Do the baseball gods have a bone to pick with the Colorado Rockies?
When the Rockies finally begin to look good, it seems everything has gone bad. The soul-shaking news that pitcher Chad Bettis must put down the baseball to fight cancer has been followed by one bad break after another, whether it’s to the hand of first baseman Ian Desmond or the arm of catcher Tom Murphy.
“We’ve had a tough time with bones,” observed Rockies manager Bud Black, who isn’t a doctor but now dispenses more spoonfuls of sugar to help the medicine go down than nurse Greg Focker did in “Meet the Parents.