The Rockies’ road to postseason perdition has been all too familiar this summer.
Respectable within in the friendly confines of Coors Field, the Rockies turn punchless once they leave the thin air of the Front Range.
While they did land a few haymakers in Tuesday night’s series opener at St. Louis, including three RBIs from Charlie Blackmon and two runs from feel-good rookie Wynton Bernard, Busch Stadium transformed into the same house of horrors that has haunted the Rockies for years.
And this one came with a particularly cruel ending: The Cardinals walking off 5-4 winners after reliever Dinelson Lamet plunked Tyler O’Neill with an errant slider with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth.