Jhoulys Chacin Pummels Cubs into Oblivion

TroyRenck Troy Renck, Rockies
It’s first complete game shutout at Coors Field since Aaron Cook July 1, 2008…Chacin threw 114 pitches

Anyway, great game. About as easy a win as I’ve ever seen.

He has been my favorite Venezuelan prospect in the last few years, very glad with his success, I hope he can continue.
Also, since I don’t hate you guys anymore for ending my Mets season in a painful way, I’m hopping in the Rockies bandwagon this early.
I can always say it’s because all the Venezuelans on the team :P And also, it’s impossible to not love Tulowitzki (except when he’s treating Citi Field as a little league park)

Chacin owning faces, and Iannetta owning faces.

You don’t even know.
Chacin after the game:

“When he (Iannetta) calls it, I just throw it”

Great game tonight. Student teaching means that I haven’t been able to watch many games clear through, but this has to be the most efficient game all-around in quite awhile, definitely this year.

duh.

what’s the RMN?

“The Rockies are never going to lose again”. LOL

He needs more base hits though.

Loved that Chacin went CG today. Gave the bullpen a much-needed break.

You know, this game isn’t supposed to be this easy. This ballclub has some phenomenal swag right now.

Awesomeness sauce all around. Chacin was amazing. CDI gives us enough. Man, I love this team.

Anyone else watching Dodgers-Cardinals, or just me? I might flip it off soon anyway, got to try and wrap up a home sweep of the Pirates on my MLB: The Show franchise.

2 or more runs scored and not a homer tonight? Cubs vs. Rockies.

LOLCOORZ, humidor FTW…

but I’ve been keeping up with the games and oh.MY.GOODNESS they have been awesome! I’m loving this team

Shuts down purple row in 3…2…1…

with 1500 votes the rocks are at 86% to do so, with the giants at 12.

and the ump keeps giving it to them. I think the Dodgers would be wise to swing at everything

Great to hear chacin’s changeup looks good. Scouts and Tracy have always raved about it, and if he has it to along with his other secondary stuff, things are looking up for him

There was a bowling group wearing Cubs jersey… Just had to tell them “There’s always next year”…

/checking in
//checking out

pwning faces

It’s not supposed to look that easy. I never thought for one second that the Cubs were getting back into this game once the Rox plated four on the Iannetta hit and circus Cubs defense.

Also, the Rockies have now won 7 in a row. Three more wins and we have our 5th winning streak of 10 games or more since September of 2007. I believe there have been nine total streaks if this kind in all of MLB sice that time so it would be nice if we could have half of them.

Yeah, that didn’t happen. I left work a little after 4:30, hopped on a train that left SF at 4:56, and then got off the train at my station at 8:08. Yep.

So then I watched the game and read the thread as I went. At least the Rockies won! Would have sucked if I had that commute and then they lost.

And they were leading the Cubs 26-24 at the end of the 5th.z

This team is really out playing with so much swagger right now, its almost like they are giving the finger to everyone who ever said they were just a fluke the last few seasons.

Like (screw) you for not seeing this coming.

It’s not that we’re 10 and 2. It’s that after games like this, you realize that we were 10 and 2 and we’re only getting better.

While I wait for my pictures to assemble themselves I will tell you of a city that does not deserve to be blessed by baseball.

The game started at 6:40. This pic is at 6:35.

  The folks in charge of entertaining the masses in Phoenix have their work cut out for them. Baseball at Chase does not in and of itself entertain adequately, it seems. And there does seem to be something to that.

The roof allowed the moon to be enjoyed.

 So they trot out all sorts of distractions – assorted contests like “Find The Geico Gecko”, tee shirt tosses, grocery store coupon giveaways, Big Head races, etc. – under the umbrella of “The most fan friendly ballpark in America”.
 It’s a cheese – filled circus, and it isn’t even Sharp – more like Velveeta.

No, that’s NOT “Shopped.
And the fans themselves are friendly.
Unless you’re making the wrong noises at the wrong time, and then you’re ”disturbing their ballgame."

“What is it?”
“I think it fell out of Brian’s face.”

I cannot resist exhorting my team on. And when I am alone among 50 people (some of them in black and orange) in doing so I stick out like the sore thumb I am.
Yet were I to blend I would be clapping for less than ten seconds , per one prompt.

The masses there do NOT vary from their electronically led direction.
They clap neither before nor after the prompts.
Their attention to when the prompts end is uncanny….and very sad.

The 10 or 15 rowdy drunks up in the reserved boxes tried on three separate occasions to lead the crowd in "LET’S/GO D/BACKS! God love ’em, they tried.

But the majority there would not be moved to step away from the program.
They sat mutely and waited for their prompts, refusing to step out from the established protocol

Except once.
They prompted themselves for…the wave.

I hate Chase.

I have discussions with myself where I consider just giving up on live baseball.

My conduct invariably runs contrary to my surrounding patrons, yet I cannot sit mutely while the millionaires who allow me to forget my life’s dullness cavort in front of me once or twice a year.
These are my life’s holidays, yet I feel like a trespasser in a church service.

When the money was still there I drove from Phoenix to San Francisco and had the time of my life.
That disposable income level is a thing of the past, so I am left with bleacher seats in the middle of Pleasantville.

Yes, it could be worse. I could live in L.A.

/ponders that
OK, I feel better.

But there are some similarities.
Here, they also show up in the third inning and leave in the seventh.
Of course that – snort – insurmountable four run lead was probably a motivating factor.

Tonight there was a wonderful scene at the end, something that made me rethink my blanket cynicism of the fanbase here.
There were two little guys – maybe five years old – whose family stayed. And the little guys were doing it right, or were being instructed correctly – both were flying rally caps.

The Blanks put two on, and one of ‘em took his cap off and popped it rightside out.
I pointed out to him that when it’s working you don’t change a thing, and the Moms and Pops backed it up. The little guy understood, and he and his bro hung on the railing to the end.

Despite my life alliance with SF and my disdain for 99% of superstition (I roll with the not mentioning no – nos) I sort of wish the Blanks had won, just to reinforce that superstition for the little guys.
 But you (I) can’t have everything. So I had to settle for selfish desire.

(Though I’m sure you’re all counting your Rocktober chickens already, arntcha! )