Box Score Bytes - Game 119

- Game 54 of the Great Tracy Experiment (Train Wreck): Record 21-33.   No luck Pomeranz actually pitched fairly well just ran into a guy that started off better.  Starter's record is now 8-25 with 21 no decisions and bullpen record of 13-8. 

- Rox finished their homestand with a 5-2 record.  Finished their season series against the Marlins going 4-3 against them.  

- Rox are the walking wounded with Cuddyer going back on the DL and both EY Jr and Rutledge leaving today's game due to injury.  Hard to know why a team falls into the injury bug but it certainly can't help them from keeping 100 losses...

- Betancourt has really had a nice season.  Earned his 23 save.  One bright spot in a season of disappointments.

Box Score Bytes - Game 118

- Game 53 of the Great Tracy Experiment (Train Wreck): Record 20-33.  Chatwood couldn't follow up his last start with another win.  Starter's record is now 8-25 with 20 no decisions and bullpen record of 12-8. 

- Stanton hit his 6th homer in so many games.  He now holds the record for consecutive homers by a visiting player (over Jeff Kent) at Coors as well as in baseball in general.  This shot was monster actually going out of the stadium on a bounce into the player's parking lot.

Box Score Bytes - Game 117

- Game 52 of the Great Tracy Experiment (Train Wreck): Record 20-32.  Francis goes 5 innings, gives up 4 runs but can't get the decision although he left with the lead.  Starter's record is now 8-24 with 20 no decisions and bullpen record of 12-8. 

- Stanton is making a name for himself against the Rox.  After blowing up a scoreboard in Miami against Moyer, he has now hit a homer in his last 5 games at Coors.  He mildly hit a 474 foot shot which is the longest at Coors this year.

- Must have been Singles night at Coors, Rox had 11 of them last night and only 12 hits.

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- Game 51 of the Great Tracy Experiment (Train Wreck): Record 20-31.  Alex White goes 4 innings giving up 2 runs with 74 pitches thrown.  Really when this whole 75 pitch came about I think the intent was to go at least 5 innings...Starter's record is now 8-24 with 19 no decisions and bullpen record of 12-7. 

- Rox win their 4th in a row at home.  Nice compared to their last 1-8 home stand.  Only 19 games left to go.  Need to go 16-3 to finish with a winning record...

- Have to ask again where would the Rox be with Ottavino and Roenicke?  Ottavino won today and got his 4th win.  Roenicke also has 4 wins.  Ottavino has pitched 53.1 innings and Roenicke has gone 72.2.  

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- Rox Win, Rox Win!!!

- White earns his first win of the year.  Amazing what you can do by only allowing one walk.  Right-handed hitters were batting .150 against him while left-handed hitters were batting .326.

- Fortunately this wasn't a sweep in Florida for us.  Last sweep was Aug. 27-29, 2004.

- While this is only one game, Colorado starting pitchers had posted an 8.04 ERA during the six-game losing streak.

- Tulo appears to be finally waking up.  Went 4-12 but scored 4 runs, hit two homers, and collected 7 RBIs.

- Rox beat the slump by wearing black uniforms.  Hey maybe they will go on a tear and Rox will be back in black (black sleeveless uniforms do have secret powers...).

- Nice bullpen action tonight.  A complete game on the mound tonight.

- 15th triple tonight tied with Milwaukee and St Louis for the lead.

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- Before tonight, Nicasio had a 1.31 ERA with 18 strikeouts in 20 2/3 innings pitched on the road this season.  Of course tonight he goes 5 IP and gives up 5 earned runs.

- All I have to say is there ought to be a bat burning or an exorcism or something because really this isn't funny anymore.  It's like a snowball just getting bigger and bigger.  Two more errors tonight, another poor starter outing, and even more scarier is that the Marlins left 13 men on base!

- Thanks go to Belisle with a strikeout with the bases loaded.  That was a big boy pitch.

- What did the Rox do to anger the baseball gods so?  Did someone blow off the unwritten rules of baseball?  Can we get a do over?  A May rewind?

- Sixth loss in a row worse start since 1995.  Please make it stop...

- Although really this one was on us.  To be down by one run in the ninth with a lead off double and CarGo, Tulo, and Helton all get retired without getting in the tying run?  Yup that 2012 Rox baseball in a nutshell!

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- First off I don't like the new name of the Marlins.  Really Miami...ugh it would be like calling the Rockies the Denver Rockies

- Not one Rox starting pitcher this year has won back-to-back starts.  Moyer had that chance tonight but no luck.  According to Elias we are the only team not to do that in the Bigs, as if we needed another reason to slam our pitching staff...

- Moyer has pitched in more ballparks than any other player since 1921, and Marlins Park became the 50th stadium he has appeared in.

- On the bright side Pacheco has a nice seven game hitting streak

- After a four run first inning I really thought Rox might have turned the corner, unfortunately not.  Rox lose to another lefty.

- Have to have the obligatory Guillen quote, this one about Moyer, "I know he went from very bad to very good to very old."  Guillen is one of 11 current managers to have faced Moyer.

- Since Rox are at the quarter pole what do the predictions look like versus the on pace?  Predictions are the average of several prediction including ZiPS, Cairo, Rotochamp, Marcel, and Steamer.  The Good: Most of the lineup, heck scoring runs ain't the problem here folks.  The Bad:  Again it's pitching stupid!