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Rockies 10, Dodgers 0: Francis Masterful, Rox Bats Destroy Blue Bullpen

By Andrew Martin
DENVER, CO - AUGUST 27: Josh Rutledge #14 of the Colorado Rockies hits an RBI single during the sixth inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Coors Field on August 27, 2012 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images)
DENVER, CO - AUGUST 27: Josh Rutledge #14 of the Colorado Rockies hits an RBI single during the sixth inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Coors Field on August 27, 2012 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images)
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After this weekend of the drunken, frivolous acquisitions, there was no telling what was going to happen when Josh Beckett took the mound in Coors Field for the first time as a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

I personally cannot imagine it going better.

Beckett was... well, he wasn't bad, but he wasn't particularly good. In beautiful poetic justice, Tyler Colvin hit a home run to lead off the Rockies' half of the 1st inning. Beckett settled down well enough for the Dodgers, allowing 3 runs on 7 hits with 6 strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings.

Francis, on the other hand, dealt quite handily with the Dodgers, punching out 6 while allowing only 4 baserunners (3H, BB) in his 5 innings of work, capping his night with a strikeout of Shane Victorino to end the 5th inning with runners on 2nd and 3rd.

Josh Roenicke, Rex Brothers, and Matt Belisle cleaned up the final 4 innings of the game, allowing only 3 more baserunners (H, 2BB).

I'm writing this while watching the postgame interviews, and Wilin Rosario has a picture of himself photoshopped into a Mr. T getup.

The bats were adequate during Beckett's outing, notching those 3 runs, but then Kenley Jansen and Josh Wall came in and allowed 7 more runs to provide not only Tacos, but also the following tweet:

This was also the first Rockies shutout in Coors Field since last July.

That's how you start a series.


Source: FanGraphs

Pitcher IP H HR ER BB SO pLI WPA
R Choate 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 0.76 .022
B League 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 0.21 .017
J Wall 0.1 2 1 3 0 1 0.01 -.003
J Beckett 5.2 7 1 3 3 6 0.79 -.024
K Jansen 0.2 4 0 4 0 1 0.13 -.029
Total 8.0 13 2 10 3 11 0.55 -.018

Pitcher IP H HR ER BB SO pLI WPA
J Francis 5.0 3 0 0 1 6 1.00 .301
J Roenicke 1.0 0 0 0 1 0 0.95 .073
M Belisle 1.2 0 0 0 1 0 0.60 .072
R Brothers 1.1 1 0 0 0 2 0.74 .036
Total 9.0 4 0 0 3 8 0.89 .482

Batter AB R H HR RBI BB SO pLI WPA
S Victorino 3 0 1 0 0 1 1 1.06 -.025
M Ellis 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1.16 -.047
K Jansen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
J Wall 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
M Kemp 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 1.18 -.151
A Gonzalez 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.61 -.036
H Ramirez 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.64 -.073
A Ethier 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.72 -.077
L Cruz 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.49 .002
A Ellis 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.97 .064
B League 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
N Punto 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1.00 -.027
R Choate 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
J Beckett 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 1.37 -.113
Total 30 0 4 0 0 3 8 0.89 -.482
Batter AB R H HR RBI BB SO pLI WPA
T Colvin 4 2 2 1 3 1 1 0.67 .066
J Pacheco 4 1 1 0 1 1 1 0.38 -.021
C Gonzalez 4 1 0 0 0 1 2 0.64 -.056
W Rosario 5 1 1 1 2 0 3 0.51 -.069
C Blackmon 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.07 -.004
A Brown 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.68 -.055
C Nelson 4 3 3 0 0 0 0 0.40 .034
D LeMahieu 4 1 2 0 2 0 1 0.67 .071
J Herrera 4 1 3 0 0 0 0 0.53 .028
R Brothers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
M Belisle 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.13 -.003
J Francis 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.26 -.031
D Fowler 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.64 -.017
J Roenicke 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
J Rutledge 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0.91 .076
Total 38 10 13 2 9 3 11 0.55 .018

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