Jason Grilli suffers injury in Braves loss to Rockies

The ball landed about where Gonzalez went deep Friday night and was his third home run in six games. 340 in that span after collecting three hits in the series opener.

Because of weather delays and injuries, Laffey was part of a patchwork Rockies pitching gauntlet on Friday night against the Atlanta Braves.

Brothers spent much of the previous four seasons with the Rockies. In 34 games with the Rockies, Oberg is 2-1 with a 5.97 ERA…. And, we kind of had a hint Morneau might be in bigger injury trouble than what was first thought back in May, as we’ve hypothesized the impact it had on his trade value. That’s not too far behind the absurdly disparate Julio Teheran home/road splits on the list of things you could never predict. Lester’s winless streak reached 10 starts. Nearly. Charlie Blackmon is 14 for 31 in his last seven after going 3 for 4 with a triple. Bettis is 0-1 with a 12.00 ERA and one strikeout in his career against the Braves.

Matt Wisler settled down to pitch six solid innings after being jolted in the first by Gonzalez’s two-out, two run homer that soared into the stand of evergreens beyond the center field wall. Braves LHP Josh Outman (thoracic outlet syndrome) began a rehab assignment with the rookie-level Gulf Coast League Braves and pitched one scoreless inning….

Miller has been stellar on the road this season, posting a 2.18 ERA and. The Braves came back to tie the score with home runs from Juan Uribe in the second inning and Ryan Lavarnway in the third. “It’s not even close”, Miller said. John Axford, the last of the Rockies’ six pitchers, got three outs for his 16th save in 17 chances. If Atlanta has both of its eyes on the future and just one on the present, wouldn’t it make sense to see if a young power arm already in the organization can become the next great Atlanta Braves closer? Stubbs later scored the game-winning run on Carlos Gonzalez’s walkoff single.

Misfortune hit the Braves at the outset of the Rockies’ late rally. “That field was nearly getting unplayable and they got the game in”. Of the 11 games he started in that stretch, Johnson had four 3-hit games and five 2-hit games. His home-run park, in case anyone forgot, is Chicago’s Wrigley Field, where the ex- Astro has seven homers in 90 at-bats (24 games). Seeing his first action in the majors since 2013, Laffey threw 2.1 innings to earn the victory as Colorado captured its second straight 5-3 victory against the Braves before a sellout crowd of 48,254 at Coors Field.