Game Recap #4 Oakland Athletics @ Colorado Rockies

As is the norm at Coors Field, it was tough to keep a baseball inside the fences. Oakland Athletics starter Bartolo Colon found this out the hard way. With a full count, Colorado Rockies lead off hitter Tyler Colvin put the first of six home runs during the game into the seats in left-center field. Things did not get better for Colon after this, as he surrendered three more runs in the inning, sparked by a Marco Scutaro triple immediately after the Colvin homer. This set up Michael Cuddyer for an RBI single, and Chris Nelson and Wil Nieves did the same as Cuddyer and longtime Rockie favorite Todd Helton were able to score. Oakland did not back down, and finally broke through Guthrie in the third inning, putting some men on base before sweeping them all home. Jemile Weeks was hit by a pitch and Josh Reddick walked to get on base here, before Seth Smith, playing a former team, doubled both of them in, and then he came home on a Brandon Inge double. The Athletics surged ahead when recent call-up Brandon Moss hit a two-run home run into the third deck in right field, and Cliff Pennington backed it up with a solo shot a little bit closer to the field. Moss put his second home run of the game, a solo home run, into the right field seats to seal Guthrie's fate on the night. Colorado chipped back in the fifth inning with a solo home run by Helton, and this one also went to right. Both starters would exit the game before the sixth inning began, with Guthrie looking at seven runs, all earned, two walks, and eight hits on his part of the box score, while Colon got away with five runs, all earned, three walks, and nine hits. Oakland's bullpen of Sean Doolittle, Grant Balfour, and newly-anointed closer Ryan Cook were able to shut the Rockies down from this point on, with the latter getting the save. Colorado's bullpen got hit once in the seventh inning as Inge went yard with a solo shot off of Rex Brothers, which left the final at 8-5. Colon was able to get the win while Guthrie was not bailed out from the loss. Our trip has so far been quite unkind to home teams, as the visitors have now gone 4-0 when we attend the games.