No lead is safe at Coors Field, especially when seven of the nine pitchers the home team trots out had started the season in the minors.
Colorado did that Saturday night against the San Diego Padres in LoDo, and the offense provided just enough padding for a parade of inexperienced arms. The result was an 11-10 victory over San Diego that clinched the series in a pinball, watered-down example of September baseball with expanded rosters.
“The game we won tonight, we were on the other side of those a few times in the middle of the summer,” manager Bud Black said.