A 1-5 week against St Louis and our division rival, D-Backs. Not a real positive way to start the season. The Roxs had 51 strikeouts to go along with 47 runners left on base with .100 hitting percentage with runners in scoring position. Starting pitching wasn't that much better going an average of 5 2/3 innings and only pitching with the lead an average of 2 innings. The Roxs are sharing the cellar with the Giants in 5th place (3.0 behind). The Roxs currently stand at 1-5. Currently 0-3 at home and 1-2 on the road, the Roxs have been outscored by its opponents 32-10 (expected wins is 1 versus historical wins at 3). On pace for 27 wins with 270 runs scored and 864 runs against. Roxs graphical wins (home in Purple, away in grey).
Weekly WPA leaders:
Obviously only having 8 players in the positive is not a good thing! Holliday only leads the team because of his game tying homerun on Sunday (what about his 4 K game on Opening Day!). Morales leads the pitchers with both Fuentes and Buckholz are holding downt the pen. Nix is a surprise and the Rox Star that is Todd Helton continues to be the anchor of the team. Let's hope things fair better this week when the Braves come into town for four (can the NL Champion festivities please go away...when the team is 1-5 it gets old hearing about "our 2007 NL Champions"). And next weekend we close out the week in Phoenix...maybe we can return the favor!
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