Recap: Diamondbacks 6, Rockies 4
Turning point: A game the Rockies once led 4-1 was upended in the eighth inning when Juan Rincon allowed a two-run home run to Miguel Montero. The comeback started in the sixth inning when a Justin Upton triple scored two runs and took away the momentum. Colorado missed a chance to put another game between them and the Giants, who lost to the Braves 8-1.
At the plate: Troy Tulowitzki put up the first run of the game with a solo home run in the second inning, his 17th this season . . . Dexter Fowler was 2-for-5 and drove in two runs with two-out singles in the second and the fourth. Chris Iannetta, who was 1-for-3, scored both of the runs . . . Ian Stewart tripled and walked twice . . . Seth Smith‘s eight-game hitting streak was snapped with an 0-for-4 night . . . Stephen Drew reached base five times for the Diamondbacks with four singles and a walk.
On the mound: For the second consecutive time out against the Diamondbacks, a great start crumbled for Aaron. Cook. Cook cruised through five innings, then watched Arizona put up two runs on a triple Dexter Fowler misplayed in center. He was pulled with one out and one on in the seventh and finished by allowing four runs on eight hits and a walk . . . Franklin Morales, who relieved Cook in the seventh, had his first shaky outing as a reliever. Morales walked the first two batters he faced, then allowed the trying run to score on a single. He struck out his final batter . . . Juan Rincon pitched the Rockies out of trouble in the seventh by striking out Justin Upton. But the two-run home run he allowed to Miguel Montero in the eighth gave Arizona a 6-4 lead . . . Matt Daley pitched a quiet ninth . . . Diamondbacks starter Max Scherzer threw 95 pitches in just four innings, but the Rockies had only one hit off Arizona’s relievers.
Numbers game: 5 walks for Morales in 5 1/3 innings in seven relief appearances since his July 7 recall.
He said it: “It was knuckling. I was right there, and it just cut (away from me). But I was in the right spot. You never know what those balls are going to do. They might sink. They might cut or whatever.”
Center fielder Fowler on Upton’s drive that sailed over his head for a two-run triple in the sixth.
5-6 actually. Just another reminder how pathetic the bullpen has performed, sans Houston.
you have to win these games…. especially at a time when san francisco is not playing well. the wild card is looking to be a tight race and you cant be giving up leads to poor teams
we need bullpen help and we need it right now, not next week, not at the trade deadline, we need it right now
If Fowler doesn’t misplay that ball into a 2-run triple, it’s an entirely different game. There are no guarantees the Rockies win of course, but you’d have to assume Cook gets through that 6th inning not scored on and has a better chance of getting through the 7th as well.
It changed everything. And it’s a shame Cook had to get charged with those two runs. There was other factors involved, but that play has to get made.
Amen…if the performance of the bullpen the last two nights doesn’t convince O’Dowd that his team needs a dependable 8th-inning reliever, I don’t know what would. Get the ball to Street in the 9th with a lead and the game’s over; stumble in the 7th and 8th and the losses really sting.
If nothing else, this glaring lack of success in the 8th shows how valuable Buchholz was last season. But he won’t be back until a few months into the 2010 season…so either Corpas makes a sudden comeback reminiscent of ’07, O’Dowd makes a trade or we see more games like tonight’s, not a pretty picure.
Tracy’s remarks about Corpas were a tad alarming. They’re being careful with him. Corpas was considered unavailable tonight as Tracy heard he “was stiff” before the game.
The problem with finding bullpen help is the price. The type of pitcher who can pitch reliably in tough spots like the 8th in close games tend to be expensive to trade for, and the Rockies have stated that they’re reluctant to trade prospects.
I don’t think Atkins and Spilly will cut it, either. (And it’s rumored they don’t really want to trade Spilly, anyway.)
Ugh
Reader/Mike-I didn’t see the post game, what else did Tracy say about Corpas?
Tough to watch and yes, these are the types of games we need to win. I hope we focus today and take it strong to the Giants this weekend.
Go Rockies!
TJ, Tracy just said he knew Corpas was unavailable heading in, and alluded to being told about Corpas being stiff. I assume the elbow doesn’t bounce back that quickly.
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