This was a fun and intense game
Yesterday was fun, but certainly not intense and I was a little worried about how the players would respond…
If both Tulo and Ubaldo responded by getting (even minor) injuries which will cause them to miss starts… Well, I couldn’t imagine a worse postscript to a great game.
Sd making it interesting in the 9th
They jut got a 2-run HR to make it 9-4
lol...great minds
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SF 9- Pads 4 top of the 9th...
hundley just hit a 2 run homer
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oh my...Rodriguez walks...
keep the rally going Padres!
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walk Headley!...keep up the good work Friars
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oh well..they gave them a scare at the end..
That Panda head is pretty funny
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What the heck is that about....
we do it all the time! lol…poor Padres…
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He walked off the field
with an injury. Looked like his back, broadcast speculated it may have been his oblique, and now we’re just waiting. More than likely it’s his lower back.
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We don't know the severity of the injury yet.
At the vesy least, I find it pretty unlikely he’d play tomorrow. We’ll probably see Barmes at SS tomorrow, and either Young or Stewart at 2B, unless they start Q at SS instead.
by Greg Stanwood on Sep 7, 2009 5:58 PM MDT up reply actions
Let's hope they aren't pulling a
Josh McDaniels…and not disclosing the severity of the injury…
(otherwise it would be considered an UPPER BODY EXTREMITY POSSIBLE INJURY)
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Drew had the worst quote of the night after the Tulo injury..
“The Rockies have been fortunate with injuries this season, except for Jeff Francis of course. " ~ Drew Gooden
….and Taylor Bucholz, Casey Weathers, Aaron Cook, Huston Street, Dexter Fowler and CarGo. Did I miss anybody?
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by Andrew Martin on Sep 7, 2009 6:07 PM MDT up reply actions
So a little off topic...but comments from Andre Ethier
after the Padres beat the Dodgers Sunday night…
“It’s always tough to play a team that it’s hard to get up for. San Diego is going through a transition period where they are a lot of young guys, a lot of unfamiliar faces. It’s not the same energy as facing, say, a San Francisco team that you’re battling for the division title. It’s not an excuse, but that’s the way it is sometimes”
So things I get from this..
1) Andre Ethier has no heart, despite his repeated attempts to kill us.
2) He seems to think SF is actually battling them for the division…math fail.
3) Rockies better not EVER show this kind of attitude toward any other team we play, no matter their record!
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With the exception of 3, I disagree.
1. Ethier is a passionate player, who is just being honest. It’s a bad attitude to have because it can get you beat (which is precisely why I don’t want the Rockies to have that angle), but it is a legitimate viewpoint.
2. He clearly referenced A team that was in the battle for the division title, not THE team that was in the battle for the division title. Just because SF came to his mind first, I really don’t take offense.
by Greg Stanwood on Sep 7, 2009 6:05 PM MDT up reply actions
I didn't take offense,
I think the Dodgers don’t see us as their competition especially since they’ve whipped us pretty good to this point.
It also seemed like he was saying, well, if we had really been trying, we could have beaten the Padres. I’m not sure if I was his teammate, I’d want to hear him say that. Maybe this will have a positive benefit for us…cause some clubhouse issues for the Dodgers…lol
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Hopefully, that will lead them to underestimate us when we overtake them for the division lead
God, I hate all L.A. pro sports organizations. A little research showed me that the Dodgers are almost as bad as the Lakers in terms of non-bandwagon fans liking them.
"I shoot so many 3's because I can't shoot 4's" -Antoine Walker
I bet that the first team that popped into his head was San Francisco.
That’s my explanation for it. The Dodgers and Giants are rivals…it’s natural for him to think of the Giants before the Rockies.
If that’s not the way it was, then that’s a shame, because I’ve been an Ethier fan since the A’s traded him for Milton Bradley and I’d hate to have to boo him MERCILESSLY (I’ll boo him as long as he’s with LA anyways….but still)…
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Why has Milton Bradley been traded for such productive players?
He’s like Congress and Zach Randolph conbined.
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by LACK on Sep 7, 2009 6:34 PM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'm not sure why everyone is defending Ethier
personally I think he’s the guy I can’t stand the most on the Dodgers. He always has this smug attitude and doesn’t seem to respect any other teams or players. I really don’t like him and feel he did it intentionally. I don’t think he has any respect for the Rox, and maybe for good reason, since they’ve beat us up, but I just don’t like his attitude. I just hope we sweep the Dodgers in that last series.
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
The ace of the Colorado Rockies, hooray

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yesssss
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This makes me happy :)
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Goooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jiiiiiiiimmmmmmiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"I shoot so many 3's because I can't shoot 4's" -Antoine Walker
By the way, Arroyo means stream in Spanish.
So we should call him Bronson Stream from now on, but we should still call JDLR his given name, as George of the Rose just doesn’t sound right.
"I shoot so many 3's because I can't shoot 4's" -Antoine Walker
OK, on a second thought, my Spanish isn't very good...
I reaaaalllllllllyyyyy hope Troy won’t be out long
"I shoot so many 3's because I can't shoot 4's" -Antoine Walker
I'd be deeply saddened
if Tulo is out for more than a week
"I shoot so many 3's because I can't shoot 4's" -Antoine Walker
You know Seth Smith is awesome
A sacrifice bunt for him is like a two run homer for a mere mortal.
Such a beast!
Gotta say, he’s just a great two-hole hitter. And great two-hole hitters get bunts down.
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Yep...you said it...
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Oh yeah, I totally jinxed Stew into hitting that homer too.
I told my friend “I’m down for some extra innings man, that would be sweet” right after the pitch before he hit it 396 feet. Epic!
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"TULO'S HURT!"
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
NO!
BEAT THE REDS TILL THEY'RE PURPLE!
Brilliant! You nailed the sig line!!
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Quote
“I’m a little sore right now, and a little tight, but at the same time, who knows?” Tulowitzki said. “[I may] wake up and feel good to go. These are important games, and I want to be in there. So we’ll see what happens. Tomorrow will tell.”
This is going to be a LONG 24 hours...for Tulo, the team and Rox fans...
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Yep
Let’s just chill and not assume the worse. Tulo’s young and tough. If it’s not severe, he’ll bounce back sooner than later. Others will just have to step it up a notch.
It's Seth Smith's world. The rest of us just live in it.
Yep...
I didn’t like seeing the word “disc” mentioned at all…Maybe he can borrow Helton’s hyperbaric chamber for the evening..:)
It seemed like a good idea at the time.....
It's September,
the Rox are in the pennant race and Tulo is the ultimate gamer. Anything short of a major back injury means he’s back in there after one, at the max, two days off. I think you’d need duct tape to keep him on the bench any longer than that.
ahh...another chapter
to add to the classic tome “1001 Uses for Duct Tape”
It seemed like a good idea at the time.....
Had a great day at the yard
Thanks to friend, had awesome Club Level seats (2nd row) just behind and to the third base side of home plate. Best I’ve ever had there. Crowd was pretty quiet until about the sixth when things started heating up. Hard to gauge Tulo’s injury from up there, but am glad Tracy erred on the side of caution here. We can’t afford to lose him for two weeks if it’s at all avoidable. Let him rest tomorrow. Defensively we’ll be ok, and someone will just have to be extra good at the plate. I’m thinking it would be a good time for a monster game from Helton.
And BTW, I did my very best to squelch the -—— Wave in the name of Rowbots everywhere. Alas, I was unsuccessful. Go Rox!
It's Seth Smith's world. The rest of us just live in it.
Something interesting
The homer Stewie hit was in the exact same spot that Votto (or Bruce, not quite sure who it was) hit Poseidon’s Fist during batting practice a year ago.
Into the bullpen? hahahaha
Ouch, that sounds painful….
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by Hollidayrain on Sep 7, 2009 11:56 PM MDT up reply actions
Good news re Dex
Dex was 4-5 with three runs, two doubles, a walk, and a stolen base tonight. Guaranteed he’ll be back tomorrow.
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Great win today
Tulo please be ok…that is all
we seem to have gotten over that HURDLE
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Quick thought
Assuming Tulo is out tomorrow – which I feel would be wise, regardless of how he feels, just as a precaution – what about starting Q at SS rather than Barmes? I figure that Barmes has “attuned” himself to 2B, and he might be more effective remaining there rather than switching over to SS. Meanwhile, Q has gotten bench time at both positions (granted, twice as much 2B as SS) and might be more effective at SS than Barmes.
mind you, I’m not really advocating this, just a thought…
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Q has been a little shaky at 2b this season..
if I remember correctly he’s had a couple of errors there.
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Checked my facts and..
Q has 1 error at each. Also FWIW Barmes has the same fielding pct at 2B as SS .979
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Not a bad idea
I think Tulo should sit no matter what today as a precaution
"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
Just throwing this out there....
Lefty going for the Reds tomorrow. EY Jr at 2B and Barmes at SS?
Not saying it’s the right thing to do, but it would the interesting thing to do.
I would love to see that
But Tracy may want to reserve his speed until late game opportunities, but now that he’s figured out how to bunt for a hit (a la Taveras at times), it would be fun to see him for a full game.
Was in the stands today
At AT&T Park. It was fun scoreboard watching in my Rox hat with the (very nice) Giants fans. What a great view. If you’ve not been – go. I was in an upper deck seat right above n
home plate and…very nice! $9.75 for a Sierra Nevada was a crime (even with the Aaron Rowand souvenir cup. And too bad the Padres didn’t have it in ’em to get a win. The Giants bullpen sucks, Penny seems pretty comfortable back in the NL.
holy crap I would never pay 10 bucks for a beer
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by Andrew Martin on Sep 8, 2009 8:46 AM MDT up reply actions
I wouldn't either,
but I wonder which Sierra Nevada it was. I’ve only tried their ESB.
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Pale Ale, most likely?
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There is
nothing awesome about Corona…
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by DbacksSkins on Sep 8, 2009 9:33 AM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
May I
recommend coffee and an ibuprofen?
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eh, hangover has a point
you’re not trying to appreciate it, just not feel like death.
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by Andrew Martin on Sep 8, 2009 10:36 AM MDT up reply actions
reccin dis
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by Andrew Martin on Sep 8, 2009 10:26 AM MDT up reply actions
I can't remember
NOT paying $10 for a beer. Maybe they’re $8 at Dodger stadium for the smalls, pretty sure at least 8-9 for the smalls at Staples too.
$4 beers at Chase Field...
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we have a winner
I’m so coming to visit now
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by Andrew Martin on Sep 8, 2009 10:26 AM MDT up reply actions
Yeah,
the last 2 seasons, the Dbacks have been really good about providing cheap options — $5 tickets, $4 beers, $2 hot dogs, $7 Dbacks shirts in the team shop, etc.
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Coors Field
has a cheap options section as well. Although I think they’re all like infant sized servings.
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by Andrew Martin on Sep 8, 2009 12:18 PM MDT up reply actions
There's also
a $15 All-You-Can-Eat section starting this season.
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