Getting your player ready...
Jeff Francis was riding a four-start streak in which he had pitched into the seventh inning or completed seven. But in his last two starts, he has lasted a total of seven. His ERA in those two games has risen from 3.53 to 5.12.
Wild weather.
There was an eerie aspect to Tuesday’s game at Coors Field, thanks to that famous Colorado weather. The temperature had dropped 14 degrees — from 81 to 67 — an hour into the game, and the wind had picked up to 27 mph from 4 mph.
In like Clint.
Clint Barmes rode the roller coaster, stranding five runners in the third and fifth after an infield single that enabled him to match his career-high, 13-game hitting streak.
Jim Armstrong, The Denver Post
