Because there's always a chance they will jump up and bite you on the ass if you're not paying attention.
For about 7 innings on Tuesday night, the Rockies looked like a team that wasn't paying attention.
It looked like the team we saw far too often during the every month not named September.
The urgency appeared to be missing. The confidence we saw in LA Friday and Saturday was definitely missing. Plate discipline never made an appearance. That surely wasn't aided by an inconsistent strike zone, but that's also a hat tip to Joe Saunders for being around the plate all night.
The only thing that wasn't missing was bad Rockies base running. But that's only because they didn't have actual base runners very often.
So yeah... bad night at the yard. Bad night at the yard in Arizona. Bad results from all over the baseball world unless you're still holding on to Wild Card hopes. Bad Bad Bad.
I did like what I saw from Jorge De La Rosa though. He did his job. He kept a good offense down. He chewed up seven innings. He deserved a much better result in terms of the W, but overall everyone should be thrilled with his performance.
Generally when a pitcher only makes two mistakes in seven innings (like DLR tonight) things will work out, but that's not so much the case when the mistakes come on back-to-back hitters and your offense never shows up to support you.
And that really wraps up tonight's game. I could go in depth on specific ABs and openly ask why Dexter Fowler continues to put bad swings on pitcher's pitches in hitter's counts, but it's late and I don't want to throw another pen behind my desk. I'll just leave it alone and look ahead to...
Tomorrow
Ubaldo Jimenez vs Rodrigo Lopez
The term "must win" seems to be fitting in this spot.
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