Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of Coors Field, and today is Dinger’s birthday. Unfortunately, the Rockies did not give either of them a happy birthday present.
Yesterday, they lost 6-4 to the Cincinnati Reds; today, they were nearly no-hit and also nearly shutout. If not for Jordan Beck, both of those things would have happened.
But they still lost 8-1.
Blalock was serviceable-ish until he wasn’t
Bradley Blalock had a weird first inning. He got leadoff man TJ Friedl to line out to third, but then gave up back-to-back singles to Spencer Steer and Elly De La Cruz, who then moved up on a wild pitch.