The Rockies have been feeble on the road all season. Thursday night, Spencer Strider made them look helpless.
Atlanta’s sensational rookie right-hander struck out 16 to set a new Atlanta Braves franchise record and allowed just two hits over his eight innings.
The Braves won, 3-0, to take the three-game series.
“You’re asking me what it is about him? It’s about the stuff,” manager Bud Black told reporters in Atlanta. “It’s a powerful fastball, with velocity. It’s a breaking pitch that has good action to it and I thought it got better as the game went on.