![]() ![]() “I just wanted to go over there and give him a huge hug, which I did later on,” said Belisle, who gave up a one-out RBI single to Mike Cameron. They got another in the ninth when Lowell’s ball nearly scooted past Barmes before he snared it on the dive. The Rockies haven’t caught many breaks this season. “It’s nice to have one of those hops go our way.” “Then, when it got hard all over the field, there were some pretty good divots. “It was just beating on the infield and it usually doesn’t dry up like that for a night game,” said Barmes, noting some spots stayed damp early on and got chewed up. But he said the early start and sun beating down on the infield conspired to make defense an adventure. Lester lost for the first time since April 18 despite allowing just one earned run and six hits-all singles-in six spectacular innings.īarmes said he’d never seen a bad hop at Coors Field like the one Spilborghs’ grounder took over Scutaro’s head. Jhoulys Chacin (4-6) walked five and allowed four singles in 6 2-3 scoreless innings for Colorado. With that gold-star play, Matt Belisle earned his first save since July 4, 2005, for Cincinnati at San Francisco. “I wish I would have hit a line drive up the middle and made it simple, but that’s how baseball works and I’ll take it.” His locket of hair was there,” Spilborghs cracked. “My lucky hit? That was the ghost of ‘Tulo’s mullet coming into play. That allowed Todd Helton to score what turned out to be the decisive run. Rockies shortstop Clint Barmes, subbing for injured star Troy Tulowitzki, cheated to his right and snared Mike Lowell’s hard-hit grounder in the hole, rolled and fired to first to beat the runner slowed by an ailing hip for the final out.īarmes had to slide when the ball took a bad hop at the last moment, just like the one Colorado’s Ryan Spilborghs hit in the eighth that took a wicked hop over shortstop Marco Scutaro’s head just as he was about to scoop it up for an inning-ending double play. It was on that caked dirt that the Rockies caught two huge breaks to win their interleague series opener against the team that popped the champagne on its 2007 World Series title the last time they came to town. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close MenuĭENVER-Ninety minutes after the Colorado Rockies’ 2-1 win over Jon Lester and the Boston Red Sox, a groundskeeper was still flooding the left side of the infield with a high-powered hose. ![]()
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