Jorge De La Rosa's 101st pitch Friday night, a splitter, broke down toward the dirt at 82 mph to force the leadoff hitter into a routine groundout. Most of his 100 other pitches before it, though, went sideways.
The ice-cold Rockies, in desperate need of a stop from their ace arm, instead got a whimpering five innings of pinball hits and drooled away another loss on a red-hot night at Coors Field.
The last-place Milwaukee Brewers, losers of six in a row coming in, trounced the last-place Rockies 9-5 in front of 35,841 fans, handing Colorado its ninth loss in its last 10 games and fifth in a row.