Yes, but they were totally shelled the game before despite a rested pitching staff. The Rockies staff didn't have to face lineups teams like NYY, Boston, Cleve, LAL or Det regularly. There were two decent offensive clubs in the NL, and one is there own club. Just look at the division they had (much of their win streak and ERA record built on), by far the weakest division offensively if not just inept once you got past Colorado. It is no big feat to keep the Dbacks to a 1 or 2 run game--and I say this as a fan of them. I still wouldn't be surprised if it goes 6, but Boston is clearly the superior all around club, most profoundly in the starting pitching. It would take a monumental collapse of some great Boston pitchers to turn this thing aound.
The point was made that the Rockies pitched over their heads and it was now catching up with them. They've played 2 games in the WS. One game they got shelled. The next won the pitching kept them in the game and the bats didn't get it done.
I think the Rockies will win one game, but that's about it...Too much momentum and too good of a line-up to face...
Whats funny is that if this was pre-2004, everyone on here would be coming up with all the reasons the Sox Curse would make them choke the lead. Now everyone is talking about how it is over...Ive grown up with the whole curse thing and now it is just odd to not hear about it anymore.
The curse has been reversed. Now there is a new one: the curse of A-Rod. Every team he played for got worse until he left. Every team he left got immediately better the following year. The first year he joined the Yankees, Red Sox broke 86 years WS title drought and beat Yankees from 0-3 in ALCS, which hasn't been done before in baseball history. The next two years Yankees were out in ALDS 2-3 and 1-3. This year they even lost the division title for the first time in 9 years. This guy is a great player, but he just has some serious bad luck. On the current WS, I confirmly believe Red Sox will sweep the Rockies. Red Sox is a much better team and they have the momentum. And unlike A-Rod, Ortiz and Manny are proven hitters in the playoffs.
an amazing run. I still would have liked to seen them play without that huge delay. Probably wouldnt have mattered and boston is a better team, but that rockies run i just felt was unstoppable.
There would have been at least a 3-4 day delay anyways because the Rockies swept and the Sox had to go to seven, but I still think it wouldn't have made that big of a difference. Colorado would have won one, maybe two games at most without the delay.
Kinda feels like that Astros run a couple years back except the Stros at least put up a fight in every game. The Rockies are just getting hammered.
This series just shows you that the elite of the AL are just better than the best that the NL has to offer these days.
So did last year's dominance by St. Louis show that the NL's "elite" was better than the best of the AL last year?
If the Sox dont have a Yankee style collapse, this would be two in four seasons. Im thinking dynasty...
I still think the Rockies will win at least tonight. They might have won that game if it weren't for Fuentes puking it in the 7th. I hope they can at least avoid having Boston celebrate in Denver.
how might they have won a game that they were down 6-5? fuentes gave up three more insurance runs to the Sox (in the 8th) but it wouldnt have mattered. for that one moment though, when holliday hit the three run dinger, the game was exciting...for that one moment...
