The Week That Was
A 2-4 week against the Dodgers and Giants. The Rox currently stand at 27-31. Five and half games behind the Giants for the division lead in fourth place. Currently 13-15 at home and 14-16 on the road, the Rox have outscored its opponents 248-242 (expected wins is 30 versus historical wins at 26). On pace for 75 wins with 693 runs scored and 676 runs against. Playoff indicator (Runs scored/Runs Against ratio) is 1.02 (1.16 indicates high playoff potential).
How tough has it been? Rox scored 10 runs last week! Throw out the first two games in LA and in the last four games of the week the Rox only allowed 6 runs and only went 2-2 in that stretch. Oh yeah and don't forget when our Rox got 18 on base against LA and only scored one run!
How tougher has it been? Hammel pitches a no hitter through five and two-thirds yesterday and Rox still lose 2-1. The Rox are currently on pace to score 693 runs? Lowest in team history? No not yet, that would be 740 in 2005. That year they finished 67-95 and that is because pitching gave up 862 runs. This year staff is on pace for almost 40 runs better than their history and Rox are still 4 games under 0.500!
How toughest has it been? Rox are 11-17 in the division and 16-14 against everyone else. In those 28 games in the division Rox have scored 110 and only allowed 119 runs to score (138 vs 123 against everyone else). Rox should probably should have 2 to 3 more wins...
And this isn't just the Rox, the league average runs scored is down about 10% from 2000 - 2010 and at this rate about 2,400 less runs will be scored in the MLB.
In the end, I remember reading an early season preview indicating that once again the Rox pitching would be solid but the decider would be the offense. I scowled at such a thought and wonder what moron would ever think a team playing half its games at Coors would have an offense problem...now I no longer balk at such a suggestion. This team is anemic. I just haven't seen anything like this before. The ball has got to start bouncing our way sometime this season, right? I can't tell you how many times at Coors I have seen a hot shot up the middle only to be snagged by a middle infielder just shading correctly in that direction to make an easy out. This sums it up, this Tulo article would indicate he his hitting better but actually doing worse!
How tough has it been? Rox scored 10 runs last week! Throw out the first two games in LA and in the last four games of the week the Rox only allowed 6 runs and only went 2-2 in that stretch. Oh yeah and don't forget when our Rox got 18 on base against LA and only scored one run!
How tougher has it been? Hammel pitches a no hitter through five and two-thirds yesterday and Rox still lose 2-1. The Rox are currently on pace to score 693 runs? Lowest in team history? No not yet, that would be 740 in 2005. That year they finished 67-95 and that is because pitching gave up 862 runs. This year staff is on pace for almost 40 runs better than their history and Rox are still 4 games under 0.500!
How toughest has it been? Rox are 11-17 in the division and 16-14 against everyone else. In those 28 games in the division Rox have scored 110 and only allowed 119 runs to score (138 vs 123 against everyone else). Rox should probably should have 2 to 3 more wins...
And this isn't just the Rox, the league average runs scored is down about 10% from 2000 - 2010 and at this rate about 2,400 less runs will be scored in the MLB.
In the end, I remember reading an early season preview indicating that once again the Rox pitching would be solid but the decider would be the offense. I scowled at such a thought and wonder what moron would ever think a team playing half its games at Coors would have an offense problem...now I no longer balk at such a suggestion. This team is anemic. I just haven't seen anything like this before. The ball has got to start bouncing our way sometime this season, right? I can't tell you how many times at Coors I have seen a hot shot up the middle only to be snagged by a middle infielder just shading correctly in that direction to make an easy out. This sums it up, this Tulo article would indicate he his hitting better but actually doing worse!
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