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The Rockies put together a mini two game win streak by taking two straight from the Cardinals, this one by a score of 9-3. A four run outburst, continuing the hot hitting from the previous night, put the Rockies up and they never trailed in the game.
Jorge De La Rosa used the early support to [...]

The Rockies got a big win Wednesday night. Trailing 3-0 going into the bottom of the eighth, the Rockies needed a spark to start something quickly. They got it, and reeled off four runs to win 4-3.
Jason Isringhausen picked up the blown save and the loss, and Justin Speier picked up his first win. Adam [...]

Rick Ankiel provided the offensive firepower, and the cannon attached to his left shoulder shot down the Rockies twice. Ankiel hit a solo homer in the eighth that proved to be the difference in a 6-5 game. He also threw out Willy Tavares attempting to tag up and move to third. Then added another incredible [...]

The Rockies lost a hard fought game 6-5 to the Cardinals Monday night. The game was back and forth the whole way, the teams going run for run until Albert Pujols scored on a groundout in the ninth and the Rockies could not match it in the bottom of the inning.
Ubaldo Jimenez had a good [...]

Aaron Cook won his fifth game of the season beating the Dodgers 7-2 Sunday. He threw 7.2 innings, allowing 9 hits to the Dodgers offense that had been on a tear lately. He did not walk a batter in the game and had a hit of his own.
The top of the order was huge for [...]

Jeff Francis dropped to 0-3 on the season after a loss to the Dodgers 11-6 last night. He went 5.1 innings before leaving the game. He allowed six hits and four runs in the ballgame. The Rockies jumped out to an early 3-0 lead before the Dodgers exploded for seven runs in the top of [...]

The good news is, more voters picked Matt Holliday at least second on their ballot then any other player in the National League.  The bad news is, only eleven of those 27 votes were first place ones and Jimmy Rollins 16 first place votes carried the day.  Holliday was a closer to Rollins in first [...]