Thursday, June 24, 2010



The Rockies put on a show last night. Conversely, the Red Sox particularly Jonathan Papelbon squandered a miraculous 4-run 6th inning comeback against Ubaldo Jimenez, who by far had his worst outing this season, lowering his ERA to 1.60. Yes, last night killed his ERA and somehow he didn't get the win however a win is a win for the Colorado Rockies; especially when half of the crowd at Coors field were Red Sox fans. Usually the story this season has been about Jimenez bailing out Colorado's lack of offense with his pitching but last night the opposite happened; Colorado's offense bailed out Jimenez. After watching Jimenez come out of the game last night (classic situational and sometimes overkill substitutions by Jim Tracy and Bob Apadaca) it was great to have Huston Street back for the first time this season. He played decent, pitching 1 1/3 innings allowing one hit. We have missed him this year having to deal with Corpas. Last season Street saved 35 of 37 games and 23 of those 35 games were 1-2-3 outs with no hits allowed. When I thought my birthday was going to be dampered in a loss to the Red Sox, Ian Stewart homered in the 9th to tie the game, followed by Jason Giambi for the walk-off home run. Fittingly, Giambi who wears #23 for the Rockies won the game on June 23rd. This was by far one of the best Rockies games I have been to. It is exciting to look at the standings seeing Colorado at 38-33 only 3.5 games out of the NL West lead and only 3 games out of the wild card lead. Last year this time Colorado sat at 37-35 and 2.5 games out of the wild card lead. The Rockies are in great position with Huston Street coming back from injury, Jorge de la Rosa expected back soon and also considering the fact Colorado is now 5 games over .500 for the first time this season.

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