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The talent was never in doubt. Jorge De La Rosa has as good of stuff as any left-hander in the league. The only one who ever doubted that was De La Rosa himself. Not anymore. The lefty mixed 94-mph fastballs with 83-mph change-ups that kept the Padres guessing all day long as the Rockies rolled to a 7-0 victory in front of a record ...

Opening Day is Christmas to a baseball fan. It marks the end of a long, cold winter and the beginning of a new baseball team and renewed hope. Opening Day is when fans come down with a sickness that can only be cured with a Rockie Dog and a sunburn. Opening Day is similar to late September, when everyone is a fan of their team and is rooting hard ...

When this Colorado Rockies team was put together, it was heralded as a young club with veteran leadership. The two would combine to produce fundamentally sound defense and clutch hitting on offense. That could not have been further from the truth on Wednesday as the Rockies dropped the rubber match of a three game series with the Brewers 5-4. Even in the first inning, which entailed a 41-pitch effort from Brewers ...

Ubaldo Jimenez lived up to the hype on Monday in Milwaukee. The Rockies defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 5-3 to spoil Opening Day for the 45,808 Brewer faithful at Miller Park, the second-largest crowd in the history of the stadium. With all the fanfare involved with Opening Day, Jimenez stole the show. The righty worked six strong innings, pumping a steady fastball past the Brewers hitters. He never hit below 96 ...

Just as Jeff Francis thought that he was over the hump, he showed up at Isotopes Park in Albuquerque, N.M., feeling stiff and sore. The lefty had just completed his best spring outing on Thursday, allowing Rockies fans to breathe a sigh of relief. His velocity was back up to where it needed to be, and his changeup was hitting its spots. Unfortunately for the Rockies, he may have pushed a ...

The Colorado Rockies wrapped up their home spring training schedule on Thursday. They bid adieu to Hi Corbett Field, the only spring home the franchise has known since its inception in 1993, and depart Tucson, Ariz., for the final time. While excitement for the season heats up, the news on closer Huston Street was sobering. After coming to spring training feeling great, then getting sore, shutting it down, starting over, feeling ...

The 2010 Colorado Rockies face a challenge that no other Rockies team before them has faced. They are blazing trails that some baseball fans in the Rocky Mountain region once felt were impossible to blaze. This 2010 Rockies team is dealing with a word never thrust upon them before: Expectations . Sure, the 2008 team had their fair share of excitement surrounding them. Fans rummaged through all of their ...

For years Major League pitchers have been cringing about taking the mound at Coors Field. Veterans who had been extremely successful on other teams around the league watched their career ERA's vanish into the thin mile high air of Denver after they signed deals with the Rockies. It was bad enough that many baseball experts openly wondered if the Rockies would ever be able to field a team capable of contending. Two things ...

Spring Training injuries are as common as the morning sunrise. Everyday there is a new one. When athletes are actually million dollar investments, there is no reason to push a player who has a bump or a bruise. Six weeks of Spring Training is usually plenty of time to get ready for the everyday grind of the season. If a player feels a twinge in a hamstring, they will sit. Most ...

In 2009, it took the Colorado Rockies nine games before they recorded their first win of the spring. On Thursday, they won their first game of 2010 by a large margin. The Rockies dismantled the host Arizona Diamondbacks 11-1. Jason Hammel started on the mound for the Rockies and gave up one run in two innings. The bats were in mid-season form. Seth Smith led the way for the Rockies, going 3-for-3 with ...