On September 18, 2010, the Rockies, led by two Troy Tulowitzki home runs and eight shut-out innings by Jhoulys Chacin, beat the Dodgers 12-2 to move within a game of the first place San Diego Padres and a half game back of the Giants. Colorado was sitting on 82 wins with fourteen games left to …
Category Archive: Playoffs
Jul 28
Back to the Future
Rockies baseball needs to get back to the future. Once upon a time, the Colorado Rockies found something special with their “homegrown” approach to slowly cultivating a crop of major league talent within their own farm system. That farm has been suffering under some kind of drought for the past several seasons. But there’s hope …
Oct 25
Bad managing on the game’s biggest stage
Tony La Russa is probably one of the better managers in baseball history; you would have to be to win like 65,000 baseball games. Ron Washington on the other hand has a team full of great hitters in a great hitter’s park and gets in his team’s way more than helps. Last night both managers …
Sep 06
Can you pull for the Diamondbacks in the playoffs?
The MLB regular season is coming to a somewhat anti-climatic close. Unless something truly crazy happens, there is only one playoff spot remaining up for grabs – AL West. Aside from some geographical similarities, that one doesn’t have much to do with the Rockies. Right now, baseball fans are mostly just waiting for the playoffs …





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