For a team 35 games below .500, the Colorado Rockies have shown plenty of fight as their season nears its end. Colorado has won three straight games in its final at-bat, including the first two of its three-game series against the visiting Chicago Cubs.
After Saturday's comeback win in extra innings, the Rockies (57-92) go for a sweep against a stumbling Chicago squad in Sunday's finale in Denver. "It doesn't surprise me -- just how hard we're playing and the focus," Colorado manager Bud Black said following the Rockies' 6-5 win in 10 innings on Saturday. " .
.. I'm never taken aback by anything other than complete focus and preparation and work before the game, and then how we play.
That's what our guys do. The players amongst themselves set a standard." The Rockies' run of last-at-bat victories started Thursday with a two-run ninth inning that propelled Colorado to a 4-2 road win over the Detroit Tigers.
The next night, the Rockies lost a 5-2 lead to the Cubs in the eighth inning before Hunter Goodman delivered a tiebreaking grand slam in the bottom of the frame to lift Colorado to a 9-5 victory. Saturday's rally was perhaps the most dramatic. The Rockies trailed 5-3 entering the bottom of the ninth and were down to their last strike before Goodman drew a full-count walk.
Sam Hilliard followed with a pinch-hit two-run homer to tie it, and Brenton Doyle won it for Colorado an inning later with a walk-off RBI single. "These young guys are learning what it's like to win at the .