Rockies Management Promptly Thanks Taveras & De la Rosa Great Actions

The Dominican Willy Taveras and Mexican De la Rosa performances were just outstanding and certainly game the Colorado Rockies an unexpected push.

Taveras stole five bases, the best record in his career, the Mexican Jorge De la Rosa played his best MLB game while the Rockies cut a record of nine consecutive triumphs at home after defeating Chicago White Sox 2-0 on Saturday.

Despite some Rockies players not being able to bat the team managed to win. Taveras could just not score in spite of his five stole bases. The Dominican reached 29 cushions in 31 intents this season, the best number in the National League and only five less than his previous record from last season.

"It was a harsh game and I had a pair of opportunities and when I got them, I went for the bases", said Taveras. "I always get a good chance when I am me in the run position ".

De la Rosa disregarded eight batters and allowed a strike and a run in five innings. Jason Grilli (2-0) worked an inning and two thirds to manage the victory, while Brian Fuentes played the ninth inning without permitting annotation for his tenth catched in 13 opportunities.

"I believe we obtain more than what we could expect. From start to end it was a great game. We saw a path in the fast ball, we saw curves in the first launches, we saw good sliders and timely velocity changes for punches", said Hurdle about De la Rosa.

De la Rosa, who arrived at the game with average clean runs of 9.0 in this season, only permitted a simple from Brian Anderson. It carried out 79 launches and improved from 8.13 to 6.89 his average.

Jeff Baker received the White Sox Octavio Dotel (3-4) with a double to begin the seventh inning. Baker moved to the third base with a little help of the Venezuelan Yorvit Torrealba. After Omar Quintanilla batted a hit to arrive at first base, Taveras continued with another strong hit and also arrived to first base, but in this occasion Konerko could not stop it and Baker scored. This was Konerko’s fifth error of the season.

In the meantime, in Seattle the Venezuelan receiver Jesus Flores also had a good evening. He hit a home run that broke the tie in the seventh inning to carry the Washington Nationals to victory 5-2 against the Mariners.

Additionally, Flores managed three runs and added his fourth homerun, connected with two outs the hit that defined the rout of the Dominican Miguel Batista (3-8).

Tyler Clippard was sent to the minor leagues on Tuesday and then called again in order to open Saturday. He played more than six innings, permitted seven hits and two runs. Jon Rauch punched out his three rivals in the ninth inning for his 15th catched in 18 intents.

The Puerto Rican José Vidro and the Dominican Adrián Beltré hit great home runs for the Mariners.

Lastly, Paul LoDuca will soon leave the list of injured next Monday and will be able to have a place as regular receiver, although Manny Acta has not confirmed it. "He is doing it well in the defensive and in the offensive. As for Paul, he will have his playtime. He will have his regular participations. There will be shifts to bat for everyone,” added Acta.

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