Justin Upton launched a 3-0 fastball deep into the right field seats to lead off the bottom half of the eighth inning at Chase Field in Phoenix. It was a no doubter, giving the Diamondbacks a 4-3 lead that would prove to be the difference.The bomb didn’t come as much of a surprise. The surprise of the inning came when…

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David would leave Vanguard University in California with a journalism degree and go on to write for the Colorado Springs Gazette. He was the Rockies beat writer for The Rocky Mountain News spin off "In Denver Times" in 2009 and recently wrote and managed RockiesReview.com. David was able to crank out over 1000 columns on the Rockies in the last five years, including almost 400 in the last two years alone.

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