Jeff Baker News

We continue our series of Rockies player reviews with a wrapup of all the remaining offensive players.

Christian Colonel batted .308 at Triple-A this year after hitting .309 in Double-A in 2007.

Troy Tulowitzki's 2007 season had us all convinced that this guy was a natural, that he was going to start stringing together 30-homer, 100-RBI seasons sometime in the near future.

Taylor Buchholz posted a 2.17 ERA and gave up just 45 hits in 66 1/3 innings in 2008.

Veteran Shawn Estes makes his final start of the season for the Padres on Wednesday against the Dodgers.

Nomar Garciaparra no longer starts every day for the Dodgers, but he's still making an impact when he gets a chance.

Aaron Cook would like to finish this season winning games, but that's tough because the Rockies aren't doing that with much consistency.

Clint Barmes homered, doubled in two runs and singled twice, Garrett Atkins hit a three-run homer, and the Colorado Rockies routed the Giants 15-6 Wednesday night.

As the Rockies' season heads toward its end, the club faces the usual questions about the makeup of its starting rotation for the following year.

Around this time last September, the Arizona Diamondbacks were celebrating an NL West title in Colorado.

Drew's 2-run homer leads Diamondbacks past Rockies Eds: APNewsNow. Diamondbacks 5, Rockies 3. DENVER Stephen Drew hit a two-out, two-run homer in the top of the ninth and the Arizona Diamondbacks ended their ...

Troy Tulowitzki had never endured a losing baseball season - at any level - until this year.

Chris Iannetta hit his first career grand slam, Jeff Baker had a three-run homer and the Colorado Rockies beat the San Diego Padres 10-3 on Tuesday night.

Heading into 2008, the biggest question mark in the Rockies lineup was at second base.

Center fielder Dexter Fowler figures to end up with a keepsake tonight. That will be the Rockies lineup card, showing Fowler batting first in what will be his first major league start.

By Jack Etkin , Rocky Mountain News Originally published 03:33 p.m., September 10, 2008 Updated 03:53 p.m., September 10, 2008 Rockies report: Free-agent market opens up for Fuentes ATLANTA - Center fielder ...

DENVER : The Colorado Rockies have spent just two days over .500 all season, and here they are talking as if they have a chance at the playoffs.

Box W:B.Zito L:A.Cook HR: SFG- P.Sandoval , S.McClain COL- C.Barmes Colorado Bottom 9th - Jeff Baker grounded out second to first to end the game.

Rockies outfielder Ryan Spilborghs couldn't have picked a better day than Monday to return after missing 47 games with a strained left oblique.

OF Ryan Spilborghs came off the disabled list on Monday and was in the lineup. The Rockies also called up RHP Steven Register, the first two moves with the expansion of the active rosters to 40.