Signs of Life?

The beautiful thing about baseball is that you can look so bad one day and so good the next.  After a horrendous home stand in which the Rockies went 1-8 and giving up 76 runs and scoring 42, they promptly go on the road and score 12 runs in the first 4 games and win 3 of the 4 two by shutout.

Is the pitching experiment starting to show results?  I think it's still too early to tell, but it's great not to be behind by 5 runs early for a few games.

Just under 1/3 of the season to go, and the Rockies will  need to win half their games to have their worst ever  record.  In 1993 and 2005 the Rockies had identical 67-95 records.  The 2012 version of the Rockies are on pace with the 2005 Rockies at 41-69 and are 5 games ahead of the pace in 1993.

One statistic that will need to change is the Saturday/Sunday record currently at 6-30.  With 16 Saturday and Sunday games left they will need to pick it up quite a bit to avoid having the worst Rockies record ever. combined with Tuesday (4-10) the Rockies are 10-40 on those 3 days and are 31-29 on the other 4 days.

The Rockies have only 2 more off days between now and the end of the Season, both are Thursdays August 30, and September 13.  The Rockies will only play 13 Thursday games all season.

Another scheduling oddity.  The Rockies played the Giants only 5 times in the first 103 games of the season, leaving them 13 games in the final 59, 22% of the games from that point.  (Currently they have 13 games left.) Combined with 9 against LA (3 earlier this week) and 7 against Arizona, the Rockies could still have a big say in who wins the West.

The Rockies remaining schedule has them playing a lot of also-rans in the final weeks.  Other than the 3 NL West opponents they have Milwaukee (51-60), Miami (51-62), Mets (54-59), Philadelphia (51-61), San Diego (50-64) and Cubs (54-67).   This accounts for half of the final 52 games.  That leaves the 22 NL West games and a 4 game set in Atlanta, as the only games against winning teams.