Fatal Fuentes
The two most offensively deficient teams go toe to toe in a battle of the bats. Why is it that whenever the Rockies and the Padres meet it is always so dramatic? I feel like when it comes to match ups I normally anticipate the Rockies and the Dbacks to be the best one in the NL West. Normally I feel like that is the team that we have bad blood against, but something new is beginning to ensue.
Lets take this one back several months to the last time the Padres were at Coors Field. It was the 163rd game and we won it 9-8 in extra innings in the most dramatic fashion, no person could have designed such a game. Then we fast forward to April 17th, struggling Jeff Francis matches Cy Young winner Jake Peavey pitch for pitch and our bullpen does a tremendous job to help us win in the top of the 22nd inning, six hours and some odd minutes from when the game began. And then we are back in present time. We are facing the worst team in the worst division, barely ahead of them by half a game. We managed to get 8 runs off of 9 hits in the first 5 innings. Finally we were capitalizing when guys were getting on base, Iannetta got a base clearing double, Hawpe took one deep with two guys on and we have a 5 run lead. 5, count it, 5, that is quiet the hill to climb, it is a grand slam plus another knock. The Padres didn't climb that hill, they just tunneled through it. They faced an all star closer and took 7 runs off of him. Then they just added a few shots, just for the fun of it.
It wasn't bad defense, it wasn't horrible pitching, it wasn't a silenced offense. What the hell was it? There is no way that the Padres could have just conquered us like that, it's not really their style. I am confused and devastated. It has now been well over a week since I have been able to celebrate a Rockies win. Now that we are past the halfway point we really need to start raking in some wins. I'm not concerned with a winning record or postseason dreams. I just want to feel like every once in a while we are capable of achieving expectations. I think if we ever want to get back to true form then we need to trade Brian Fuentes, move Bucholz or Corpas into the closer role and never ever look back.
Lets take this one back several months to the last time the Padres were at Coors Field. It was the 163rd game and we won it 9-8 in extra innings in the most dramatic fashion, no person could have designed such a game. Then we fast forward to April 17th, struggling Jeff Francis matches Cy Young winner Jake Peavey pitch for pitch and our bullpen does a tremendous job to help us win in the top of the 22nd inning, six hours and some odd minutes from when the game began. And then we are back in present time. We are facing the worst team in the worst division, barely ahead of them by half a game. We managed to get 8 runs off of 9 hits in the first 5 innings. Finally we were capitalizing when guys were getting on base, Iannetta got a base clearing double, Hawpe took one deep with two guys on and we have a 5 run lead. 5, count it, 5, that is quiet the hill to climb, it is a grand slam plus another knock. The Padres didn't climb that hill, they just tunneled through it. They faced an all star closer and took 7 runs off of him. Then they just added a few shots, just for the fun of it.
It wasn't bad defense, it wasn't horrible pitching, it wasn't a silenced offense. What the hell was it? There is no way that the Padres could have just conquered us like that, it's not really their style. I am confused and devastated. It has now been well over a week since I have been able to celebrate a Rockies win. Now that we are past the halfway point we really need to start raking in some wins. I'm not concerned with a winning record or postseason dreams. I just want to feel like every once in a while we are capable of achieving expectations. I think if we ever want to get back to true form then we need to trade Brian Fuentes, move Bucholz or Corpas into the closer role and never ever look back.
I'm voting make Taylor the closer.
My question is: why, looking at Jorge de la Rosa's stats, does he keep getting the ball? He's so inconsistent it's terrifying. And the sad thing is, we totally could have won this game despite his pitching. 100%.
Get rid of Brian. Stat.
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Great game, Colorado. You tried to put the Padres down but we were sick of losing! You guys have Aaron Cook going tonight though, so I think this will be a low scoring game. May the best team win!
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