I went to Denver's Coors Field with my sister Susan and friend Mark, seen in the photograph on the left, yesterday afternoon to watch the final game of the series between the Chicago Cubs and Colorado Rockies. The Rockies took the first two games, and were hoping for a sweep of the series, but alas, it was not to be. They lost to the Cubs 9-3. Rockies starting pitcher Ryan Feltner set the Cubs down in order the first three innings, but in the 4th gave up two singles and a walk to load the bases and then a grand slam home run to Seiya Suzuki. Relief pitcher Blas Castano gave up a two-run homer to Alex Bregman in the 7th, and the damage was done.
The Cubs have been struggling a bit lately, going 3 and 7 over the past 10 games, and I suspect Cubs fans would not have been happy if they were swept by the team currently sporting the worst record in baseball. There were 35,128 in attendance at yesterday's game, and almost all of them were Cubs fans. Coor's Field is known as Wrigley Field West whenever the Cubs play the Rockies, to the great annoyance of the Rockies' manager Warren Schaeffer and Rockies players. But let's face it - well over half the population of Colorado are transplants, and many of them come from Chicago. What do you expect? At least they didn't play Steve Goodman's "Go, Cubs, Go" over the loudspeakers after the Cubs victory. Thank heaven for small favors. And yes, that is indeed the Cubs in the photograph on the right celebrating their win yesterday afternoon as they headed to the dugout and moved above .500 in the standings.
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