Recap: Padres 3, Rockies 1
Turning point: Joel Peralta took over in the seventh and gave up a homer to pinch-hitter Chase Headley, who led off. Peralta got ahead of Headley 0-2, but Headley worked the count to 3-2 and homered on Peralta’s eighth pitch. Kevin Kouzmanoff followed with a double and scored with two out when Eliezer Alfonzo singled. The game-winning rally came after the Rockies botched a scoring chance in the sixth, which began when Clint Barmes singled, took second on Kevin Correia’s wild pitch and Todd Helton walked. Brad Hawpe grounded into a double play, and Troy Tulowitzki drove center fielder Tony Gwynn Jr. to the wall to make a catch.
At the plate: The Rockies scored in the first when Dexter Fowler led off with a walk, stole second with one out and scored on Hawpe’s two-out double. …The Rockies only had three other hits, singles by Seth Smith to open the fifth, Barmes to open the sixth and Helton to open the ninth. The Rockies got their leadoff hitter on in five innings. …The Padres tied the game in the first when Adrian Gonzalez walked with two out, Kouzmanoff singled and Wil Venable was hit with a pitch. Kyle Blanks drew a bases-loaded walk from erratic Jason Hammel. …Edgar Gonzalez was hit in the head by a pitch from Hammel in the sixth. Brother Adrian Gonzalez left the game in the top of the seventh, and winning pitcher Greg Burke went into the third spot in the lineup vacated by Adrian Gonzalez. Headley, who is from Fountain, Co., and went to Fountain-Fort Carson High School, was pinch hitting for Burke when he hit his game-winning homer, his ninth of the season.
On the mound: Hammel’s strangely spotty outing included five hits and one run allowed in 5 2/3 innings. But Hammel matched his season-high with three walks, hit three batters (two more than he hit in his previous 89 1/3 innings) and had a season-high seven strikeouts. Hammel needed 105 pitches to complete 5 2/3 innings and threw just 62 strikes…Correia allowed three hits and one run in six innings with four walks, two wild pitches and two strikeouts. …Luke Gregerson, who struck out the side in his one inning Friday, struck out two of the three batters he faced while setting the Rockies down in order in the eighth.
Numbers game: 3 pinch-hit homers allowed by the Rockies, two to Padres batters. Huston Street gave up a two-run pinch hit homer to Matt Stairs of the Phillies on April 12 at Coors Field. Street also yielded a pinch-hit homer to Scott Hairston, since traded by the Padres to the A’s, May 30 at Coors Field
Maybe someone should rethink our 5 hole hitter 0-4 with 4 left on? 37 rbi’s? 16 hr’s?
Give someone else a chance.
Maybe, but who would you put in there? I’m not a fan of putting three lefties right together. That makes the opposing manager’s job too easy.
I’d stick with Tulo for now. He had a couple bad ABs last night, but also missed a HR by a couple feet and lined one pretty hard to right center that sliced a little too far. If Helton had tagged and moved up to third on that play, it would have been a productive out.
hey, if you went by last night, its our cleanup guy who should be replaced. Hawpe hit into, what, 2 DPs? Unacceptable.
but thats why you don’t look at just one game.
0-3 and two k’s I say again 37 rbi’s? 16 hr’s? Put your catcher in there, can’t be any worse. Hawpe has 60 rbi’s how can you compare him to #5 and he is not a 5 hole hitter at this time. he may be when he is selective on the pitches he swings at.
Barmes has 48 rbi’s Atkins has 28. Stewart has 47. check playing time. Am I missing something here?
Tulo is hitting .325 in 80 ABs batting 5th this season. .320 in 103 career ABs, which is his highest average anywhere in the order save 9th, where he only had a handful of ABs.
It’s still too early to draw much from the numbers, but it’s clearly the best fit for him and for the team at this time.
Baseball Reference has all the numbers.
Does anyone know why the league pitches him up in the zone? It seems obvious to me. He is a great talent.
Ok, I am done with this. Jim will take care of it if this keeps up.
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