Lineup Card: 6-29-11 Rockies vs White Sox

If you're looking for Rockies game lineups and you don't feel like searching all over Twitter or waiting for MLB.com to post them, check back to Heaven & Helton about 30-60 minutes before first pitch. They should be here waiting for you.

Links

• Yesterday's recap: Pitching holds strong, Tulo steals the W
• Blake Street Bulletin: Fight mediocrity
• Rockies Review: The Un-Ty-Er

Lineups

Colorado Rockies (39-40)

1. CF Carlos Gonzalez
2. 2B Jonathan Herrera
3. 1B Jason Giambi
4. SS Troy Tulowitzki
5. 3B Ty Wigginton
6. RF Seth Smith
7. LF Ryan Spilborghs
8. C  Chris Iannetta
9. P   Ubaldo Jimenez

Sound the alarms: Seth Smith is starting against a left-hander! Please let him have a good night!

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Rock Solid Recap: Pitching holds strong, Tulo steals the W

This is what happens when you put an underachieving team (Rockies) and mediocre team (White Sox) together for a baseball game. A long game full of fans from both sides wondering how their teams is going to blow it, why the other team refuses to win it, and why they're staying up into the late evening hours to witness it.

Rockies fans are glad they did, because it was shown there is one big difference between these teams, and, quite frankly, the two leagues.

The Colorado Rockies have a superstar by the name of Troy Tulowitzki. A superstar who's athletically gifted and can change a game any number of different ways, including with his legs. The Chicago White Sox have no such player. In fact, most American League teams don't.

Watch Troy Tulowitzki steal the baseball game

Now listen to Hawk Harrelson's non-call

And the Jim Tracy drinking game

Rockies 3, White Sox 2 in 13 (boxscore)

That game could have gone on for 20 innings without a resolution if not for Tulowitzki's instincts and hustle, but let's make no mistake about where this game was truly won for the Rockies...

Pitching. Pitching. Pitching.

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Lineup Card: 6-28-11 Rockies vs White Sox

If you're looking for Rockies game lineups and you don't feel like searching all over Twitter or waiting for MLB.com to post them, check back to Heaven & Helton about 30-60 minutes before first pitch. They should be here waiting for you.

Links

• Yesterday's recrap: No sweep for us... part 3
• Hot Rox: Jim Tracy is having a very bad season
• Blake Street Bulletin: The Cautionary Tale of Felipe Paulino
• Rockies Woman: The Machine Malfunctions
• Purple Row: Know Your Foe: Chicago White Sox

Lineups

Colorado Rockies (38-40)

1. CF Carlos Gonzalez
2. 2B Chris Nelson
3. 1B Todd Helton
4. SS Troy Tulowitzki
5. RF Seth Smith
6. 3B Ty Wigginton
7. LF Charlie Blackmon
8. C   Chris Iannetta
9. P   Jason Hammel

Standard lineup. Not much to overanalyze.

Chicago White Sox (38-41)

1. LF Juan Pierre
2. 3B Brent Morel
3. RF Carlos Quentin
4. 1B Paul Konerko
5. SS Alexei Ramirez
6. C  A.J. Pierzynski
7. CF Alex Rios
8. 2B Gordon Beckham
9. P   Gavin Floyd

For Jason Hammel to have success tonight he needs to keep Pierre and Moral off base ahead of Quentin and Konerko. You can have those guys at the dish with a chance to do damage or change the game.

Rock Solid Recrap: No sweep for us... part three

Yes, this afternoon's game was the Rockies third attempt at a sweep in the last eight days (although this one was continued from April). For the third time, they couldn't finish the job.

Cubs 7, Rockies 3 (boxscore)

Jhoulys Chacin: He had nothing today. Zero. And that includes confidence and energy. Every pitch looked like a struggle and the body language after several of them suggested he didn't know what pitch he could turn to to help him get an out.

That makes for a very mentally and physically challenging game, especially for a youngster used to being on his game. He's found a way to get through similar outings in the past with good results, but there hasn't been one like this where absolutely nothing worked. So while it goes down as a lousy performance, there's certainly no reason to get worked up about it unless he can't rebound effectively on Saturday.

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Lineup Card: 6-27-11 Rockies @ Cubs

If you're looking for Rockies game lineups and you don't feel like searching all over Twitter or waiting for MLB.com to post them, check back to Heaven & Helton about 30-60 minutes before first pitch. They should be here waiting for you.

Links

• Yesterday's recrap: Rockies run out of steam in Bronx finale
• Purple Row: Sky Sox hit 5 bombs, Ian Stewart has 2 of them
• Rockies Woman: Rookie Rubber Match (She was there)

Lineups

Colorado Rockies (38-39)

1. CF Carlos Gonzalez
2. 2B Jonathan Herrera
3. 1B Todd Helton
4. SS Troy Tulowitzki
5. RF Seth Smith
6. 3B Ty Wigginton
7. LF Charlie Blackmon
8. C   Chris Ianetta
9. P    Jhoulys Chacin

Couple things...

1. I thought Todd Helton might sit today with yesterday's from New York to Chicago and another flight later today from Chicago to Denver. Perhaps tomorrow night will be the night he sits.

2. If this were basketball, we might be wondering if Chris Nelson is out of the rotation. I almost wonder though if Jim Tracy can finally use that home/road platoon that was rumored with Jonathan Herrera and Jose Lopez and use it with Nelson now. We shall see. 

Chicago Cubs (31-46)

1. RF Kosuke Fukudome
2. CF Tony Campana
3. SS Starlin Castro
4. 3B Aramis Ramirez
5. 1B Carlos Pena
6. LF Alfonso Soriano
7. 2B Blake Dewitt
8. C   Geovany Soto
9. P   Matt Garza

The Cubs starter in "rained out" game in April was supposed to be Casey Coleman. So they upgrade to Garza here. Unfortunately for them, they couldn't avoid Chacin. He's going for Colorado like he scheduled to do that day as well.