Just call them the Mile High club.
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Indians 7, Yankees Three: Final-place Cleveland improved to Four-1 towards New York this yr.
When they outhit their opponents, the Rockies are 38-13. Blake Street is bombing again. In two games, the teams combined for 64 hits.
“Tough to keep him down for long”, Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. 408 (Rockies) winning percentages.
But only then did it really get messy.
The Mets’ eleven-run lead shrunk to 14-9 with Eric O’Flaherty and Carlos Torres giving up a couple of runs after Niese left the game, but Tyler Clippard and Jeurys Familia each pitched hitless frames to preserve the victory.
The Mets scored three runs in the top of the inning on four doubles. Six Mets doubled in the second and third.
You wonder, however, if GM Sandy Alderson and the front office would be leery of Cespedes’ long-term commitment and work ethic, based on his reputation, if he were to get a huge payday. His seven runs allowed in just 1.2 innings will surely have him going back to the drawing board.
Colon’s plunking was just the second time he’s been hit in his career and first since July 28, 2002, when he was with Montreal.
The Amazin’s raced to a double-digit lead and held on for a 14-9 win against the Rockies on Saturday night – the identical score to the series opener the previous night. It’s one of a starter’s worst nightmares. You don’t ever wish it upon anybody, you don’t wish it upon yourself. Duda made one pinch-hit at-bat during that stretch, and returned to the lineup Tuesday against the Orioles and started the last three games prior to Saturday. Pat Hentgen went through that high-to-low plummet with the Toronto Blue Jays in 1997.
Rusin’s 11 runs allowed were one shy of a Rockies record.
He exited to a storm of boos from an otherwise laid-back Coors Field crowd.
And yet the Rockies somehow sparked a revival. Colorado nearly took the lead in the fifth when Kyle Parker hit what looked like a sacrifice fly to right, but Granderson fired a throw home to retire Hundley.
The New York Mets chased Colorado Rockies’ starter Jon Gray from the game in the second inning, and Yoenis Cespedes slugged three home runs, as the visiting NL East leaders beat up the home team 14-9 at Coors Field on Friday night in Denver.
Anthony Rizzo added an RBI single in the seventh for Chicago. The Colorado Rockies have lost five of their last seven home games. And even Niese tallied two RBIs. He belted a two-run homer in the sixth to give the Mets a 10-8 lead after the Rockies fought back from a 7-1 deficit in the second to tie the score st 8-8 in the fifth.
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PITTSBURGH – Madison Bumgarner homered in his second straight start and struck out six in 6 1/3 innings to lift the San Francisco Giants to a 6-4 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday night.
