Plaid on plaid might have been more appropriate in a mixed-up oddity of a game at Coors Field.
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“I think it was cool, because “Tulo” set it before, and he was kind of my mentor”, Story said.
His boxscore hid the sideways details.
Gray pitched seven strong innings, Nolan Arenado and Trevor Story hit two-run homers off relievers after starter Julio Teheran left because of an injury, and the Rockies beat the Atlanta Braves 4-3 on Friday night.
“That was weird. Especially in this ballpark”, Chatwood said. They are 1-6 on their current 10-game road trip, and they were outscored 26-12 in their four losses to the Rockies. The Rockies’ rookie has 24 homers. A seven-game stand in Denver that almost teetered toward disaster tipped back toward the Rockies. Braves RHP Shea Simmons allowed one hit and one run in one inning with one strikeout for the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League Braves in his first rehab appearance since undergoing Tommy John surgery on February 12, 2015.
Chatwood became only the seventh pitcher since 1913, to throw five innings or less, walk at least eight, and allow zero runs. The Rockies improved to 6-3 since the break and their rotation has made 49 quality starts – 13 this month – after ranking last in the majors (54) in 2015. That is almost unheard of for a veteran pitcher not known for an overpowering fastball. Chatwood has lost consecutive starts for the first time this season. The Braves get one more shot at the Rockies tomorrow, as both clubs wrap up the season series. Chatwood (9-6) threw just 51 strikes among his 97 pitches but won for the first time in five starts since June 11.
The Braves got to within three when Erick Aybar reached on an error that allowed Freeman to score.
“That’s not a normal stat line for a starter”, said DJ LeMahieu, whose team captured all four from the Braves after losing two of three to struggling Tampa Bay.
The eccentricities did not stop on the mound. He issued two more walks in the second, but sandwiched between them was a hit-robbing catch by shortstop Story of A.J. Pierzynski’s flare to short center.
Tyler Jenkins was eventually ran from the game in the fourth inning, which is when the Rockies absolutely teed off on him.
In his first start at Philadelphia, he allowed four hits and one run in 4 1/3 innings with one walk and one strikeout.
Jace Peterson connected for a two-run homer off Jason Motte in the eighth, pulling the Braves within a run. “I just put my head down and work every day”.
Well, the Rockies are one win away from completing a four-game sweep.
Story has hit five homers in his past six games with 10 RBIs, giving him 67 for the season.
And, days after the floor seemed to have disappeared under their feet, the Rockies won seventh game in their past 10 – and they’re six games behind a wild card spot.
“Just the biggest thing to pitching here from all the guys that I’ve talked to and everything we stress is not having walks”, Anderson said. “But to really put us back in it, we have to go on a long streak”.
If you grew up watching baseball in the ’90s, you knew the Braves as a model of excellence and consistency.
David Dahl’s rocket ride to the major leagues will land today when the Rockies call up their top outfield prospect for a series at Baltimore against the Orioles, a big-league source confirmed Sunday. If that sounds familiar to Rockies fans, the previous record was set in 2007 by none other than Colorado’s own Troy Tulowitzki.
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Dahl, who was penciled in to hit second and play left field for the Albuquerque Isotopes on Sunday, was scratched at the last minute. In his first game with Albuquerque, on July 4, he homered and hit 3-for-5. He can either be traded, claimed off waivers, assigned to Triple-A or released.
