PHOENIX — At the height of a playoff chase last September, as the Rockies streaked into contention in the nick of time, Scott Oberg saw a nod in his direction he was not expecting.
Colorado manager Bud Black called on the right-hander in the highest of pressure situations, an eighth inning at Arizona that included Paul Goldschmidt and Jake Lamb with a two-run Rockies lead. This was nothing out of the ordinary for Oberg. What came next was. In the ninth, Black pushed Oberg back out from the dugout, sending him in to face J.D. Martinez and A.