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When Aaron Cook struggled in spring training, it was chalked up to a veteran working on his pitches. When he struggled in the first two starts of the season, it was chalked up to a sinker-ball pitcher needing to get into a rhythm. After getting shelled for five runs in three innings in the Rockies 5-2 loss to the Nationals on Monday night, the answer is simple: Aaron Cook ...

In a move that should surprise no one, Major League Baseball announced today that Ubaldo Jimenez is the player of the week for the National League. Jimenez threw the first no-hitter in Colorado Rockies history on Saturday night against a very good hitting Braves team. He was the definition of effectively wild, walking six batters and striking out seven. The flame-throwing right-hander threw 128 pitches in the performance, hitting 97 ...

No one wants to be that guy. No one wants to be the person who claims that a team lost because of an umpire or an official. It comes across as a petty excuse for a team not getting the job done. To be fair, the Rockies offense did not score enough runs to win most Major League Baseball games; However, that that does not excuse two incredibly poor calls in ...

A day later, the excitement is starting to sink in for Rockies fans. For years Rockies pitchers struggled to throw a complete-game shutout, let alone a no-hitter. The Rockies organization was about pounding the baseball and winning baseball games with football scores. Ubaldo Jimenez' no-hitter underscores once again that the organization's decision to build from within was the right way to go. To say it took patience is ...

Someone needs to tell the Rockies that it isn't spring training anymore. These games count. For the second time in as many days, the Rockies' starting pitcher could not find his command and, therefore, made it easy for the opposition to pick up an easy win. On Friday, the victim was Jason Hammel, and the final score was 9-5 Braves. Hammel, who had a great spring, never was comfortable on ...

The Colorado Rockies spent six weeks in Tucson stressing fundamentals. Through the first nine games of the season they look like they spent their time in Tucson at the golf course. The Rockies were shut out in the finale of their three-game series against the Mets at Coors Field on Thursday, 5-0. Jorge De La Rosa, who sparkled in the home opener six days ago, struggled to find the plate. ...

A win is a win. It was ugly, as it has been for most of the season so far on defense, but the Rockies beat the hapless Mets 5-4 in 10 innings at Coors Field on Wednesday night. Chris Iannetta launched a home run deep into the center-field bleachers leading off the bottom half of the inning to give the Rockies their first walk-off win of the season. The shot was redeeming for ...

He is known as "the other guy." That's what most fans refer to him as when they talk about the Matt Holliday trade that has turned out to be a lopsided deal in the Colorado Rockies' favor. The conversation generally goes a little like this: "Who did the Rockies get for Matt Holliday?" Answer: "Huston Street and Carlos Gonzalez...oh, and some other guy..." That "other guy" happens to be Greg Smith, and after ...

One of the critiques of Jim Tracy when he managed in both Los Angeles and Pittsburgh was that he micromanaged too much. Rockies fans did not really see that in 2009 after he took over for Clint Hurdle. However, that side of Tracy seems to be coming out, and many Rockies fans are already disapproving. The Colorado Rockies are 3-3. The reality is, the Rockies should be 5-1. They blew a 3-0 ...

  Remember way back when, all the way back in the fourth inning of Saturday night's Rockies game? It was a long time ago, considering the Rockies lost 5-4 in 14 innings. Jason Hammel probably remembers it well. That is when the Padres scored four runs off of the right hander. The only four runs the Padres scored in the first nine frames, the only blip on the radar for an otherwise outstanding Hammel. The whole ...