Saturday Rockpile: Raimel Tapia gets first major-league hit

Tapia among Rockies' roster reinforcements | MLB.com

September means roster expansions and yesterday the Rockies took full advantage by calling up, among others, top prospects Raimel Tapia and Tom Murphy. During his pre-game press conference yesterday Weiss hinted at how he plans to use each of these new talents:

These are a couple of guys who can help us win games. I don't have an exact plan on how I am going to use them. ... But I know that with Murphy, especially, he's going to get some time. And Tapia is a nice weapon to have off the bench."

Last night Tapia made his major league debut as a pinch hitter and legged out an infield hit before eventually scoring the game tying run in the fifth inning. It wasn’t the type of barreled liner that we might have expected from Tapia. But we wouldn’t have expected Ichiros 3,000th hit to nearly leave the park and ultimately result in a triple. Tapia has time enough to barrel some balls. Let’s hope he gets the start tonight.

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