Tag: baseball
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Paul Klee: Despite bullpen breakdowns, Rockies in position to win NL West. Can they close?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER • There’s history at work here, and a cold, hard history makes a person learn to expect the worst. Going a quarter century without a division title does things to a baseball fan. It changes how you view success (what is this pleasurable feeling?)…
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Paul Klee: Despite bullpen breakdowns, Rockies in position to win NL West. Can they close?
DENVER • There’s history at work here, and a cold, hard history makes a person learn to expect the worst. Going a quarter century without a division title does things to a baseball fan. It changes how you view success (what is this pleasurable feeling?) while failures seem to compound (here we go again…). The…
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Matt Holliday in ‘surreal’ moment with Rockies after signing minor league deal
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER — The Colorado Rockies have signed former star outfielder Matt Holliday to a minor league contract. The 38-year-old Holliday reported to the Grand Junction Rockies, the organization’s Rookie level team on Sunday. He said the plan is to find his footing with the hope…
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David Ramsey: Please, Colorado Springs, let’s not be known as the Rocky Mountain Oysters
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Sky Sox soon will transform from a Triple-A baseball team filled with players just below major league standards to a rookie league team filled with youngsters several steps below Triple-A standards. A massive drop in quality is looming, and it’s massively depressing for genuine…
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David Ramsey: Please, Colorado Springs, let’s be known as Happy Campers, not Rocky Mountain Oysters
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Sky Sox soon will transform from a Triple-A baseball team filled with players just below major league standards to a Single-A rookie team filled with youngsters several steps below Triple-A standards. A massive drop in quality is looming, and it’s massively depressing for genuine…
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Record 10 homers as AL wins All-Star Game in 10 innings
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save WASHINGTON — A record 10 home runs. A slew of strikeouts. The all-or-nothing All-Star Game mirrored what baseball has become. Astros teammates Alex Bregman and George Springer homered on consecutive pitches to begin the 10th inning, and the American League beat the National League 8-6…
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Paul Klee: Are you a Kyle Freeland guy? Colorado Rockies pitcher turning into hometown hero
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER • Hi. My name is Paul, and I’m a Kyle Freeland guy. Anyone else? “I’m a huge Kyle Freeland guy,” Nolan Arenado proclaimed. “Big time!” The exclamation point is necessary. The best third baseman in baseball is directing the bandwagon. Yes, I asked around…
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Sky Sox split one-run games with Cakes
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Rafael Ortega hit an RBI triple in the top of the eighth inning to help lead the New Orleans Baby Cakes to a 6-5 win over the Colorado Springs Sky Sox in the second game…