The wiseguys in Vegas and the so-called analytics experts around baseball have lately pegged the Rockies as a team with about a 50-50 shot of making the playoffs. Fangraphs, for example, gives them a 47-percent chance.
The Rockies aren’t paying a lick of attention. And when left-hander Kyle Freeland takes the mound, they feel like they can go toe-to-toe with anyone, including the Dodgers, who have won five consecutive National League West titles.
A night after losing to Los Angeles, the Rockies rebounded with a 4-2 victory Saturday before a sellout crowd of 47,867 fans at Coors Field, getting home runs from Chris Iannetta and Charlie Blackmon off right-hander Walker Buehler.