DENVER -- For a starter who makes his living on his curveball, Adam Wainwright is seemingly unfazed pitching in the thin air at Coors Field. The veteran right-hander quieted a sellout crowd of 48,106 with his best outing of the year, throwing seven scoreless innings and scattering just three singles in the Cardinals' 3-0 win over the Rockies on Saturday.
Wainwright is now 10-1 with a 1.56 ERA against the Rockies, and has given up just one run over his last three outings, a span of 20 1/3 innings. Wainwright cast a wide velocity spectrum, creating nearly a 20 mph gap between his low-90s fastball and the off-the-table curve, which was put in play just three times.