The Rockies and Padres square off tonight in a game that will probably include stories large and small.
Twenty nine year-old lefty Yohan Flande starts for the Rockies tonight. Some stories might revolve around him—they also might not. It will be Flande's tenth start of the season for the Rockies. That's something. He has a 4.95 ERA and a 5.82 FIP. Presumably, ERA estimators say that he's a little bit better or a little worse than his ERA. They also say that the difference is negligible for a 29 year-old lefty with 122 big league innings.