DENVER — This is baseball’s graveyard for pitchers.<\/p>\n
Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies since 1995, has a history of chewing up and spitting out Hall of Famers and Cy Young winners.<\/p>\n
This house of horrors couldn’t wait to wrap its hands around the new rich kid on the block from Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Well, if Trevor Bauer’s Dodger debut Friday night at Coors was any indication, the National League West is in a whole heap of trouble.<\/p>\n
Don’t let the final box score from the Dodgers’ 11-6 victory, or Bauer’s final pitching line (6\u2153 innings, three hits, four runs and 10 strikeouts), fool you.<\/p>\n
He was better than that.<\/p>\n
Much, much better.<\/p>\n
Really, almost historically better.<\/p>\n
Bauer, the reigning National League Cy Young winner, resurrected memories of the historic Sept. 17, 1996 evening when Dodgers pitcher Hideo Nomo threw the only no-hitter in the history of Coors Field.<\/p>\n
For six brilliant innings, it sure looked like Bauer would pitch the second one, strutting off the mound inning after inning, glaring at a few of his strikeout victims, and looking as relaxed as if he was playing whiffle ball in his backyard.<\/p>\n
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