SB Nation Denver - Ubaldo And The Rockies Finish Off The Sweep, Beat The Cardinals 4-2https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/48907/denver-fave.png2010-07-08T17:51:21-06:00http://denver.sbnation.com/rss/stream/13230312010-07-08T17:51:21-06:002010-07-08T17:51:21-06:00Ubaldo And The Rockies Finish Off The Sweep, Beat The Cardinals 4-2
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Denver, CO (<a href="http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/events/54859/recap/108711" target="_blank"><b>Sports Network</b></a>) - <span>Ubaldo Jimenez</span> worked eight solid innings and <span>Jason Giambi</span> chipped in with four hits and two runs batted in to lead Colorado to a 4-2 win over St. Louis in the last of a three-game set.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Jimenez (15-1) yielded a lone run on three hits while walking two and striking out six, as the <a style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #c61c17; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " href="http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/teams/COL" class="sbn-auto-link">Rockies</a> did not need any ninth inning dramatics to finish off the series sweep. <span>Huston Street</span> earned his third save of the season despite giving up a run in the ninth.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span>Dexter Fowler</span> added two hits and scored a run and <span>Brad Hawpe</span> collected a pair of hits and drove in a run for Colorado, which has won four straight and six out of seven.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span>Chris Carpenter</span> (9-3) absorbed the loss after allowing four runs on nine hits over six frames, while walking two and striking out three for the <a style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #c61c17; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " href="http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/teams/STL" class="sbn-auto-link">Cardinals</a>, who have lost four out of five.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Fowler and <span>Jonathan Herrera</span> opened the home first with singles before <span>Carlos Gonzalez</span> struck out. Giambi and Brad Hawpe then delivered run-scoring singles to put the Rockies on top 2-0.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Giambi singled with one out in the third, advanced to third base on a Hawpe double and scored on a <span>Miguel Olivo</span> sacrifice fly.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Jimenez retired 11 straight batters before <span>Jon Jay</span> led off the fifth with a double, moved to third on a ground out and scored on Brendan Ryan's ground out to second base to trim the lead to 3-1.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Gonzalez led off the home fifth with a double and scored when Giambi served a single into shallow left to extend Colorado's lead back to three.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Jimenez retired the side in order again in the sixth and got <span>Yadier Molina</span> to ground into an inning-ending double play in the seventh with runners at the corners.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">After a walk to pinch-hitter <span>Randy Winn</span>, the right-hander struck out <span>Skip Schumaker</span> and <span>Felipe Lopez</span> to end the eighth inning and his performance.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span>Albert Pujols</span> doubled with one out in the ninth and scored on a two-out double to left by Jay off the glove of a diving Gonzalez in left. Street then set down Molina on a ground ball to end the game.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">The Rockies have won 11 of the last 12 meetings between the teams...Jimenez is the first National League pitcher since Greg Maddux in 1988 to win 15 games prior to the All-Star Game...He has posted a club record nine straight winning decisions since his lone loss on May 9 against the <a style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #c61c17; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " href="http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/teams/LOS" class="sbn-auto-link">Dodgers</a>...Giambi played in the 2,000th game of his career on Thursday and had his first four-hit game since September 12, 2003 against Tampa Bay when he was a member of the <a style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #c61c17; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " href="http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/teams/NYY" class="sbn-auto-link">Yankees</a>...Carpenter suffered his first loss in six career starts against the Rockies...The Cardinals fell to 36-43 all-time in Denver, including 31-36 at Coors Field.</p>
https://denver.sbnation.com/2010/7/8/1559810/rockies-cardinals-ubaldo-score-recap-july-8Jon Woods2010-07-08T11:07:46-06:002010-07-08T11:07:46-06:00Rockies Look To Capture Elusive Series Sweep in Jimenez-Carpenter Match-Up
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<p>(Sports Network) - The good news for a <a href="https://www.vivaelbirdos.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">St. Louis Cardinals</a> team that's been handed back-to-back stinging defeats to the <a href="https://www.purplerow.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Colorado Rockies</a> is that it will have <span>Chris Carpenter</span> on the mound for the finale of this three-game series. The bad news is the struggling club will have to deal with <a href="https://www.purplerow.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Rockies</a> ace <span>Ubaldo Jimenez</span> when it returns to Coors Field this afternoon.</p>
<p>This trip to Denver has been a nightmare so far for the <a href="https://www.vivaelbirdos.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Cardinals</a>, with the defending National League Central champions having squandered big leads in both losses in this set. After Colorado struck for nine ninth-inning runs to rally for an improbable 12-9 victory on Tuesday, the Rockies erased an early five-run deficit last night and came through with an 8-7 decision on <span>Chris Iannetta</span>'s solo home run in the bottom of the ninth.</p>
<p>With the contest knotted at 7-7, Iannetta greeted rookie reliever Evan McLane by crushing a 3-2 pitch over the wall in left to start Colorado's half of the ninth. It was the Rockies' third consecutive win in their final at-bat, a stretch that began with a 15-inning triumph over San Francisco on Sunday.</p>
<p>The Rockies trailed 5-0 after 4 1/2 innings of Wednesday's tilt but got back in it with a three-run fifth. Down 8-5 entering the bottom of the eighth, Colorado drew even on <span>Dexter Fowler</span>'s three-run homer off <span>Jason Motte</span> with one out in the frame.</p>
<p>"[If] we're down early, we're going to start chipping away. That's been our mind set all year," said Rockies shortstop <span>Clint Barmes</span>.</p>
<p><span>Ian Stewart</span> contributed to the comeback by knocking in three runs on a pair of singles, while <span>Brad Eldred</span> went 3-for-4 and scored three times for Colorado. <span>Jonathan Herrera</span> and <span>Carlos Gonzalez</span> also collected three hits each on the evening.</p>
<p>Eldred had been recalled from Triple-A Colorado Springs prior to the game to take the roster spot of <span>Todd Helton</span>, placed on the disabled list due to a stiff back.</p>
<p>Former Rockies star <span>Matt Holliday</span> finished 4-for-5 with a pair of solo homers and four runs scored for the reeling Cardinals, who have now dropped five of their last seven tilts and fell three games back of first-place Cincinnati in the NL Central with last night's setback. <span>Jon Jay</span> had three hits and also drove in a pair of runs in a losing cause.</p>
<p>St. Louis starter <span>Jaime Garcia</span> allowed four runs (two earned) over the first 5 1/3 innings and was in line for the win, but the bullpen surrendered four runs in the eighth and ninth frames in a second straight poor showing.</p>
<p>"It's a tough loss," said Cards manager Tony La Russa. "We did a lot of good things, but we just couldn't shut them down in the end."</p>
<p>St. Louis has now lost in 10 of its last 11 meetings with the Rockies and is 1-6 at Coors Field over that stretch.</p>
<p>The task doesn't figure to get any easier for the Cardinals today. Jimenez enters the finale with a sensational 14-1 record and 2.27 earned run average over his 17 starts of 2010, although the All-Star righty hasn't been on top of his game as of late.</p>
<p>Jimenez has allowed 17 runs in 17 2/3 innings over his past three starts after posting an unbelievable 1.15 ERA through his first 14 outings. In his most recent mound trip, the hard-throwing standout was tagged for seven runs in a six-inning no-decision against San Francisco last Saturday.</p>
<p>The native Dominican is 5-0 in seven home starts this year, but has given up a total of 13 runs over the course of his last two Coors Field efforts. Lifetime against the Cardinals, Jimenez is 1-2 with a 4.32 ERA in four appearances.</p>
<p>Carpenter also earned a spot on this year's NL All-Star squad after amassing a 9-2 record to go along with a 3.16 ERA in 18 assignments. The 2005 NL Cy Young Award recipient has also been terrific when pitching at Coors Field in the past, having yielded just one run over 14 1/3 innings in two previous starts there, and boasts a 3-0 mark with an 0.75 ERA in five lifetime encounters with Colorado.</p>
<p>Like Jimenez, Carpenter does come into tonight's clash off a subpar showing, as the veteran righty was rocked for eight runs (seven earned) and nine hits before exiting after three innings of a home loss to Milwaukee last Saturday. He had recorded five consecutive winning decisions prior to that outcome.</p>
<p>The Rockies have won three straight and seven of their last nine tests and have moved into a tie for second place in the NL West, three games behind division-leading San Diego.</p>
https://denver.sbnation.com/2010/7/8/2317630/rockies-look-to-capture-elusive-series-sweep-in-jimenez-carpenterRuss Oates