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Game #160: Hirsh vs Haren
purplerow.com - 9/27/2008
Game #160: Hirsh vs Haren
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Jason Hirsh has spent a long season on a journey of rediscovery, almost entirely in Colorado Springs, and will therefore be making his first 2008 start for the Rockies tonight. Greg reynolds showed five nights ago that he still isn't ready to step to the MLB plate, far from it, let's hope Hirsh ...

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AZ Snakepit:  Diamondbacks 6, Rockies 4: If at first you don't succeed... come back in the later innings.

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Diamondbacks 6, Rockies 4: If at first you don't succeed... come back in the later innings.
AZ Snakepit — ... A few thoughts on Haren, while I'm here. I can't agree with the Purple Row assertion that, "clearly Arizona had more in mind when it traded for him last winter." I beg to differ. Even though Haren was very unlucky - he had a 2.79 ERA in his nine no-decisions - his presence means that only one other NL team bar Arizona has two pitchers with 16+ wins [the Cubs, thanks to Dempster and Lilly]. His ERA+ of 137 is exactly the same as it was last season, and he set a career-high in strikeouts while posting a K:BB ratio of better than 5:1, the highest by any NL ...

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