Rockies outfielder Drew Stubbs is striking out at an alarming rate. In 50 at-bats, he’s struck out 30 times and walked just three times. (Denver Post file photo)
14 … 14 … 18 … 11 … 11 … 11.
Those are the Rockies’ strikeout totals over their last six games. That’s a lot of Ks.
According to Drew Creasman of the , the Rockies became only the 11th team in the last 100 years to have six straight games of double-digit strikeouts.
The Rockies whiffed 54 times in their four-game series at the Los Angeles Dodgers that concluded Sunday in L.A. That was a Rockies’ team record.
When they struck out 18 times last Friday against Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw and five relievers, it was a franchise record for the most strikeouts in a nine-inning game.
Manager Walt Weiss has repeatedly said that his team’s two-strike approach at the plate has been wanting. Tuesday, I asked Weiss if the outbreak of Ks could also be the result of the players pressing too hard during the losing streak and trying to do too much in one at-bat.
Weiss said there is something to the theory.
“Sometimes guys feel the weight of the world in their at-bat if we’re not scoring runs, like it’s up to them,” he said. “Then the next guy goes up there and feels that it’s up to him. That can be contagious, infectious. So that could be part of it.”
Finally, here is a final conundrum facing the Rockies. They are hitting .262 as a team, fifth in the National League. But they have scored just 135 runs — 14th in the National League.
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