September is a great time of the year. It is MLB Playoff -Racetijd. The Dodgers only have a 2.5-game lead over the Padres in the NL West. The Blue Jays try to ward off the Yankees to keep their grip on the East. The third Al Wild Card spot seems to be a narrow race between the Mariners and Rangers with the Royals and Rays on the Fringe.
The Giants, thanks to a home run that hits a series of epic proportions and a sweep from the Rockies, have started climbing in the NL Wild Card Race. It is a good time of the season where competitions really start to count!
Unless you are a fan of Colorado Rockies. Here we are in the seventh consecutive season of competitions that are not in June, let alone September.
With 21 games left, the Rockies have the distinguished honor to be the first MLB team that will be 100 losses in 2025. Most likely the White Sox will be the only other team that will not erase that low bar this season. Three more losses will guarantee the worst season in the history of the organization. Three more victories will help the Rockies avoid being the worst team in the modern era of MLB.
Those are the types of varieties that are not so nice to see. Without playoff to look forward to, it is difficult to stay invested occasionally in the end of the season.
So I thought I would try something I hadn’t done at a Rockies game. I decided to go on Tuesday evening and keep a score – old school style with a score card and pencil. So far I had only gone to two games this season, and although I am angry with Rockies’s front office because I have not had a better team, I still love them. I will still be sad when the season is over. So I decided to do it and have a mission to make it more fun.
I thought it would be a good way to stay involved and make things interesting. Moreover, I would see Logan Webb against Kyle Freeland. Or so I thought (more about this later).
Baseball is the only sport where keeping a score is a serious fan activity. With every MLB game you can bet that there are at least a handful of fans with a score card and pencil, possibly listening to the game on the radio sitting next to the stands. It is one of the weird peculiarities of baseball. Like a proud nerd, it is one of the things that I like about the game.
My mother always held the score at baseball games as a job when she was younger and she taught me how to do it. That came in handy when I worked as a sports reporter for small newspapers in Colorado and California. I usually treated baseball games in high school where there was no communication team that held score and generated statistics. I had to keep the score and do it accurately to have statistics in my articles.
It seemed that this would be a good chance to find a score card (I found one in my 2024 Colorado Rockies Media Guide), sharpening pencils and watching a game.
Here are the five lessons I have learned:
Keeping the score was fun. It kept me involved. I talked about the game (usually try to find out what happened to the fight) with my section hours. I had a great time. If you have not held before, you have to try it. It is low commitment and it is nice to be part of the traditions of the game. If you need a guide, former Purple Row writer Andrew Martin posted this guide in 2009. If you did it, but it is a while ago, I recommend trying again.
Just when I got my setup and felt good about my ability to restore the art of scoring a game, the dugouts were released in a huge fight. The next thing I knew were shifted to three players. First of all, I learned that I don’t know how to score that, except that I only have to draw a line through their names. Fortunately, I did this because I was angry with Freeland, who should be used to giving up gay and not really has a room to feel, are cast out and money paid fans on a Bullpen match against the Giants. I was afraid that I would not stand up for pitchers, but luckily Antonio Senzatela made it 4 2/3 innings. Now I have a system for droppings.
If you make things again, do things, accidentally count markings in the wrong inning, to falsify/disputed and more, I have made many mistakes. I was really happy that I had a good eraser. I am also sure that I had not done it all correctly, but I thought it looked a bit like making notes. It was just for me, so as long as it makes sense to me, that’s all that counts.
This exercise taught me that my attention span was shot. It has always been difficult to record every pitch of a game, especially if you know that you can find all the information you could find on your phone, but I have to admit that it was a constant struggle to remain engaged. I can blame the Rockies that are not competitive, but it is also a symptom of our bombed environments that have been shortened by the ability of Brain to concentrate for a long time. Because of this I want to keep the score more often to sharpen this skill.
5. Save the score at a bark at the Park Game
When the Rockies lose and compete for the worst team-in-Schittering praise, it was a nice bonus with cute dogs on the big screen and on the competitions. I appreciate the dogs that are in the neighborhood to sit with 18,934 people (now that I think about it, I wonder if this attendance number has taken the dogs) and does not panic. The best part of the night was definitely the Simba -Cam when people lifted their hairy friends, big and small, in the air as Rafiki on Pride Rock. I can also blame some dogs for a few balls and strikes, but it was a very welcome distraction.
If someone keeps the score, share why you do it and what you like below. If you have not done that, certainly give it!
Triple-A: Albuquerque Isotopen 10, Round Rock Express 6
Keston Hiura, Zac Veen and Aaron Schunk all picked up Solo Homers, Adael Amador recorded three hits, including a double, and drove in three points and Hiura and Schunk also both had three-hit nights.
Halfway through the fifth inning, Round Rock 6-4 had risen before the isotopes gathered to take a 7-6 lead in the seventh and three insurance runs in the eighth. Everyone on the isotoop schedule registered at least one hit on their way to a total of 17.
Double-A: Hartford Yard Goats 4, Reading Fightin Phils 1
Michael Prosecky recorded six strikeouts in four scoreless innings, despite giving up four hits and running four more, Victor Juarez added three solid innings, and only stood up one point on three hits with one strikeout for the hold and Austin Smith threw a perfect ninth for Hartford. Juan Guerrero and Charlie Condon every RBI Singles, and the yard goats scored another point on an error and another on a wild throw for the victory on Thursday.
Guerrero recorded three hits on the night, Dyan Jorge added two hits and ROC Riggio doubled and scored a point.
High-A: Eugene Emeralds 3, Spokane Indians 0
The Smaragden held Spokane for two hits – Singles from Ethan Hedges and Skyler Messinger – for a shutout -winning Thursday. Josh Grosz gave up two points in the first inning, but bounced back with five scoreless frames for a quality start with seven hits, three free runs and three strikeouts.
Low-A: Fresno Grizzlies 7, Rancho Cucamonga Quakes 1
Wilder Dalis hit a two-run Homer, Alan Espinal hit a two-run single and a few RBI doubles to help the Grizzlies add a new victory to their playoff-bound record on Thursday. Royneir Hernandez placed two hits, including a two -squeeze, and scored two points and Ethan Holliday ran twice and scored a point. Jackson Cox earned his fourth victory of the season after throwing six solid innings and stood up one point on two hits and two free walks with six strikeouts. Ismael Luciano earned a three-after rescue, his first of the season, after he had kept the Quakes scoreless with two hits and five strikeouts.
Rockies -Fan changes frustration into fashion with ‘Purple Purgatory’ -brand | 9news.com
Colorado Rockies -fan Danny Deprez has started with his own online clothing brand that symbolizes the status of Rockies for the last three seasons, or even more: Purple Purgatory. It’s pretty brilliant and the equipment is funny. Shirts say: “Purple Purgatory, Colorado Baseball lowered the expectations”, “height -adapted expectations” and “Warning: thin sky and thin bullpen.” Purplepurgatory.com Is definitely worth a visit.
MLB 2025: All ways in which the Colorado Rockies Games have lost ESPN.COM
David Schoenfield delves into different rockies during the season. In their 100 losses, Schoenfield breaks in this long stretch in 17 categories. I don’t have to go into this losing memory strip, but it is an interesting concept.
1 player from each team with a lot to prove the piece | Mlb.com
I think there can be many rockies in this category in terms of the future. Thomas Harding chose Antonio Senzatela. Senzatela has moved to the Bullpen, but still signed for $ 12, must end strong to improve his status on the team.
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