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Rockies' Rotation Takes Stride Forward

SAN FRANCISCO (The Sports Xchange) - The San Francisco Giants assembled a starting staff this season that they are paying a whopping $72.4 million.

Yet a Rockies foursome that will earn a cumulative $1.98 million in 2016 was the more impressive group in the four-game series that ended Sunday in a 2-2 split.

The Rockies gave up just 15 runs in the four games, four of which came Thursday after Colorado built a 17-3 lead in the opener of the series, with two more coming in extra innings Saturday after the Giants were shut out for the first nine frames.

And here is the best part for Colorado: The Giants didn't even see the Rockies' best starter, Tyler Chatwood, who will open the Arizona Diamondbacks series on Monday night, and two other proven veterans (Jorge De La Rosa and Jordan Lyles) who are hurt.

Chatwood has shut out his last two opponents, which is exactly what right-handers Jon Gray and Eddie Butler did to the Giants over the weekend.

Neither allowed a run, Gray over seven innings (89 pitches) on Saturday, and Butler for six innings (92 pitches) on Sunday.

Despite the solid work over the weekend, the Rockies' starters own a 5.14 ERA, which ranks 28th among the 30 major league teams.

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