These are rough times for all the sadists taking pleasure in the Colorado Rockies’ historically bad April.
A team that couldn’t do anything right in the opening month of the season is now red hot, having won six of its last seven games after bludgeoning the New York Mets 13-6 at Citi Field on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
Rookie center fielder Brenton Doyle showed off his power and speed in a three-hit, three-RBI, three-run day, reaching on a pair of infield singles, stealing a base and smacking his first big-league home run.
Randal Grichuk and Kris Bryant mashed dingers of their own — the latter part of a seven-run fifth inning — and Colorado scored a season-high 13 runs on 14 hits to overcome an erratic start from Ryan Feltner.