Hey Larry, Vinny, Dante, Ellis and Big Cat, meet C.J. Cron. Back in the day, he would have fit in quite nicely with the Blake Street Bombers. Simply put, the guy's a beast at the ballpark at 20th and Blake.
Cron hit two home runs and a single and drove in five runs Friday night in the Rockies’ 10-4 win over the Padres at Coors in front of 34,304 fans. Cron is hitting .355 at home and 12 of his 16 homers have been launched in LoDo.
The Rockies snapped their seven-game home losing streak. The Padres, batting the Dodgers for the National League West title, have lost eight consecutive games at Coors, their longest active streak of futility at one ballpark. On a hot, dry night when the ball was jumping — the teams combined for 22 hits and four homers — Colorado needed Cron’s firepower. It also needed a gutsy, seven-inning performance from Kyle Freeland.
Freeland, however, allowed just one baserunner in his final two innings. Since April 19, a span of 11 starts, he is 3-3 and he has a 3.68 ERA.