Mark Kiszla reports on Huston Street’s reaction to his second blown save in two games:
As the Rockies’ season was dying in the bottom of the ninth and hope deflated from the Coors Field crowd of 49,940, Street did something that might surprise you. He confronted his failure. He did it by watching his own personal horror movie of how it all unraveled during the Phillies’ last at-bat.
Street had walked from the dugout, down a lonely hall and up a flight of steps, then after pausing for several minutes at a chair in front of his locker, proceeded to the video room and watched pitch-by-pitch how he was beaten by a two-out walk to Chase Utley, a double hammered by Ryan Howard and Jayson Werth’s single.
Street gazed at the tape of a 4-2 Colorado lead slipping through his right hand. “That’s how I deal with it. I want to see it,” he said. “I don’t want to wonder: ‘Where was the pitch?’ I want to know exactly what happened . . . I guess it helps me move past it. But . . . it doesn’t feel good.”
Street wasn’t the only problem in the series for the Rockies. Barmes did nothing offensively, and Helton, Tulowitzki and Hawpe were less productive than one would hope. Street, however, made Brad Lidge look good as closer was supposed to be the weakness of the Phillies, not the Rockies.
Posted by David Pinto at 8:42 am | League Division Series, Pitchers | Permalink | 1 Comment
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October 13th, 2009 @ 9:28 am
Street, Papelbon, Nathan. A number of closers coughed up games in the LDSes.