This road trip to Miami has served as a gut check for the Rockies. They lost their best pitcher, Tyler Chatwood, to injury on Saturday, and after a 3-0 defeat on Sunday, Colorado has lost the first three games of the four-game series.
That fourth game will be played on Monday night, and the team hopes they can salvage a win and not fall too far behind the Dodgers and Giants in the NL West.
“They feel down there they are just incapable on generating any offense,” said Ed Henderson, Rockies insider and MLB scout, who joined Sean Walsh on the Weekend Drive on Mile High Sports AM 1340 | FM 104.7. “They just haven’t been able to do anything, I think they have had one good inning of offense down there in the three game series.”
This might be an altitude-change problem for the Rockies. Coors Field sits at the highest altitude of any stadium in the MLB and Marlins Park is one of the lowest, only 15 feet above sea level. The elevation change can affect many different aspects of the game. For one, the ball does not fly as far in the humid air of Florida, which can change the way an offense is run.
“That ballpark there is just not one that is conducive to the kind of offense that the Rockies have,” said Henderson. “They just seem to struggle constantly in Miami.”
In the last 16 meetings between the two, the Rockies have gone 5-11. Thankfully, this is the last time the Rockies will go to Miami this season, but the Marlins will come to the thin air of the Mile High City in August, when the Rockies can look to give them a taste of their own home-field advantage.
Check the rest of the conversation where Ed Henderson discusses the Rockies’ latest injuries and the José Reyes situation …
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