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Friday Pebble Report: Three Rockies affiliates go down in defeat in playoff contests
Modesto 6, Bakersfield 13 (series tied, 1-1) Christian Friedrich struck out ten in five innings, but Bakersfield's Sam Lynn Ballpark proved too much for him and Nuts relievers as the Blaze hit five home runs on their way to a big victory. Friedrich gave up two of the HR's and three runs overall in...
Monday Pebble Report: Tim Wheeler comes one base short of a cycle in Tri-City; Walk-off wins in C. Springs and Asheville.
Colorado Springs: W 3-2 Alan Johnson put in a solid effort for seven innings. He allowed a pair of runs with an 11-4 groundout ratio, six hits, a walk and five strikeouts. The Sky Sox kept even with Portland until Matt Murton scored the winning run in the bottom of the tenth on a Christian Colonel...
Friday Pebble Report: Brandon Hynick leads shutout, rehabbers shine in the Springs
Colorado Springs: W 3-0 Brandon Hynick pitched seven scoreless innings, allowing just five hits, zero walks while striking out four as the Sky Sox defeated Sacramento on Thursday night. Jeff Baker hit a home run and doubled and scored twice while Yorvit Torrealba had a pair of hits and two RBI and...
Tuesday Rockpile: Tim Wheeler inked, more on club's national attention and Ian Snell
More Streak Buster Olney: Diagnostics a key to Colorado's surge - ESPNESPN notices of course. Olney quotes Aaron Cook as crediting increased focus, concentration and a looser clubhouse for the streak. He also notes that Bob Apodaca helped find a huge flaw in Cook's delivery following his...
Thursday Rockpile: What it will take to sign Matzek, and oh yeah, we're winning. A lot.
So the Rockies win streak continues, the draft continues, and our fretting over whether top pick Tyler Matzek will sign or not continues, this is all still a much better position to be in than we were a month ago. Back to the middle link in the above sentence to a Troy E. Renck blog entry at the DP...
Wednesday Rockpile: Rockies Win Sixth Straight, Draft Day Aftermath
Yesterday the Rockies won their season high sixth game in a row and had arguably the best draft in MLB, getting three top 20 talents. It was a heck of a day to be a Rockies fan. First, let's look at the big league club. Dogged pursuit earns 6th win for Rox - The Denver Post: The Rockies came from...
Monday Rockpile: June boom instead of June swoon? What a difference a week makes for Woody Paige
Two-run sac fly, but nice play by Gonzalez eliminates double - The Denver PostThis wrap-up of the game concentrates on Ubaldo Jimenez's strong start. After every game, U-Ball talks with Pedro Martinez. Let's hope Pedro isn't telling him to get into a smackdown with old coaches sitting on the...
San Francisco Giants Draft Preview, Part V: Hitters
It's been about twelve hours since anyone's linked to this thread. This time the point isn't to highlight how mortified a lot of us were at the thought of another high school pitcher, but rather to show how hitter goofy most of us were just two years ago. We talked about Beau Mills like teenage...
The 2009 MLB Draft's College Hitters Crop
It's a prospect-nik's favorite time of year, as the draft is upon us. Just one more day and there will be no more mock drafts and no more rumors. Just the draft and a bunch of knee-jerk reactions. We determined in our draft study that college hitters, on average as a group, are slightly more...
Friday Rockpile: Rockies in a funk, draft speculation starts
With some changes to a line or two to The Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Loving Feeling": You've lost that winning feeling, Whoa, that winning feeling, You've lost that winning feeling, Now it's gone...gone...gone...whoa-oh. Another game, another loss. It starts to get to the fans,...
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