The Colorado Rockies have two weeks until the end of the regular season, and for just the third time in their history they look like they’ll play beyond the final Sunday. The postseason would extend the Rockies career of a few players by a few weeks and delay a number tough decisions facing the team.
The job isn’t done, but the Colorado Rockies’ win in the series finale against the San Francisco Giants dramatically improved the Rockies’ chances to win the wild-card over teams that have much harder roads to the postseason.
Before the NFL season began, Jay Cutler was assumed to be a safe bet to help the Chicago Bears become winners. After one game, reality has set in.
You wouldn’t know it from Monday’s 9-1 loss to the San Francisco Giants, but the Colorado Rockies had the right lineup on the field. In the past month as the Rockies’ offense has sputtered, new manager Jim Tracy has fallen into a similar trap that old manager Clint Hurdle fell into time after time: constantly tweaking the lineup trying to find the right mix of players at the right time. He’s found it, now, and should stick with it.
The Denver Broncos’ new quarterback Kyle Orton didn’t do much to help this team win, nor did he do much to put his team in danger. The Broncos’ old quarterback, however, had a debut worth remembering — for Broncos fans.
The similarities between how Ubaldo Jimenez was once pressed into the Colorado Rockies rotation and how Esmil Rogers is about to be, are rather striking.
The Colorado Rockies’ come-from-behind 4-3 win Wednesday against the Cincinnati Reds not only moved the team a full four games ahead of the Giants and to within 2 1/2 games of the division-leading Dodgers. It likely allowed Troy Tulowitzki and Ian Stewart, both suffering from back injuries, to get another day of rest.
Steve Foster is a former assistant sports editor at the Rocky Mountain News, designer at the Chicago Sun-Times and member of the Baseball Writers Association of America. He occasionally blogs at InsideTheRockies.com.