Right after a rough start off to their existing 10-game road trip, the Seattle Mariners could wrap up the swing with a series sweep if they can defeat the Colorado Rockies when the two meet in the series finale of a three- game set this afternoon.
Seattle blanked the Colorado offense on Friday night and captured a four- win. In Saturday’s matchup the Mariners once more ended up on the winning side in convincing fashion, posting a ten-three victory. It was the 1st time this season the Mariners have scored ten or more runs in a game.
Kyle Seager went 3-for-four with a property run and 3 RBI in the game and has really played well in the series. Casper Wells also had a pair of hits and an RBI and Jesus Montero added a three-hit game himself in the offensive eruption by the Mariners.
With the Mariners offense clicking, pressure was taken off of Seattle starter Jason Vargas, who easily picked up his fifth win of the season right after lasting seven innings in which he allowed three runs on 5 hits.
Seattle has now won consecutive games after going just 1-6 in the 1st seven games of its current road trip.
Immediately after impressing in his very first two profession begins, Christian Friedrich looked like a rookie in his third start in the majors. The 2008 first-round choice allowed eight runs over five innings in which he gave up nine hits and walked 4. Friedrich had allowed only 11 hits and two runs in his first two begins.
Willin Rosario’s sixth house run of the season brought in a pair of runs and Jordan Pacheco also had an RBI in the losing effort for the Rockies, who have lost three straight.
Blake Beavan will get the ball to attempt to pitch the Mariners to their very first series sweep of the season.
Beavan is in his very first season as a normal in the Mariners’ rotation and has thus far been less than outstanding. The appropriate-hander is just 1-4 in seven starts with an ERA of 4.58.
Beavan has also not been in a position to get deep into games, generating it past the fifth only 3 occasions in seven starts.
On Thursday Beavan got through only four innings prior to getting pulled following permitting 3 runs on 5 hits in a five- loss to the Boston Red Sox.
Beavan has just one particular start in interleague play but it was a robust outing. The 23-year-old earned a win following pitching seven innings and allowing one particular run on 3 hits against the San Diego Padres final season.
Producing his 1st commence against AL competition given that moving from the AL East to the NL West will be Jeremy Guthrie, who gets the start off for Colorado.
Guthrie spent his 1st eight seasons in the AL, most notably with the Baltimore Orioles for whom he went 47-65 with a 4.21 ERA in 1ȝ games more than 5 seasons just before getting traded to Colorado in February.
The right-hander’s time in Colorado has been uneven at best. Guthrie had an ERA approached eight after his very first three starts and was also placed on the 15-day DL on April 27th immediately after injuring his proper shoulder. Guthrie missed two starts due to the fact of the injury.
On Thursday Guthrie went 5 1/three innings and allowed just one run that was unearned while striking out four in his 1st commence since returning from the DL.
It is unfortunate that Guthrie missed time in May possibly, which has traditionally been his best month. Guthrie is ten-12 with a three.20 ERA that is the lowest ERA and ties for the most wins in any month.
Guthrie is two-5 with a three.72 ERA in nine career starts against Seattle.
These teams final met on the diamond in June of 2009 when the Colorado Rockies swept a house series at Coors Field.
Question by Little Dustin: Which team do you want to win the Wild Card more Rockies or Giants?
I’m rooting for the Giants. They have a great pitching staff and although their offense isn’t their strong point. The pitching makes up for it. And anyways I see them as underdogs.
So Rockies or Giants?
Thanks Scooter! Missed ya man!
DENVER (AP) Hard-throwing lefty Jorge De La Rosa‘s comeback from Tommy John surgery hit a speed bump Saturday when the Colorado Rockies decided to shut him down because of tightness in his left forearm.
De La Rosa had been on pace to return to the Rockies‘ rotation on June two, which is a day shy of the 1-year anniversary of his operation. But he’s dealt with forearm tightness following his past two minor league outings.
So, he will be in a position to pitch again on Might 26, when a new Ǿ-day clock starts ticking on his minor league rehab assignment, although he could return to the Rockies at any point in the course of that time frame.
”I still do not think that this is any huge issue,” manager Jim Tracy said. ”It’s just another avenue in the road than you have to go down as you are recuperating from this procedure and this surgery.”
De La Rosa mentioned he was disappointed, but understands the Rockies are just becoming cautious.
”I want to be here, but like they say, I need much more time,” De La Rosa mentioned. ”I believe I have to pitch far more and develop up my pitches to be prepared to pitch right here. They want to be cautious with me since it hasn’t been a year since I had the surgery. So, they know how difficult it is to come back from this.”
Nevertheless, De La Rosa said he was bummed because he had been feeling and pitching so properly all through his comeback that started at extended spring education in Arizona. He started to really feel fatigue and tightness more than the past week, ”and they want me to slow down,” he mentioned.
De La Rosa mentioned he had never ever seasoned forearm tightness ahead of.
Tracy stressed De La Rosa’s elbow is sound.
”I want to make confident that everyone is conscious of the reality that it is forearm tightness and that at some time we will get back to this rehab – and possibly close to the schedule. I do not know that specifically,” Tracy said. ”But what I’m trying to emphasize is this is not elbow-connected.
”He’s not experiencing any discomfort with his elbow. He is possessing difficulty with his forearm loosening up … So, we’re pulling him back and we’re going to get this quieted down and hopefully considerably sooner than later we’ll be in a position to resume.”
Main League rules require players pulled from a minor league rehab assignment have to wait a week just before playing again.
De La Rosa tore a ligament in his left elbow last May possibly 24 during the initial game of a doubleheader against Arizona. At the time, he was coming off his 1st career total game and was Colorado’s top pitcher with a five-two record and a three.51 ERA.
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Question by Singer/Songwriter: What else should the Rockies do this offseason to make their team better?
No negative answers please. I have a few ideas what they should do but I want a couple other opinions. Again, no negative answers.
The Colorado Rockies may possibly be at rock bottom.
Can it get any worse than this? How bad can this team actually be?
A day following playing 1 of the worst games in franchise history in a 9-7 loss at Coors Field, the bumbling Colorado Rockies had been shutout by veteran and former teammate, Kevin Millwood on Friday night.
The pitching got blamed on Thursday, but it wasn’t their fault on Friday as Alex White went seven innings and gave up two earned runs. He struck out seven and walked none. It was the variety of outing that gets a starting pitcher a win the vast majority of the time at Coors Field. This, nevertheless, was not a single of these occasions.
When the pitching is very good, the offense doesn’t show up. When the offense is great, the pitchers cannot purchase an out.
It really is difficult. It has been going so poor, for so extended that it is tough to continuously be unfavorable about this team. At some point, there wants to be one thing positive to say. The only bright spot in the past 3 weeks has been the emergence of Christian Friedrich, the Rockies starter on Saturday.
This teams beneath efficiency is outstanding. Some folks would like to believe that they are not a talented team. That just isn’t accurate. This team has confirmed players. They have veterans who know how to win and young players that have a ton of talent.
The rotation has struggled, but really, are they as negative as their numbers? There are lots of teams that would be thrilled to have a combination related to Juan Nicasio, Jhoulys Chacin and Drew Pomeranz. Add in other young pitchers like Alex White and Friedrich and the rotation may well not be excellent, but to suggest that they are something less than typical is a mistake. This rotation is good adequate to compete.
Even if the Rockies rotation is simply typical their lineup is far better than typical. They must be in a position to score much more runs than their opponent far more typically than not.
Just before the season began, I felt the heat from the disgruntled Rockies fans when I stated that they had been better than they were being given credit for. I purchased into the clubhouse turnover. I believed that guys like Ian Stewart and Chris Iannetta weren’t interested in winning and that they had been bringing the club down. I thought that bringing in a gamer like Michael Cuddyer, even if they overpaid for him, would be a positive influence.
Couple these moves with the truth that the team grossly underperformed a year ago, and the signs pointed to a team that could really surprise some individuals. Playing in the National League West, with no genuine dominant teams, the Rockies had a likelihood. It all created sense.
The detractors recommended that the team didn’t do something very good, they just got older. They became more veteran, but those players would put on down quicker. They also were quick to point out that the actual problem was pitching, and bringing in Jeremy Guthrie as the sole move would not work.
Still, acquiring in to Dan O’Dowd’s past success of finding diamonds in the rough like Jason Marquis and trading Matt Holliday and obtaining Carlos Gonzalez and Huston Street, I felt that the moves might just spend off. I was good. I picked the team to win 84 games. That is an improvement of 11 games from 2011. That is becoming very positive.
However, just before Memorial Day arrives, the Rockies have removed all doubt that the bold spring education prediction was 1 that produced fools of the folks who believed in the franchise. It wasn’t easy to be positive, but the moves could be noticed as winning moves.
Diving in and attempting to figure out what is wrong is the next step. Nicely, if the clubhouse was an situation and guys didn’t care enough about winning, then why does this team play with the very same lack of work since the losing began? Is it Troy Tulowitzki’s fault for not major nicely enough? Is Todd Helton also quiet? Are both of those guys failing in the batter’s box also frequently?
The concern may well be beyond the talent on the field. Is Jim Tracy as well good? Is he afraid to bring the hammer down when a person demands to be put in their spot? Is it his crazy lineup moves, and indefensible bullpen maneuvers that have doomed this team?
Does the weight of this team’s struggles fall on the shoulders of Bob Apodaca? Immediately after all, the largest concern is that the beginning pitchers have underperformed. Well, at what point is it coaching when none of the pitchers attack the strike zone? When nearly all of the pitchers are 3 to 4 MPH down in their velocity, is the message from the pitching coach not resonating?
Is it an organizational concern? Are the Monforts as well soft? Do they treat their workers as well a lot like family members that generating tough decisions takes also lengthy?
It is hard to be good. It is easy to be negative. At some point is it just complaining? I’m not certain. It is incredibly difficult to lift some thing positive out of a team that is struggling so badly, yet is so unwilling to acknowledge that items have to alter in order to right the ship. It is frustrating to watch a franchise accept status quo and tell their paying fans that instead of making an effort to turn issues around, they are juts going to blindly drive the vehicle into the brick wall with the gas pedal to the metal.
Getting positive will come back. It will return when the Rockies make difficult decisions. It will come back when the owners say that adequate is adequate and let absolutely everyone know that mediocrity is not going to cut it.
Some men and women feel that changing a manager or a coach won’t do something to turn the season about. They may be correct. However, what it will do is tell a fan base that the franchise isn’t content with losing, that they aren’t content material with being a joke around the league and that they are willing to make hard choices in an work to grow to be much better.
That day requirements to come soon. The fans are starting to grow to be cynics. They have each appropriate to be. This team stinks and absolutely nothing is becoming carried out about that.
If the owner’s do not tell somebody it is time to pack it in, the fans will pack it in themselves and quit paying attention. It’s time to make a move. It really is time to start handing out pink slips. Who gets the very first 1 is not essential, but it has to come about soon.
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I may be embracing the 5D again… my battery grips have been misbehaving for ages, which has caused me no end of woe. I’ve realised that one of the wee plastic tabs that keep the batteries in place become bent over time, which may well have something to do it. We’ll see if it makes much difference.
This is me and Chris being big-time baseball fans at a Rockies game. I have a huge grin because it was ridiculously sunny. The Americans weren’t quite as impressed.
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A colorful reflection in a frozen lake, North East Boulder County, Colorado with the sun rising. The colors on this lasted about two minutes as a snow storm is was into the county and this faded fast. The Calm before the storm. It was in the 50′s for two days while up in the Rockies they got over 20" of snow. Now it is our turn. Sunrise January 19th,20ǫ. www.jamesinsogna.com/Photography/Sunrise-and-Sunsets/1470…
The Colorado Rockies got what they needed from starter Alex White. They cannot say the very same about their offense.
White threw seven successful innings, a uncommon feat by a Colorado starter this year, but it wasn’t adequate against the Seattle Mariners.
Kevin Millwood tossed a two-hitter for his very first shutout in nearly nine years and Mike Carp hit a solo homer, helping the Mariners snap a 4-game skid with a four- win Friday night.
“We got a extremely competitive work from Alex White, unfortunately the Mariners got a tremendous work from Kevin Millwood,” Rockies manager Jim Tracy stated.
Millwood (2-4) comfortably cruised by means of this game and didn’t surrender his initial hit till Marco Scutaro’s single with two outs in the sixth. He struck out seven and walked a single. He didn’t allow a runner to reach third until the ninth inning, but got Carlos Gonzalez to line out to finish the game.
Right after averaging 10 hits per game over the last 3, the Rockies identified them tough to come by against their former teammate.
“He was producing his pitches. It wasn’t like we were hitting a bunch of difficult balls,” Scutaro stated. “He was banging the corners and he had late movement.”
White (-3) was the tough-luck loser, dropping his sixth straight begin in a dubious string that dates back to Sept. 16. Right after struggling early, White settled into a groove. He gave up three runs – two earned – and seven hits in seven solid innings.
“That is alright. My job is to preserve the team in the game, get deep in the ballgame and give us a likelihood to win,” White said. “That’s what I tried to do but Millwood was good tonight.”
The Rockies hoped to get healthful on this 5-game homestand but have lost two of their very first three and 12 of 16 in Might. They’ve slipped to a season-low eight games below .500 but the players are not giving up hope.
“I assume we’re close to going on a run, and it begins with our pitching staff, it begins with the starters keeping the team in the game,” White said. “We have a great offense, they are going to get going and score us some runs.
“It really is Might, it really is still mid-Could, there’s a lot of the season left. If you appear down this lineup we have a excellent team and we’ll put it together.”
Immediately after bouncing about, Millwood could have ultimately discovered a house with the Mariners.
The journeyman pitcher shuffled around the minor leagues with the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox for a lot of final season. He joined the Rockies rotation last August in an emergency scenario, when Juan Nicasio was lost for the year after taking a line drive to the right temple and suffering a fractured skull along with a neck injury.
Millwood wound up 4-3 wearing Colorado’s purple pinstripes.
He when again had to prove himself this season, signing a minor league contract with Seattle. He started winless in his initial six games this season, ahead of beating the Yankees last Sunday.
He flirted with a no-hitter Friday, giving up his only two hits in the sixth inning. The initial was on Scutaro’s chopper that Seager couldn’t snare in the hole amongst third and brief. Jordan Pacheco followed with a single up the middle, but Scutaro was thrown out by Michael Saunders as he tried to advance to third.
“It was a poor play by me,” Scutaro mentioned. “I have to make confident to be secure. I thought I had a opportunity but I’ve got to be smart on that.”
Millwood currently has 1 no-hitter below his belt as he bottled up the San Francisco Giants in a 1- win on April 27, 2003, when he was with the Philadelphia Phillies.
Relying on a 91-mph fastball and an helpful slider, Millwood baffled the Rockies all evening.
“He pounded the strike zone all night. He pitched ahead all night,” Tracy stated. “He used possibly a handful of curveballs, fundamentally did it with a fastball. Employed his slider efficiently. When you pitch ahead all night extended you get defensive swings.”
Carp hit his third homer of the season in the second, a towering shot to the deepest part of the park. Kyle Seager had an RBI single and drove in yet another on a sacrifice fly. John Jaso added an insurance coverage run the ninth by bringing in Seager on a sac fly.
The Mariners enhanced to two-6 on theirಊ-game, 4-city road swing.
A nifty slide by Ichiro Suzuki in the sixth staked the Mariners to a three- lead, which was more than sufficient for Millwood. The speedy Suzuki got a great jump as he tagged on Seager’s shallow fly. Even though Gonzalez’s throw was on target – and arrived about the very same time – Suzuki managed to keep away from Wilin Rosario’s tag just before slapping his hand on the plate.
The Mariners scratched out a run in the very first when Saunders laced a triple into the proper-center gap and was brought in when Seager blooped a single center.
NOTES: Seattle has a pair of no-hitters in team background, the last by Chris Bosio on April 22, 1993, in a 7- win over Boston. Randy Johnson has the other on June two, 1990, against Detroit. … Nicasio had a bruise on his proper thigh immediately after becoming hit by a line drive in the very first inning Thursday. … LHP Jorge De La Rosa (shoulder) allowed a single run and 3 hits more than 4 innings in a rehab commence at Double-A Tulsa on Thursday.
DENVER (AP) — Colorado pitcher Alex White, sent in for a uncommon pinch-hitting look, kept the bat planted firmly on his shoulder †manager’s orders.
With the Rockies’ complement of bench players currently utilised up, White was their only option when they loaded the bases with none out in the ninth inning.
Taking all the way, White worked the count full just before going down on a known as third strike. J.J. Putz then induced Ramon Hernandez to bounce into a game-ending double play to preserve the Arizona Diamondbacks’ 9-7 victory Thursday.
“You know what? We nearly caught a break there,” Rockies manager Jim Tracy. “I am not so confident that the three-two pitch wasn’t ball four. (But) we’re not going to let him hit into a double play and wipe the inning out.”
White, who has a single hit in five at-bats this season, mentioned he had a feeling he could get the call to pinch-hit due to the fact he knew the Rockies had already employed up all their bench players in a series of double switches and pitching changes throughout a back-and forth game that included a 3-run rally in the eighth by Colorado that tied the score at 7.
Justin Upton hit a two-run homer in the ninth for Arizona off closer Rafael Betancourt (1-1). Moments later, White batted for Betancourt and was given the take sign throughout.
Was he tempted to swing?
“Really,” White mentioned.
“I was doing what I had to do to try to assist the team, but certainly I wanted to swing there,” added White, the Rockies’ scheduled starter Friday night against Seattle. “Logically, even though, that is not intelligent and I realize that. I just wish we could have pulled it out.”
Instead, it was the Diamondbacks who hung on as Hernandez bounced into a five-four-3 double play with Putz choosing up his seventh save in nine chances.
“That is just the way it was,” said Jason Giambi, who had a pinch-hit single throughout Colorado’s tying rally in the eighth. “We required to do a small better job earlier in the game and we would not have gotten in that scenario. We had to get back in the ballgame. That’s why we utilised so several hitters. Unfortunately, it was just a tough circumstance. I do not think anyone wanted to draw it up on the board like that.”
Brad Ziegler (two-1) retired the only batter he faced in the eighth for the victory.
Willie Bloomquist and Ryan Roberts also drove in two runs apiece as the Diamondbacks won for the third time in 12 games.
The buzz surrounding this game included a swarm of bees that invaded the stadium, taking more than a camera bay subsequent to the Rockies’ dugout in the fifth. They remained stuck to a railing till a beekeeper arrived an inning later to vacuum up the bees and relocate them.
Troy Tulowitzki hit a two-run homer off starter Trevor Cahill, and Jordan Pacheco added a solo shot to support stake the Rockies to an early four-1 lead.
It did not final. Bloomquist sparked a 4-run eighth with an RBI single off Rex Brothers. Jason Kubel, Paul Goldschmidt and Roberts also added run-scoring singles.
Rockies starter Juan Nicasio had a scare in the initial inning when Bloomquist sent a liner straight at him. Nicasio turned his back just in time and was struck on the right thigh.
The play was eerily reminiscent of the line drive that hit Nicasio in the correct temple last August, when he suffered a fractured skull along with a neck injury. Physicians had to execute emergency surgery to insert pins into the cracked C-1 vertebra and attach a little metal plate to the back of his neck.
Nicasio made a outstanding recovery to turn into one of the Rockies’ most reputable pitchers this season.
Soon immediately after Nicasio was hit, Tracy and trainer Keith Dugger popped out of the dugout to examine on him. Nicasio threw a few warmup pitches to test his leg ahead of motioning that he was all proper.
But he appeared rattled and walked the subsequent two batters. Nicasio worked his way out of the jam with out any further damage but mentioned after the game his thigh remained sore throughout the outing and affected his delivery.
“I could not stay back. It was sore a small bit,” Nicasio stated. “I couldn’t push due to the fact it was difficult. I couldn’t push off. I was only throwing with my arm and my shoulder.”
He said, although, he did not expect to miss any time.
“It will be all appropriate,” said Nicasio, who gave up a single run in 4 2-three innings whilst striking out seven and walking five. “I will not miss a start off.”
NOTES: Cahill allowed four runs and five hits in five innings. … Diamondbacks OF Chris Young (shoulder) hit a grand slam for Class-A Visalia on Wednesday. He will now move on to Triple-A Reno for his rehab assignment. … The Diamondbacks kick off interleague play with a check out to Kansas City on Friday night. They are 9-3 at Kauffman Stadium. … Rockies LHP Jorge De La Rosa (shoulder) was scheduled to begin for Double-A Tulsa on Thursday night. … The Rockies host Seattle on Friday night, with White (-two) facing RHP Kevin Millwood (1-4), who spent last season with Colorado. … The Rockies issued nine walks.
