It hasn’t always been this easy for Scott Oberg, but the 28-year-old right-handed reliever is living a breakout season for the Rockies this year. On Tuesday night when the Rockies needed a closer, Bud Black made sure he saved Oberg for that moment.
Oberg lived up to it. The former pariah, the former up-and-down reliever who looked like another farm-arm burnout, became a playoff hero — something the Rockies don’t have many of in their short history.
Oberg faced four batters on Tuesday and he struck them all out. He used sliders for all four Ks but the way he used them was different; the sequencing he took to get there changed.