Rockies simply can't hit on road..

[PorkChop]

Ranked 1st in majors in Runs, OBP, Batting Avg & Slugging Pct.

Runs scored last 4 games (road):

2
3
0
0

[carll]

yeah....bet phily today and colorado scores 10...my luck is so bad lately....

[PorkChop]

Yup. Saying this, Im betting Rockies +115 tonight and their TT 0 3.5

[carll]

Rockies !! 1.5...

[mikmik]

Yup hamels gets rocked

[pettifogger]

They need to hire a psychologist to pry this road crap out of their brains. The road drop off is too great to be explained on physical talent alone. They are not mentally tough. If they were they would be up the Giants' ass.

[Pauulzcappin]

"Juiced ball bullshit"

[CollegeOverUnder]

They need to hire a psychologist to pry this road crap out of their brains. The road drop off is too great to be explained on physical talent alone. They are not mentally tough. If they were they would be up the Giants' ass.

The Rockies are good they just arnt playoff caliber. They don't have the big game situational players like the giants do

[posey]

They need to hire a psychologist to pry this road crap out of their brains. The road drop off is too great to be explained on physical talent alone. They are not mentally tough. If they were they would be up the Giants' ass.

In general teams are worse on the road compared to home games.
Look at the opponents of COL at Coors Field to date: ARI (.396), CHS (.491), PHI (.458), SFG (.627) 2 times, NYM (.440), TEX (.510), SDP (.442). Only two of those teams have a positive record, one of those teams only is barely over .500, in fact the Rangers are 1 win over .500.
The Rockies simply got hot very early and a lot of players overachieved. Rockies AVG through March/April:
- Blackmon .374
- Tulowitzki .364
- Barnes .345
- Morneau .343
- Dickerson .333
- Rutledge .318
- Cuddyer .317
- Arenado .310
- LeMahieu .291
Now tell me: who of those 9 guys would you trust to keep on hitting like this? I wouldn't even trust Tulo to keep up a ridiculous AVG of .360+ in our times.
The Rockies offense STILL has the highest BABIP of all MLB offenses with .326. Their home-BABIP is at an absurd .369. This suggests that they had a ton of luck, you won't be able to keep up such a BABIP. They did achieve 7.4 runs at home in March/April and still average 6.1 runs at home in May. But looking at the last 6 home games the average is down to 4.0 runs per game. THIS number is MUCH more likely to continue throughout the season than the first few blowout numbers.
Compare those numbers to the last road numbers and you see that this team is simply coming down to earth and nothing else.
And to go even further: the Rockies have a BABIP of .285 in road games this season. This suggests that they were somehow a little bit unlucky.
But considerung that the average BABIP hovers around .300 to .310, you will see that a number of .285 is much closer to that than a number of .369.

Luck, more bad than good opponents, getting hot early, playing at Coors Field and a lot of overachievers were and still are the force behind the Rockies home/road split numbers. Easy as that.

By the way: The Rockies scored the 4th least runs of all MLB teams in 2013 on the road with 272 in 81 games, which is a lousy 3.36 runs per game. But on the other side, the Rockies led all home teams with 5.36 runs per game.

[Big Bear]

so just wait til they play at home and pound them.

[posey]

Don't know of one should pound them, but they generally do better at Coors Field. Nothing new:
- 2013: 45-36 at home, 29-52 on the road
- 2012: 35-46 at home, 29-52 on the road
- 2011: 38-43 at home, 35-46 on the road
- 2010: 52-29 at home, 31-50 on the road
So to put it in a nutshell, they always have sucked when playing on the road. But they only achieved a positive home record in 2 of the past 4 seasons, too. They simply aren't as good as they played through the first month of the season, but overall better at home.