DENVER -- Joyous Rockies teammates carted right-handed pitcher Jon Gray to the shower and turned creative Friday night. Water, sports drinks, toothpaste … "There was Listerine in my eyes -- I don't know who decided to pour that on me," a happily stunned Gray said.
But all the cleansing substances couldn't whisk away the simple fact: sporting a fastball that touched 98 mph in the first and second innings and was 96 most of the night, and a slider that overmatched the Mets, Gray was downright filthy for seven innings while pitching the Rockies to a 5-2 victory over the Mets.