ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Has a major-league team ever been eliminated from the playoffs before the home-opener?
Asking for a friend of the RocKKKKKKKKKKKKKKies, who struck out 14 times during a 4-0 loss to Tampa Bay.
Not to sink your boat buoyed with all the hopes of a fresh baseball season. But this trip to Florida, where the Rockies have dropped four straight, is beginning to take on the feel of that three-hour tour Gilligan sang about.
There was a very strange postgame vibe in the visitors’ clubhouse at Tropicana Field, which was full of million-dollar smiles and bro hugs anywhere within three feet of young pitcher German Marquez, who enjoyed a very good Tuesday, when he agreed to a contract extension worth a reported $43 million.