Category: Sports

The town is finally realizing that there is a baseball team in Denver, the Colorado Rockies.
Today, the Rockies swept the San Diego Padres 7-3 .  Also today the Denver Broncos lost to the Jacksonville Jaguars 24-14.  But it is nice to see that the lead on the Denver Post tonight is the Rockies winning.

Up until lately, no matter what the Rockies were doing, the Broncos would have the lead story.  Now with the Rockies doing so well and the Broncos just starting their season, the local media is starting realize that the Rockies have a legitimate chance to make the playoffs.

Let’s hope the Rockies continue to roll and that the make the playoffs.  Today, they are only 1.5 games back.

Go Rockies!!!

This was one of the best baseball games of the year.  The Colorado Rockies beat the San Diego Padres in 14 innings by a score of 2-1.
It was a pitcher’s duel and you knew it was going to be a tough one with Jake Peavy pitching for the Padres.  The probable Cy Young winner is tough on everyone and had his good stuff going early.

But the Rockies had rookie Franklin Morales going for them and coming into this game he has not given up a run in 11 innings of work.  And this was a pitcher’s duel.  Continue reading “Rockies Win 2-1”

The Colorado Rockies had no one on and 2 outs and came back to tie it up and eventually win the game tonight 7-3 over the Arizona Diamondbacks.
It was an amazing game and Cory Sullivan was key to start the scoring off in the 8th inning and then score the go ahead run in the 10th.  You also need to give the bullpen credit for shutting them down after Ubaldo Jimenez just dominated the Diamondbacks, giving up 3 hits and one bad home run.

I thought the game was over when the first-base umpire blew the call in the top of the 9th.  Tony Clark‘s foot was definitely off the bag.  The umpire was in a bad position to make the call.  They should never be in a bad position.

The umpire then goes on to throw out Clint Hurdle and for some reason the home plate umpire threw out Troy Tulowitzki who was called out by the bad call.  The problem was that Tulo was in the dugout.

The umpires are human, but in games that mean this much and maybe the playoffs, they need to bring their “A” game.  They didn’t tonight.

Well I thought the Colorado Rockies were done tonight, but they weren’t.
The Roxs came back with 5 runs in the bottom of the ninth to beat the Washington Nationals 6-5.

The Rockies needed it tonight and stay in the race.  I think that if they would have lost tonight, it would have been a tough road to make the playoffs.

Hopefully this will break the bad losing streak and send them on a long winning streak.

Go Rockies!

Five-run rally in ninth boosts Rockies by Pirates

The umpires sure screwed the Colorado Rockies this evening.  Must be the home cooking in Dodger Stadium.
Matt Holliday hit a drive to the wall in right-center field and it went off the glove of the right fielder, hit the wall, and then was caught.

It should have been a double for Holliday, but the umpires gathered and the home plate umpire, Tim Welke, over-ruled the second-base umpire, Mike Everitt, on the call and called him out.

Continue reading “Umpires Screw the Rockies Against the Dodgers”

Well the preseason football polls and the only thing that I think that they have correct is that USC is ranked number 1.
The rest is pretty questionable.

One of the biggest questions is that Boise State is ranked at all.  They are probably getting votes for their amazing win against Oklahoma in last years Fiesta Bowl.

Boise State has lost a lot of starters from last years team and is in search of a quarterback and the two vying for that position didn’t get much playing time last year.  The only thing for sure is that they will have a good running game.

I am especially concerned that the voters ranked Boise State ahead of Hawaii.  Hawaii is a pretty dangerous team who will dominate the games in the islands and will put a lot of points up elsewhere.  I think Hawaii will be better than these polls are suggesting.

Check out both polls on ESPN.

If the Rockies want to get to the playoffs, then the pitching needs to get more consistent.
The last two nights they have given up two big innings.  Thursday was a 9 run inning and tonight was a 5 run inning.  Take those away and the Rockies have a three game winning streak.

I am rooting hard and I hope that I am not disappointed.