You have to love baseball in Colorado

Unless you are a pitcher.

Padres, Rockies score modern-era most 92 runs in 4-game set.”

Yesterday’s fourth game was 14-13, and that was not the highest scoring game of the series, which was the second game at 16-12!

“Colorado’s Charlie Blackmon became the first player since at least 1900 with 15 hits in a four-game series.” Blackmon came into the homestand batting .295 on June 8th and is now hitting .336. Blackmon’s lifetime batting average is .304, consisting of .350 at home and .260 on the road. This year he is hitting .450 at Coors with 13 homers, compared to .233 with two homers on the road.

Blackmon actually led the NL in batting average in 2017, by hitting .391 at Coors, .276 on the road. That shows you the magic of Coors Field, the power to turn a completely mediocre hitter into a batting champ. Blackmon’s lifetime OPS on the road is .737, and he stands at .626 this year. The NL’s OPS average this year is .747 for all players – including pitchers!

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  1. Interesting that the top 10 fastest pitches aren’t all thrown in that stadium. In track, records are disallowed that altitude for all races up to 400 meters because of the advantage the thin air provide.

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