Colorado Rockies Ongoing Thread

[CamBradyForPresident]

I know Tulo and Fowler are both out, but this offense needs to get into gear or by the time Tulo and Fowler come back, we may be buried in the standings. We also need to trade for a pitcher or two right now as oswalt doesn't seem to be the answer right now. Granted, the Rockies have faced several good pitchers lately.

 

[CamBradyForPresident]

meant if the offense doesn't pick it up by time fowler and tulo get back, they could be buried in the standings. hopefully we can finish the last 2 games of this dodger series on a positive note.

 

[HammerDown]

 

[4thefences]

Here I am. Very very important game this month against divisional teams. Rockies need a gut check and take it to a higher level.

 

[bored at work]

Well, it's good to be just 4.5 games back with what's pretty much the healthiest we can expect. But it now seems like the Dodgers are threatening to pull away. Unless they've run out of steam, with the league adjusting to Puig, and Ramirez coming back down to earth. Looking as bad as they did against Capuano was frustrating, but great job by Nicasio and the team to beat Kershaw. Now if only Pomeranz would perform at even 40% of his potential, instead of about 5%...

 

[HammerDown]

 

[Paul Fizzle]

Hammer ... why aren't you socializing with the cools kids today?

 

[4thefences]

Ohhh I bet daddy George is disappointed. Oh well that's the business of baseball. What timing Jim Joyce just headed up the last umpiring crew in the series against the Dodgers. Might work?

 

[bored at work]

Well, the Sky Sox are just 3 games out of first.

 

[HammerDown]

 

[BigDDude]

In case any Rockies fan is interested, here is a good piece done on Todd Helton, where he talks about coming to the end of his playing career.

At 40, Todd Helton reflects on the end of his career. | SportsonEarth.com : Jack Etkin Article

 

[bored at work]

Thanks for sharing. I keep going back and forth of whether I'm going to make the trip up this season to see him play one last time. They were mentioning most of his accomplishments during the telecast since it was his birthday, and they mentioned while pitching at Tennessee he compiled a consecutive scoreless inning streak that is still, to this day, the 2nd longest scoreless inning streak in Division 1 (if that's what they call it) history. In high school, he was the Tennessee player of the year in both football and baseball. And on and on and on. I'm a bit biased and think he is a future HOF'er. But with Larry Walker getting such a small percentage of votes, I'm worried that writers will hold Coors Field against him too. I hope I'm wrong about that...

But to end on a more positive note, they did mention during the telecast the Rockies do lead the league in one stat. The pitching staff was charged with its 12th balk of the season, which is 5 ahead of the team with the 2nd most.

 

[67RedSox]

It was on this date in 1897 the greatest Shortstop of all time, Johannes “Honus” Wagner made his ML debut with the Louisville Colonels. He’ll always be remembered as a Pirate though spending the last 18 years of his career playing for them. The “Flying Dutchman” won 8 NL Batting Crowns between 1900-1911. Although Ty Cobb is frequently cited as the greatest player of the Dead-Ball era, some contemporaries regarded Wagner as the better all-around player. Either way they were both among the Group of 5 first elected to the Hall of Fame when its doors opened in 1936 (technically the actual building housing the Hall of Fame didn’t open until 1939)

Honus Wagner - BR Bullpen


It was on this date in 1910 Cy Young picks up the 500th Win of his career as the Red Sex defeat Washington 5-4 in 11 innings.

Cy Young Statistics and History | Baseball-Reference.com

Vernon, is the smallest incorporated city in the State of California. It’s located 5 miles south of downtown Los Angeles. The estimated population today is 114. In 1911 it was huge by comparison with a population of 772. Yet…it was home to the Vernon Tigers of the Pacific Coast League from 1909-1925. It’s important to note that the Pacific Coast league was the “Major Leagues” for Baseball fans on the West Coast. Those Vernon Tigers won back-to-back Pacific Coast League pennants in 1919 and 1920. The Tigers, together with the Sacramento Solons, joined the PCL as a new team in 1909 when the League expanded from four teams to six. The Tigers effectively were a second team in Los Angeles, rivals of the existing Los Angeles Angels. Vernon fielded a Pacific Coast League team because it was one of only two cities in Los Angeles County where the sale and consumption of alcohol was legal. Vernon used its "wet" distinction to its advantage. The largest enterprise in the town at the time was Doyle's bar, advertised as the "longest bar in the world" with 37 bartenders. Doyle was also a sports promoter, building an arena where world championship boxing matches were held. Tigers owner Edward Maier built Maier Park next to Doyle's bar, which had its own entrance to the park. O’K. enough about Vernon. Now let’s talk about Walter Carlisle, an Englishman born in Yorkshire. His Major League career… May 8-11, 1908 spanned 4 days, 3 games, 10 at-bats and 1 hit. He was an outfielder and on this date in 1911 while playing for the Vernon Tigers in a game against the Los Angeles Angels and the score tied at 3–3 in the sixth inning, and runners on first and second bases, Carlisle made a diving catch in shallow CF of a short fly batted by Roy Akin; stepped on second to retire Charlie Moore, and tagged George Metzger coming from first. The Tigers won the game, 5–4. With his heroic feat, Carlisle entered the records books as the only outfielder ever to make an unassisted triple play in organized baseball.

Walter Carlisle Statistics and History | Baseball-Reference.com

Walter Carlisle | SABR

It was on this date in 1920 Babe Ruth hits his 30th and 31st HRs of the season to establish a new single season record breaking his own record of 29 he had set the previous year. He would finish the 1920 season with 54 HRs.

July 19, 1920 Chicago White Sox at New York Yankees Play by Play and Box Score | Baseball-Reference.com

It was on this date in 1936 a 17-year old Bob Feller makes his ML pitching debut in a game against the Washington Senators in the second game of a doubleheader. The Indians are down by 4 runs in the bottom of the 8th inning when manager Steve O’Neill sends Feller in. He gets through the inning without giving up any runs or hits but does walk two batters including the first batter he faces, the opposing team’s pitcher, Monte Weaver.

July 19, 1936 Cleveland Indians at Washington Senators Play by Play and Box Score | Baseball-Reference.com

If you think today’s umpires have a short fuse it was on this date in 1946 HP umpire Red Jones tosses 14 Chicago White Sox players from a game against the Red Sox in a game at Fenway Park.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/sports/baseball/06eject.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0

It was on this date in 1958 that Sandy Koufax starts back-to-back games for the Los Angeles Dodgers. To the best of my knowledge it’s the only time in his career that he started back-to-back games. It was the Dodgers first year in Los Angeles and they were struggling and in last place. The day before, Friday – July 18th Koufax started against the Phillies but had trouble with his control. After 29 pitchers and just 2/3 rds of an inning he walked his 4th batter of the inning forcing in a run and Walter Alston had seen enough and removed him from the game. The next day he started again against the same Phillies and fared better lasting into the 8th inning despite losing the game.

July 18, 1958 Philadelphia Phillies at Los Angeles Dodgers Play by Play and Box Score | Baseball-Reference.com

July 19, 1958 Philadelphia Phillies at Los Angeles Dodgers Play by Play and Box Score | Baseball-Reference.com

It was on this date in 1960 Juan Marichal makes his ML debut and what a debut it was as he one-hits the Phillies at Candlestick Park, 2-0. Philadelphia's lone hit is a two out eighth-inning single by pinch hitter Clay Dalrymple.

July 19, 1960 Philadelphia Phillies at San Francisco Giants Play by Play and Box Score | Baseball-Reference.com

Happy 75th…HOF’er Joe Torre was born on this day in 1940 in Brooklyn.

Joe Torre - BR Bullpen



Baseball Trivia: ( Answer Tomorrow )

Clayton Kershaw has done it and so has Sandy Koufax…who is the only American League pitcher to lead the League in ERA for 4 consecutive seasons. Here’s a few clues…he led the League in Strikeouts his first 7 seasons in the Majors, he won an MVP Award, he won 300 games and of course is in the Hall of Fame.

The answer to yesterday’s question…Mike Schmidt 1980, 1981, 1986 - Mo Vaughn 1995 (Take your choice…Who won 3 MVP Awards in the 1980s or name the Red Sox player to win an MVP Crown during the 1990s.)

 

[HammerDown]

 

[carson]

Can't fucking win at home this year

 

[Rod Freakin' Dangerfield]

So how can you enjoy jerking off looking at droopy balls?!

 

[Old Sweater]

So here it is Saturday with the Rockies having no video or audio feeds.