Manager Clint Hurdle

Troy Tulowitzki lined a fastball into center field off James McDonald with one out and the bases loaded in the 10th to give the Colorado Rockies a wild, 5-4 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the opener of a crucial three-game series Tuesday night. Matt Herges (1-0) picked up with win with a perfect 10th as the Rockies, who trailed the Dodgers by 15 1/2 games on June, 3 sliced L.A.'s lead in the NL West to just two games. Colorado (72-54), the NL wild-card leader, moved 18 games over .500 for the first time in their history, besting the 90-73 mark they ... Read Full Story

Carlos Gonzalez homered for the fourth straight game and Clint Barmes connected in his third in a row, helping the Colorado Rockies beat the Washington Nationals 5-4 on Wednesday night. Gonzalez has homered in six of the last eight games. Before this stretch, he had six homers in 130 career games. His latest landed above the Nationals' out-of-town scoreboard in right field to lead off the eighth inning. The NL wild card-leading Rockies won despite leaving the bases loaded three times and improved to a season-high 14 games over .500 with a 67-53 record. Jason Marquis (14-8) gave up nine hits and three runs ... Read Full Story

The Los Angeles Dodgers used two big innings — a seven-run fourth and an eight-run seventh — to rout the Colorado Rockies 16-6 on Monday. James Loney, Russell Martin, Juan Castro and Matt Kemp had three hits each and Juan Pierre had a bases-loaded triple for the Dodgers, who matched their season high with 19 hits. Will Ohman (1-0), the third pitcher for Los Angeles, picked up the win. Brad Hawpe had two doubles and three RBIs for the Rockies. The Dodgers sent 11 batters to the plate in the fourth to break open a scoreless game. Orlando Hudson, Casey Blake, Kemp and Loney ... Read Full Story

Brad Hawpe's two-run homer was part of Colorado's three-run ninth inning and the Rockies rallied for a 3-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday night. Hawpe hit a 1-1 pitch from Matt Capps into the shrubbery beyond the wall in center field wall, scoring Ian Stewart, who led off the inning with a pinch-hit double. It was Hawpe's sixth homer and it gave him 11 RBIs in his last five games. Capps (0-3) blew his second save in his last four appearances. Making his third outing since sitting out a week due to elbow fatigue, Capps has allowed nine runs and 15 hits ... Read Full Story

The last time I blogged about the Rockies they were 0 & 7, now a week later the Rockies have managed to find life as they broke their winless streak on Fri beating the San Deigo Padres 13 to 11 — ‘course they lost their Exhibition game vs Vinny Castilla’s Mexico team the previous day — but still, they won Fri & Saturday’s game vs the Giants 9 to 7; it was Deja-vu again today as the Rox played the Padres & won 4 to 2. Great news about that game is Todd Helton homered! Before Fri’s game vs the Padres, Rockies manager Clint ... Read Full Story