Summertime, summertime, sum sum summertime…

That time of year we afternoon in Coors Field & cheer our local Rockies.  First year watching the Braves.  Crushed ‘em the night before 17-2, so expecting only good things.  Something new?  A winning record.  Rockies have been last or next-to-last EVERY year I’ve lived in Colorado.  Proudly (despite that dismal stat), boast a 4-2 personal attendance record 🙂

Game Day 2017 – Ash & Tom: Coors Light, Coors Field.  Me/family chauffeur: SmartWater & nachos.

Top of the 6^th, Happy Birthday Jim scrolled the Big Board [PS Audio’s ‘El Presidente’].  Not that I’m über competitive but – daytime skies will darken on MY day, Monday.  HA!  (August 21^st: the Great American Eclipse)

Seventh-inning stretch.  Said our goodbyes & stretched back home.  Homies got clobbered!

Aw well, there’s always next summer.

2017 – Braves 10, Rockies 4

2016 – Devil Rays 11, Rockies 3

2015 – Rockies 6, Diamondbacks 4

2014 (Jul) – Rockies 6, Padres 3

2014 (May) – Rockies 10, Mets 3

2013 – Rockies 10, Padres 9 (bottom of 9th homer)

2012 – A’s 8, Rockies 2

Nolan Arenado leaves with injury, Rockies get blown out by Braves 10-4

Other than that, the Rockies had a great afternoon.

 

by Hayden Kane@hwkane  Aug 17, 2017, 5:03pm MDT

 

 

The Colorado Rockies ended an up-and-down series with the Atlanta Braves on a decidedly sour note Thursday afternoon. Nolan Arenado left the game early with an apparent re-injury to his left hand, and the pitching fell apart as Atlanta won by a final score of 10-4.

 

Pitching lapses in two innings cost the Rockies dearly in this one. Starter Jeff Hoffman surrendered back-to-back home runs to Ender Inciarte and Freddie Freeman in the top of the 5th inning. That broke a tie and made the score 4-2. Things were still in reach at that point, but things really fell apart in the 7th inning.

 

Mike Dunn, who has been a good reliever lately, regressed back to being a bad reliever on this day. The inconsistent lefty allowed three runs and recorded just one out. He handed things to Adam Ottavino, and unfortunately he did not fare any better, allowing three runs of his own.

 

That made for six runs total in the frame, turning this game lopsided and erasing the good vibes of the blowout in the other direction just one day earlier.