MLB standings are relevant now that we’re past Memorial Day and both the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies are turning heads. Despite Monday’s loss, why are the Rox continuing to trend upward? What has made the Dbacks on the best teams in the National League? And which Rockies legend has the secret to winning ball clubs? The DNVR Rockies Podcast…
When Cody Bellinger hit an outside-the-park single on Opening Day, it appeared to be one of the more improbable, quixotic plays witnessed in LoDo and was a reminder that anything can happen in any baseball game. Unfortunately for the Colorado Rockies, most of the unusual occurrences this season have been slanted toward the wrong side of history. With a win-loss…
The mountaintop. The pinnacle. The apex. The peak. The zenith. In sports, these words are used to describe the rarest of achievements. Why? Because all the way at the top, there is only room for one. And in the history of the Colorado Rockies, there has been one – and only one – pitcher to complete a nine-inning baseball game…...
Bobby Valentine was in Japan too long.Less than a week after he declared on Baseball Tonight that if the Cy Young had to be given out after a single month, the only two National League pitchers in the competition were the Mets Mike Pelfrey and the Phillies Roy Halladay.Good thing Valentine’s vote didn’t count. On Monday the league announced that…...
In a move that should surprise no one, Major League Baseball announced today that Ubaldo Jimenez is the player of the week for the National League.Jimenez threw the first no-hitter in Colorado Rockies history on Saturday night against a very good hitting Braves team. He was the definition of effectively wild, walking six batters and striking out seven. The flame-throwing…...
A day later the excitement is starting to sink in for Rockies fans. For years Rockies pitchers struggled to throw a complete game shutout, let alone a no-hitter. The Rockies organization for years was about pounding the baseball and winning baseball games with football scores.The no-hitter underscores once again that the organizations decision to build from within was the right…...
It is a headline that five years ago most baseball people never thought they would see. A Colorado Rockies pitcher has indeed thrown a no-hitter. That pitcher is none other than Ubaldo Jimenez. The 26 year-old Dominican shutout the Braves 4-0 in Atlanta on Saturday night.Jimenez mixed an upper-90’s fastball along with effective off speed pitches and kept Braves hitters…...
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