Rockies down Halladay, Phils with Olivo’s walk-off in 10th
The Rockies ruined Roy Halladay's Colorado homecoming on Wednesday
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Rockies catcher Miguel Olivo took the first pitch of the 10th Inning deep into the left field bleachers for a huge walk-off 4-3 win on Wednesday afternoon. Olivo was 5 for 5 in the game, and turned a hanging curve ball into a no-doubter for the win.
Roy Halladay got a no-decision in his home-coming trip to Colorado with the Phillies.
Halladay pitched for Arvada West High School northwest of Denver, and this was his first game at Coors field since joining Philadelphia. He is widely considered one of the top three starting pitchers in baseball, but the Rockies hammered Roy for 3 runs on 10 hits.
The Rocks had plenty of motivation to excel.
The Phillies were caught illegally stealing signs at Coors Field on Monday night in Game 1 of this three-game series. MLB failed to issue anything but a warning to the Phillies, who have been accused of illegally stealing signs four times in the last three years.
Couple that with Jim Tracy’s ejection from Wednesday’s day game, and Colorado was ripe for a statement win.
Tracy was ejected after vociferously arguing a bad call in the bottom of the 9th Inning.
Eric Young, Jr appeared to have beaten the throw on an infield hit to short, but First Base Umpire Cory Blaser called him out. EYJ immediately yanked his batting helmet off in frustration, but walked briskly to the dugout to let his manager handle the verbal war.
Tracy laid into Blaser, getting ejected almost immediately. Jim continued to berate the young Umpire until crew chief Phil Cuzzi wandered over to chase him away. Blaser was just called up from Minor League Service, and, oddly enough, is another Colorado native. Blaser was born in Denver and currently resides in Westminster.
Aaron Cook started for the Rockies, giving up 3 runs to break even through 6 Innings on 123 pitches. Joe Beimel pitched to three batters in the top of the 10th for the win. Beimel gave up a lead-off hit to Ryan Howard. However, Jayson Werth hit into a fielders’ choice grounder to nip Howard at 2nd, and Raul Ibanez grounded into a double play to end the Philadelphia threat.
