Bud Black spoke about the young starting pitchers for the Rockies on Friday afternoon as if he was providing a word bank for a Mad Lib puzzle.
His crisp, one-word sentences provided some simplification to the confounding performances by the young hurlers who have helped lead the Rockies to the top of the National League.
Antonio Senzatela’s sterling outing in a 10-0 victory over the Cardinals in front of 40,312 at Coors Field provided another crisp canvas to paint with his manager’s vocabulary.
Here’s one way to fill it out:
Senzatela once again displayed the “competitiveness” that has been a hallmark of his rookie season, tossing eight scoreless innings and surrendering only four hits.