Like a curse from the baseball gods, just as the Rockies inched toward solving how to consistently pitch well at Coors Field last season, they lost their way on the road.
That left the Rockies pondering a familiar question heading into the offseason: How could they master the differences in pitch action at 5,280 feet elevation versus sea level, so that they could be effective no matter where they threw?
“We knew we had to make a switch,” right-hander German Marquez said. “We couldn’t just keep seeing the (contrast in collective road/home performance) and not do anything about it.