The Rockies ruined what was supposed to be a day of celebration for the Giants. Good job Rockies.
The Rockies lost a game they should have won on Sunday. Today, they won a game they probably should have lost. This is the ebb and flow of a baseball season.
Eddie Butler pretty much defined the phrase "effectively wild" in this game. In just his fifth career start, he walked six, hit a batter, allowed five hits, and threw almost exactly as many balls (46) as strikes (47); but he somehow kept the all important run category clean thanks to three very important factors
1) The ground ball
2) Angel Pagan's aggressiveness
3) Air tight defense
All but one out in Butler's first four innings of work came via the ground out.