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Home or away, our Colorado Rockies are on quite a roll. Kaz Matsui hit his first career grand slam and drove in five runs, leading the Rockies over the Philadelphia Phillies 10-5 Thursday for a 2-0 lead in their NL playoff series. Matsui connected off scheduled Game 4 starter Kyle Lohse, who came in to relieve struggling rookie Kyle Kendrick in the fourth inning. At this rate, the best-of-five series may not get that far. Rookie Ubaldo Jimenez will try to pitch Colorado to a sweep Saturday night at Coors Field against veteran Jamie Moyer. And then it's on to Arizona, hopefully.
It's thrilling to see the best relief pitcher on your team raise a cup of water to his lips and miss. Actually, Corpus was accused yesterday of pouring sticky 7-up inside his jersey. Then he can make his fingers sticky to enhance the pitch during the game. The purest water there is a ballpark coke. No harm, no foul. The umpire in Philadelphia hates night games. The lights make it hard to sleep.
Kyle Lohse said, "I thought I had good stuff today," but his manager said, "the batters on the other team liked it." He's working on a new pitch. When he has it down pat, it'll reach the plate.
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