Total Collapse by the Padres???

In my last post,I put a caveat in "barring a total collapse by the Padres". Scratch that now. The total collapse of the Padres over the last two weeks, has allowed the Giants to get within 1 of the NL West Lead, and the Rockies have gotten to within 4.5 games with 4 weeks to go. The Padres have only one off day the rest of the year (Sept 20). The amazing thing about their 10 game losing streak is that 7 of the 10 have been at home. The 2nd most amazing thing about the losing streak is that 4 of the losses have been to last place Arizona.

The Rockies have another big week ahead of them. Although at home they have to play 4 against the Central Leaders Reds, before playing 3 against Arizona, while the Padres and Giants are trading blows for first place in 4 games this weekend. Before that the Padres play the Dodgers, while the Giants play 3 in Arizona early in the week.

The Rockies still have a long way to go, but they can't afford any more 3 game skids like they did last week in San Fran and the make-up game with the Phils. Granted they picked off the first game by the bay, but had they pulled out one of the other two, and avoided the disastrous 7th inning against the Phillies, they'd only be 2.5 games out of first and in much better shape.

If anything the stop in Denver helped them pick up their bats for San Diego.

It's not over yet, folks, but the run needs to happen now.