Box Score Bytes - Game 40

- "Three balls left the ballpark," Tracy said after today's lost. "That's the difference in the game."  And once again we have to go back to management and wonder why we traded for a guy that allows home runs at an alarming rate.  Below is the Top 50 home run to hit ratios from 2004 - 2012 (min 500 IP).  Picked 2004 because that is when Guthrie entered the league.  Guthrie sits at 33 on the list with Moyer at 20.  The average for this period is about 0.11.

And if we look at the last 5 years (min 500 IP) Rox now have two of the Top 10.  Hey O'Dowd couple of these guys are probably available.  Why don't we prove your theory about fly ball pitchers and altitude once and for all...

Name	H	HR
Armando Galarraga	500	86	0.17
Ted Lilly	702	116	0.17
Bronson Arroyo	910	142	0.16
Dave Bush	539	82	0.15
Brett Myers	718	100	0.14
Jeremy Guthrie	835	114	0.14
Jamie Moyer	538	73	0.14
Shaun Marcum	526	71	0.13
Javier Vazquez	728	98	0.13
Ervin Santana	834	112	.13

- Rox get outscored by 20-7 against one of the poorer offensive teams in the league.  Out hit by 31 - 19.

- 4th time this season Colorado has surrendered consecutive homers.

- On the bright side at least our team tries to make it exciting in the late innings.  Of course most of the time Rox are so far behind most teams just don't care.

Box Score Bytes - Game 39

- Been a big fan for a lot of years and this year's addition is positively horrendous.  I didn't think this team was going to make the playoffs but I also didn't think it would be this bad.  There isn't anything positive to say at this point.

- Seattle came into this Series ranked 20th in all of baseball with 144 runs scored.  They scored 4 last night and 10 tonight.  They were batting 0.234 as a team (27th), 0.290 on base percentage (28th), and slugging 0.367 (27th).  For all intents and purposes this is an offensively challenged baseball team and yet Rox are just getting smoked or maybe Smoak

- Rox manage 5 hits against a guy who was 0-2 and an ERA of 18.00 before this evening at Coors.  Vargas looked every bit as good as Millwood last night and just think the Rox missed Hernandez!

- Rox are now losers in 12 of 15 games.  Much like last year May is another forgettable month...

- Yup Friedrich pitched like an ace in Petco and AT&T only to get shelled at Coors.  Thanks for playing...After allowing just two earned runs over 13 innings in his first two starts Friedrich was tagged for eight earned runs in five innings of work at Coors.

- Have the Rox seen enough of Esmil Rogers?  Coming into a bases loaded situation is never easy but to give up two hits and allow 4 to score just shows this guy doesn't have it anymore.

Box Score Bytes - Game 38

- The Rockies (15-22) have a 5.67 ERA at home -- worst in the majors. In the last 11 in Denver, it's at 6.29.

- Rox are handcuffed by a guy we got off the scrap heap last year, only to allow him to revive his career, and then we allow him to sock it to us tonight.  Two lousy hits tonight against the 37 year old.  Punchless versus Seattle...

- Rox struck out 7 times against Millwood who only allowed one walk.  5th pitcher to throw a shutout, allowing two hits or fewer, against the Rockies in Colorado, the first since Roy Oswalt threw a 1-hit shutout for the 2008 Astros.

- Meanwhile White who had a decent Coors outing has lost his last 3 starts dating back to last year.

- Interesting tidbit as White was teammates with Seattle's Seager and Ackley at North Carolina when they went to 3 college world series.

- The Mariners improved to 2-6 on their 10-game, four-city road swing. Shows just how pathetic Rox are anymore especially at home.  Rox have lost their swagger.  Teams like this struggling on the road and in the old days Rox would have just feasted on them but in today's world they come in and its like a vacation or batting practice.