DENVER -- The Rockies proved both ends of an old baseball adage over the weekend. In a three-game set with the Padres, they blistered baseball to the tune of 27 hits and 17 runs in the first two games, then shut down and found only four hits on a lazy Sunday, when their offensive output in the 10-4 loss was far more lethargic than their run tally would indicate.
"Hitting is timing," Hall-of-Famer Warren Spahn said. "Pitching is upsetting timing."
San Diego's James Shields disrupted every vestige of timing lingering from the Rockies' first two games, lulling Colorado's lumber to sleep and staving off the sweep.