ARIZONA BULLPEN MELTSDOWN IN COLORADO
Pitching staffs have a tendency to blow up in the thin-air of Coors Field. This time, it can't be blamed on the altitutde. The Colorado Rockies scored four runs in the seventh inning on one hit.

Colorado was trailing Arizona 4-3, heading into the bottom of the seventh. Aaron Miles hit a leadoff single off of DBacks reliever Mike Koplove. Koplove then walked back-to-back hitters to load the bases. Jeromy Burnitz walked to force in a run. With the score 4-4 and the bases loaded with nobody out, enter Jose Valverde.

The first pitch from Valverde found its way into the back of Charles Johnson, forcing in a run (5-4 Rockies). His second pitch went to the backstop (6-4 Rockies). After throwing the ball in the general vicinity of the plate for a few pitches, Valverde uncorked his third wild pitch of the inning, scoring Burnitz and making it 7-4 Colorado.

Interesting enough, Koplove had four runs charged to him while Valverde didn't have a run score that was charged to him. Koplove went 1/3 IP, 4 ER, 1 H, 3 BB, and threw seven of twenty-two pitches for strikes. Valverde ended up going 1 2/3 IP, allowing 3 BB and no runs.