The Colorado Rockies wind-up their seven-game homestand Sunday afternoon with a 1:10 pm MDT start against the Miami Marlins at Coors Field in downtown Denver. The Rockies will send left-hander Drew Pomeranz (1-7, 5.04) out against Miami’s Josh Johnson (7-9, 3.73) as Colorado looks to finish 5-2 during the home skein and split the four-game series with the Marlins.
Pomeranz will take the hill on seven day’s rest. The Rockies are monitoring his progress closely. The 23 year-old spent May and June with AAA Colorado Springs reforming his delivery and returned to Denver on July 1 for the first of two scoreless 6 inning outings, but with the exception of a four-inning shut-out start against Los Angeles on August 6, he’s bumbled since. He’s battled a “dead arm” and chest pain since late July, and the Rockies plan to be careful with him down the stretch of a lost Colorado season.
Johnson, a righty who went head-to-head with former Rockie Ubaldo Jimenez in a 2010 first half display of pitching wizardry, has only allowed 4 earned runs in his past 5 starts, and took the loss for Miami on Tuesday when Jimmy Rollins of the Phillies homered off him on the second pitch of a game that Philadelphia won 1-0.
It’ll be a pleasant afternoon in Lodo with temperatures ranging from 77 to 81° F under partly cloudy skies. Relative humidity will be around 22% with winds out of the north-northeast at 7 MPH. Rockies TV is as usual on ROOT Sports with the radio broadcast on KOA 850 am.
The Rockies returned Michael Cuddyer to the 15 -day Disabled List and recalled outfielder Andrew Brown from the Sky Sox. Colorado MFL Jim Tracy has Ramon Hernandez at clean-up, catching, Charlie Blackmon making his first MLB start of 2012 in right-field, and Jonny Herrera at second-base. Marlins’ manager Ozzie Guillen has Emilio Bonifacio and Donnie Murphy coming-off the DL. Both are starting, Bonifacio leading-off in center-field and Murphy hitting sixth at third. Justin Ruggiano will play left-field for Miami and John Buck is back behind the plate.
IN GAME CHAT
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It’s a little late to trade Cuddyer. Looks like he’s going back on the DL http://colorado.rockies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120819&content_id=36958014&vkey=news_col&c_id=col
I was just checking the standings,
and the Rockies are now 1 game behind the Cubs for the 14th best record in the NL. Go Rockies!
That’s correct, Miketober, but the more important thing is that the Rockies magic number to with the West is down to 62. It was a great homestand…against a couple of weak teams, mind you. But at this point, we’ll take anything positive. BTW, what a great win for Hurdle’s Buccos. I watched the 16-19th innings. The way the Pirates scored in the 17th to take the lead and have the Cards come right back with a run in the bottom… Read more »