Where Has All The Offense Gone?

The Rockies are only 14 games into the season and have scored only 48 runs while giving up 55, which would generally equate to a losing record of 6-8 according to Baseball-Reference.com but actually have a 9-5 record.  To compare, in 2016 the Rockies had scored 66 runs but had given up 77 and had a 6-5 record after 11 games.  In 2015 they had a 7-4 record scoring 51 runs to 37 against.

The big difference is that the Rockies this year are winning the close games, going 8-1 in one and two run games.    The Giants meanwhile are 1-7 in One and two Run games which is why they are currently 5-9.

With the Rockies lineup, you know the bats will break out at some point, but for now the job by the starters and especially the bullpen has been lights out.  They are tied with Detroit for most Save Opportunies with 8 and have only blown 1.  

The Bullpen has worked 43 innings in 14 games which is just over 3 innings a game.   Their WHIP is 0.931.  The Trio of Adam Ottavino, Mike Dunn and Greg Holland have pitched 19 1/3 innings giving up 6 hits and 1 run.  Holland also has 7 Saves.

Even more encouraging is that in 10 of the 14 games the Pitching staff has held the opponent to 5 or fewer runs, and are 6-0 when leading after 6.  The only lead they lost late was in the 7th inning where Milwaukee tied up the game in the 7th off of Ottavino, but the Rockies came back to win it in the 9th.

Triumphs:  The Rockies won a 4 game series in San Francisco for the first time ever. 

Defeat:   Pitcher Jon Gray broke his foot on Thursday night and will be on the shelf for at least a month.  Rockies need to get Tyler Anderson's mechanics fixed quickly to fill the void.

Schedule Quirk 1:  The MLB schedule has each team play each team in its divison 19 times whcih means they play two teams 10 times at home and two teams 10 times on the road.  This usually results in a 4 game and 2-3 game series over the course of the season, and the other  two get three 3 game series.  For some reason this season is different.  The Rockies play the Giants and the Dodgers only 9 times on the road, but somehow they got a 4-3-2 schedule with both of them which is why the Rockies played 4 this weekend and only 2 in LA this week.

Schedule Quirk 2:  The Rockies have a total of 16 days off not including the All-Star Break which includes only 2 in April and 2 in May.   The two in April are both this week.  The next day off after is May 1st.

Schedule Quirk 3:  After the two game set in LA the Rockies play the next 17 of 23 at home with the road trip going to Phoenix and San Diego.  After that they play 31 out of 45 on the Road.