Colorado Rockies Drop Game One In The Desert On A Walk-Off

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Sep 29, 2015; Phoenix, AZ, USA; Colorado Rockies manager Walt Weiss (22) looks on during the eleventh inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field. Mandatory Credit: Matt Kartozian-USA TODAY Sports

The Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks met Tuesday night in the first game of their three-game series in Phoenix to finish September. 

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Tough one for the Colorado Rockies tonight, and we’re in the final week of the season, so let’s do this recap slightly differently, eh? Not quite as… formal. At least for today.

Anyways, the Rockies lost 4-3 tonight in 11 innings, and the whole thing went down wrong when Brooks Brown walked three straight hitters to begin the bottom half of that frame. He threw 13 pitches — only one strike — before departing with the bases loaded and nobody out, in favor of Christian Friedrich.

Friedrich got an out — on a phenomenal play by Nolan Arenado — and then gave up a seeing eye ground ball single that ended the game. Pretty inevitable, not Friedrich’s fault, and Brooks Brown had a tough game. It happens.

In other news:

  • The bullpen was phenomenal up until Brown, tossing five scoreless innings after starter Christian Bergman exited the game before the sixth inning.
  • Speaking of Bergman, he was pretty good, allowing three runs in five innings and doing well enough to, well, keep the Rockies in the game.
  • The Rockies wasted their best opportunity in the top of the eighth inning, when they had men on first and third with DJ LeMahieu at the plate. Instead of letting LeMahieu hit away, the Rockies elected to run a safety squeeze. Bad move. Nolan got thrown out after a rundown. Rally ruined.
  • Carlos Gonzalez hit his 40th home run in the game, making him the second 40-homer player on the Rockies this year and sticking him exactly one behind Nolan for the league lead.

The Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks are back at it tomorrow night, same bad time, same bad channel, same bad websites, same bad… team.

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