Main Event Tracker: Week 21 review In a week where we expected to make up ground and start our climb up the standings, the opposite happened and we slid backwards. The offense came up light for the first time in weeks and while there was some progress on the pitching side, it wasn’t enough. Still, we’re optimistic that we can make it happen over the final six weeks.
This week at the catcher position is was the younger Contreras brother doing all of the heavy lifting, as William clubbed a team-leading four home runs while scoring six times and driving in four. That’s more like it. Willson had a down week, hitting for a solid average but chipping in just one run and one RBI.
Paul Goldschmidt continues to be a problem at first base and had another down week. He homered and drove in two runs while hitting just .182.
Unfortunately, the first base – and corner infield – landscape have been very difficult this season so there just haven’t been viable replacement options available. It may not look like Xavier Edwards did a whole lot this week, but that’s just because he only played over the weekend for us. We sat him in the front half of the week as he was only lined up for two games – and he still managed to steal three bases in the front half to give him five total on the week.
Ezequiel Tovar continues to run hot and cold and had another cold week, which he has seemingly done a lot when he has been at Coors Field lately. Three runs scored and a poor average with not.