When the Colorado Rockies next take the field, it will be September and the team that was swept in three games over the weekend to the San Francisco Giants will have changed.
Whether by design or by luck, the Colorado Rockies stumbled onto a strategy to beat the Giants ace in the their 4-2 win last Sunday. The strategy is pretty simple: put your best starter up against him, take as many pitches as can, hope for some walks, run up the pitch count to try to get into the bullpen in the seventh or eighth inning and cross your fingers.
Notwithstanding the fact that in a Colorado Springs Sky Sox uniform, Jason Giambi looks a little like a washed-up minor-leaguer, the former American League MVP had a successful debut for the Rockies’ Triple-A club Wednesday night.
Obviously, it would have been better if the Colorado Rockies had won Wednesday against the Los Angeles Dodgers. But as losses go, this wasn’t a terrible one.
Lost in the hoopla over the Colorado Rockies’ second consecutive walk-off win, was an impressive start by Jason Hammel who, like Jason Marquis the night before, did not factor into the decision.
The Denver Broncos now have six former New England Patriots on their roster after acquiring offensive lineman Ross Hochstein on Tuesday.
The good news is that ESPN.com finally noticed the Colorado Rockies exist. The bad news is they did so only long enough to reassure their coastal following that that the big-market Los Angeles Dodgers have nothing to worry about from the Rockies.
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.