Coors Field fans mustered a makeshift clap-clap-clap, TU-LO chant in the second inning for the shortstop who once held down the LoDo park as its reigning best ballplayer. Troy Tulowitzki, in his decade-long career playing at 20th and Blake, spearheaded a coming of age for a club not yet 25 years old. Todd Helton, Larry Walker, Troy Tulowitzki, they sit atop Colorado’s best-of list.
But Tulowitzk’s legacy — 11 months after a trade that ripped him out of Denver and sent him to another league in another country — began to fade Monday.
With one sweet swing from Carlos Gonzalez, a no-doubt home run deep into the right field mezzanine, the Rockies kicked up a comeback that ground down the visiting Toronto Blue Jays for a 9-5 Colorado victory in front of 36,419 sentimental fans.