Ask manager Bud Black or any pitcher in the Rockies’ rotation, and they are succinct in their analysis of why the season nearly went off the rails during a disastrous June. Colorado’s starting pitchers had a 5.37 ERA that month, sinking the team to a season-high four games below .500 and as many as eight games back in the National League West.
Bottomline, if Colorado starters didn’t figure it out — and figure it out soon — the team was going to find itself irrelevant in the second half.
“It finally got to the point where, collectively as a staff, it was ‘enough’s enough’ type-talk,” Black said.