Who would have thought the Atlanta Braves and Colorado Rockies would only score three combine runs in their game at Coors Field?  That was what exactly happened Monday night when the Rockies defeated the Braves 2-1.

The Braves jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Chipper Jones doubled and scored Yunel Escobar.  Other then that, the Braves really didn’t have any offense.

Blaine Boyer took the loss for the Braves, as he served up a two run homerun to Matt Holliday in the bottom of the 8th inning.  You can’t really fault the pBraves pitching staff for this loss though, they did a very good job of limiting the Rockies to only two runs.

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It was a bad night for the Atlanta Braves right from the start as Mike Hampton left the game without even throwing an official pitch.  Hampton sustained some sort of chest injury during warmups.  Instead of Hampton pitching, the Braves used seven different pitchers in the game.

Jeff Bennett took the starting place of Hampton and threw the ball for four innings giving up four hits and two earned runs.  Chris Resop ended up taking the loss for the Braves as he gave up the earned run in the 10th inning.

Matt Diaz and Corky Miller had an RBI each for the Braves.  The big bats for the Braves never showed up tonight and they could have really used them.

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