A recent article on ESPN.com detailing the best pitching performance for every Major League Baseball team has become a point of contention between me and several Colorado Rockies fans/friends in the Twitter DMs. The article states that, based on Game Score, Jon Gray‘s masterful 16-strikeout shutout of the San Diego Padres in 2016 (producing a Game Score of 95) was the best-pitched game in Colorado Rockies history.
On the surface, it’s hard to argue with that. After all, it was a magical evening at Coors Field in a September contest that didn’t really matter to either team … but the Gray Wolf was dealing that night in a game for the Rockies record books.