Rockies Take 9th Straight Game With 2-1 Win Over Diamondbacks

Thank you for winning when I cannot watch.

You are awesome.

Please do it again tomorrow.

Thanks again.

Okay, so I had to run an errand after the game and just got back. Two things:

1) One of the Giants radio announcers apparently also does play-by-play for Stanford football. When I heard his voice I was momentarily confused, since the Giants played earlier, until I figured out what I was listening to.

2) Argh! On the other sports station, the local sports show was talking humidor conspiracy theories again. SO. INFURIATING. Seriously. I didn’t hear the whole conversation since I got in the car midstream. But what I did hear was ridiculous. One caller said Selig won’t do anything about it because he’s chicken. And he also said that the ball boys have two bags of balls, which I’m fairly certain is totally false. And the host (not sure who it was) clearly doesn’t know anything, since he kept saying how he was going to ask around (presumably Giants people) to find out what kind of oversight there is, if any. Which information has been out there for year.

Oh, and watch out for those in Clemson sweatshirts.

According to Dave Winfield on BBTN, the Rockies are doing this with offense. CarGo and Tulo.

I’m pretty sure we’ve got a few guys who can pitch, too. Luckily the other guys did make the point that Ubaldo is still pitching very well.

He was an unsung hero for me that year. All the people that boasted how Marquis was brilliant in hte first half of 2009 and how his ability to prevent mega long losing streaks the early part of 2009 was a key to the Rockies finding the ability to pick themselves off the mat and turn the ship around to make the playoffs… guess what, that role was old hat.

Rodrigo Lopez was that guy for Colorado for 2007. The fact he got hurt so bad he missed out on the playoffs was a shame but it did two things – it prevented him from regressing to the mean everyone expected of him and it allowed some kid named Ubaldo Jimenez a shot to join the major leagues.

I’ll always respect Lopez – no matter what uniform he wears.

I love Coors Field.
I love America.
I love the Rockies.

Huge crowd, though forced to sit on their hands most of the game by Lopez. He was really good tonight, I feared for the winning streak for most of the game. Herrera was being soundly berated by the people around me when he came up to hit. These same people were, of course, jubilant after his sac fly. So Cargo sits, Tulo is handled, but The Answer comes up big. It’s 2007 all over again. Go Rockies!!!

HAD little effect. (Dang tipos.)

keep winning guys

The first two pitching matchups:

Jimenez (18-6) vs. Ely (4-7)
Chacin (8-9) vs. Monasterios (3-5)

Appears Padilla is out for the season, and Monasterios has taken his place in the rotation.

I guess that means Kershaw in the 3rd game, but this is about the best set of matchups we could hope for.

Pip’s postgame analysis:

The pregame ceremonies were awesome, just awesome. I love this country.

Coors Field: there’s no place like it. It felt good to be home.

Yeah the wave was awful, just awful. To make things worse, their was a fan in my section explaining to his friend how he doesn’t like the National League cause the pitchers gotta hit and the AL is awesome cause of the DH. I was shaking my head the whole time, but refrained from debating.

The best way to ignore Tulo’s awful song is to cheer and scream REALLY, REALLY loud for him.

The Rockies didn’t score til I put my RALLY CAP on.

When Cargo came out to hit, chants of “MVP” arose.

My throat is hoarse.

I got chocolate stains on my Tulo jersey.

<3 <3 Huston Street <3 <3 It was the first time I saw him all year at Coors with his song and all. It was awesome. I got all excited when I saw him warming up in the bullpen. I said “C’mon Huston, you can do it!” and in unison with my sister: “You really can!” Huston…messed with my heart tonight. Love is not good for blood pressure, I’m am realizing. But he did it!!

My glasses are undefeated.

P.S. Guess what my pajamas are tonight.

looks like the ekg graph of my heart rate!

Enjoyed meeting Mondo, Muzia and AMart. Definitely a lot of fun and nice to come out with a win.

Rangers win on Rivera’s bases-loaded walk-off hit-by-pitch.

Good night, Row, and have a pleasant tomorrow!

From April to August, the Rockies are just increasing their degree of difficulty.

They’re like “What fun would it be to win 135 games a season? There’s no story there. So we’ll just play mediocre until September and then win every game. Nobody will see it coming”

THIS IS BORING

“Of Herrera’s 20 RBIs, seven have given the Rockies the lead. He also has six RBIs in his last six plate appearances with runners in scoring position. "