Christian Friedrich News

With the Rockies reeling through May, it's become next to impossible that a playoff run is in the cards for later this season.

How on earth do the Rockies win when the match-up is Christian Friedrich vs. Johnny Cueto and lose when it's Jeremy Guthrie vs.

Taylor Thornton scored twice, including the game-winning goal with 16:19 remaining and second-seeded Northwestern advanced to another women's lacrosse national championship game with a 9-7 victory over No.

Given how well Johnny Cueto has pitched this season, I did not have high hopes for Colorado tonight.

Todd Helton homered and drove in three runs Friday night, leading the Colorado Rockies to a 6-3 victory that ended the Cincinnati Reds' longest winning streak of the season at six games.

Since the Reds are riding a 6-game win streak , I tried to come up with an antidote to our losing streak mascot : Maybe it needs to be a departure from babies, laundry hampers and bricks.

We went through this in the middle of April when we discussed the Miami Marlins ' very pitcher friendly schedule which would last about six weeks.

Adam Lind is still not good at baseball, and still in the minors. Honestly, I'm amazed enough people owned Lind for him to top the most cut list two weeks in a row.

The Colorado Rockies will try to make it two wins in a row for just the fourth time this season when they open the weekend series against the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park tonight at 5:10 MT .

Eastern Kentucky University senior right-hander Matt Fyffe was voted the Ohio Valley Conference Pitcher of the Year, head coach Jason Stein was voted the OVC Coach of the Year and five Colonels were named to All-OVC teams at the annual conference Awards Banquet held on the eve of the 2012 OVC Baseball Tournament on Tuesday night.

Denver Post sports writers Troy E. Renck and Patrick Saunders post the Rockies Mailbag on Tuesdays during the 2012 MLB season.

Okay, we're now one-quarter into the Major League Baseball season, and some of the things were didn't know much about going into the Colorado Rockies 20th year, we know about now.

On Saturday Colorado Rockies pitcher Christian Friedrich learned what so many pitchers before him already have - Coors Field can be oh so cruel.

Jason Vargas threw seven strong innings, Kyle Seager homered and drove in three runs, and the Seattle Mariners beat the free-falling Colorado Rockies 10-3 on Saturday.

I'll Have Another waited a little longer to catch Bodemeister in the stretch this time, and now that he's done it twice in a row it's time for a Triple Crown try in the Belmont Stakes in three weeks.

As we head into a weekend filled with interleague intrigue, there's some options for fantasy baseball owners in need of starting pitching help.

Jockey Mario Gutierrez, left, aboard, I'll Have Another, reacts after crossing the finish line in front of Bodemeister, right, ridden by Mike E. Smith, to win the 137th Preakness Stakes.

Colorado manager Jim Tracy said it would be "an education day" for Christian Friedrich in his Coors Field debut.

You might remember Christian Friedrich as one of the many players we could have selected back in the first round of the 2008 draft instead of Josh Fields, a college reliever with bad command who has never made any progress.

Kevin Millwood amazes me. The 37 year-old dominated his former team tonight, tossing a complete game two hit shutout, striking out 7 and walking 1. I'm not even mad, I'm impressed.