Denver Post: Tough-to-kill Rockies keeping hopes alive

Oh, geez, Arizona and LA… now look what you’ve done with your screwing around.  Now the Rockies think they’re in the hunt again.

In Vonage or Pac-Bell or AT&T Park - whatever they call the China Basin field these days - the Rockies refused to say goodbye, wiring together an exhaustive 7-2 victory Tuesday.

“This is fun. We aren’t out of it,” center fielder Willy Taveras said.
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The win moved the Rockies to within six games of the division-leading Diamondbacks.

To put that in perspective, they haven’t been five games back since April 21. And on this date last season, they trailed the Diamondbacks by 6 1/2 games. So forgive the Rockies if they believe those crumbs from the chocolate-chip cookies Todd Helton passed out Monday are magic dust.
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They faced adversity Tuesday without so much as a flinch, winning for the 13th time in their last 18 road games as Jason Grilli picked up his first career save