The Ugly: Colorado Rockies Pitching
Entering this series, the San Diego Padres offense was completely embarrassed, and deservingly so, as they were unable to plate a run in the first three games of the 2016 season against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
My, how things have changed for the Padres when they are opposing the pitchers of the Colorado Rockies, as the Padres defeated the host Rockies, 16-3, giving the once-scoreless Padres 29 runs combined in their past two games.
On Saturday night, 14 of the 16 runs the Padres scored were earned runs, beginning with San Diego rocking Jorge De La Rosa for seven runs (all earned) in just four innings. They also forced him to walk five and hit three home runs off the lefty.
The Padres also had three earned runs each against three other Colorado pitchers, plus they had two innings (the fourth and the nine) where they scored six runs each. In all, San Diego totaled 19 hits against the Rockies Saturday, and in the two games thus far in this series, the Rockies have allowed a total of 37 hits and 27 earned runs.
Maybe the season-opening series was a harsh wake-up call for San Diego, but the Rockies are playing embarrassing baseball right now, as they were booed by their home crowd in the ninth inning.
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Get this, for a team who couldn’t plate a single run in the first three games of the season, the Padres have a total of three six-run innings in two games against the Rockies.
Baseball is a strange game, that’s for sure.