Clay Hensley

Holy crap! A Dinosaur wearing sneakers! The Colorado Rockies , after fighting tooth and nail to sweep the Arizona Diamondbacks , are headed to their first World Series in franchise history. With their 21st win in 22 games -- a 6-4, Game 4 victory in Colorado Monday -- the Rockies squeezed all their scoring into one neat little pile, with NLCS MVP Matt Holliday 's three-run bomb into the forest topping off the six-run fourth. With two weeks remaining in their regular season, the Rockies stood...Read Full Story

Who are you guys and what have you done with the San Diego Padres ? It didn't matter that their manager and starting catcher had been tossed on Memorial Day, the Padres found a way to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 9-7 and stretch their out-of-the-blue winning streak to ten games. One big hit after another was capped by a 10th-inning Chase Headley two-run rip that helped his team rally from a six-run deficit with just two innings to play. Snapping an 11-game road losing streak, the Pads...Read Full Story

Major League Baseball has suspended umpire Mike Winters for the rest of the season after his instigation of ticking time bomb , San Diego Padres left fielder Milton Bradley . The incident occurred during last Sunday's game against the Colorado Rockies , when Bradley was ejected for arguing with Winters at first base. According to Padres first base coach Bobby Meacham, Winters made the situation worse by swearing at Bradley, who then totally flipped out and tore his ACL... which will keep him...Read Full Story

San Diego Padres righty Clay Hensley has elected to have season-ending surgery Friday morning to repair a tear in his pitching shoulder. After undergoing an MRI in July when the tear was discovered, he tried to pitch through the pain and ended up hurting himself even more. However, the 28-year-old finally decided to end his season in favor of surgery. "At least now I can go into next year healthy and go forward with it and put this year behind me," Hensley said. "I know it wasn't a good...Read Full Story

People are excited about baseball in Colorado for the first time in a long time... at least seven years, which is the last time they had a winning record. Their club has given them a chance at seeing just the second playoff berth in the 15-year history of the franchise after coasting to the longest winning streak in the big leagues this season -- 11 games. Seriously, it can't get much more exciting than this: the Rockies open a season-ending three-game series in Colorado Friday against the...Read Full Story