Rockies Game Recap: 8/7

               The Colorado Rockies atrocious road trip continued tonight as they ran into a buzz saw in Matt Harvey as he led the Mets to a 5-0 victory. Harvey had a complete game shutout for the Mets, which was his first complete game of his career, but I guarantee it will not be his last. He dominated the Rockies offense all night long and allowed only four hits on the night. It looked like a miss-match all night long and the majority of the Rockies hitters did not have a chance to get anything going against the young right hander.  It was such a dominating performance for Harvey that the first time a Rockies player reached second base was with two outs in the ninth inning when Charlie Blackmon took second base on a fielder’s indifference. He finished the game with six strikeouts and no walks, and did so with 106 pitches on the night. Jhoulys Chacin took the loss for the Rockies and is now 10-6 on the year.

                Jhoulys Chacin pitched well for the Rockies tonight but was unable to get any run support so he was saddled with the loss. He went seven innings while allowing seven hits, two runs, one walk and five strikeouts. Manny Corpas struggled in his inning of work as he allowed two hits, three runs and walked two batters. He took the game from one swing away from a tie, to a laugher all in one inning of work. The Rockies were only able to muster up four singles on night and could not string anything together that even resembled the faint idea of a rally. The Rockies continue to be baffled on offense during this road trip and are not showing any signs of breaking out of it.

 To make matters worse the Rockies also placed Carlos Gonzalez on the disabled list prior to the game tonight and recalled Jeff Francis from AAA. It is time for the Rockies to begin the process of beginning to get a look at players that will possibly have a future with the team. They need to figure out who has a future with the club and who is expendable. The players who are expendable should see the majority of playing time towards the end of the year in order to boost interest in the players in the off season trade market.

The Rockies need to have a short term memory as they will be back in action tomorrow morning with first pitch scheduled for 10:10 AM Mountain time. Tyler Chatwood (7-4, 3.15 ERA)will be taking on Dillon Gee (7-8, 3.97 ERA) for the Mets. Luckily this will be the last road game on this road trip, and hopefully the Rockies will be able to forget about what just happened to them over the last week and a half.