Getting your player ready...
Ubaldo Jimenez’s abbreviated outing can be traced to working overtime against all-star Brian McCann and rookie Freddie Freeman. Jimenez needed 117 pitches to record 16 outs, an unsettling ratio. The problem? He threw 44 pitches to McCann and Freeman in their six plate appearances against him.
Mouse potato.
Todd Helton got plenty of online clicks in the Final Man balloting for the All-Star Game. He sat in third place behind Shane Victorino and Andre Ethier. The voting concludes Thursday at 2 p.m. MDT.
Short story.
After replacing Troy Tulowitzki, Jonathan Herrera committed an error on a relay throw, but made a terrific catch and throw from the hole to erase Alex Gonzalez at first base in the seventh.
