Rockies’ fans have made it a point this year on social media — and with many strongly worded emails to beat reporters’ inboxes — to suggest that perhaps the best course of action for Colorado’s struggling bullpen would be to pawn off its stragglers to another club.
That plan somewhat came to fruition in a form of sweet mile-high irony on Friday night, when the Rockies topped the Dodgers 5-4 on a two-run seventh-inning home run by Ryan McMahon off former Colorado reliever Zac Rosscup, claimed off outright waivers by Los Angeles on July 11.
Rosscup, who battled a blister problem for much of the season before finally finding footing with Triple-A Albuquerque shortly before being outrighted, came on for Kenny Maeda with one out in the sixth and the tying run on second base.