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Because the last two games would have been canceled due to snow and cold. The Sky Sox postponed their last two games in Colorado Springs.
Before a sun-lit crowd on an unseasonably warm 78-degree afternoon, the world champions embarrassed the Rockies, 10-0, completing a sweep with shades of history.
It was their ninth consecutive victory against Colorado at AT&T Park and ninth consecutive overall, the longest current winning streak for any team against a division rival, according to Elias Sport Bureau.
Prior to Wednesday's series finale, manager Walt Weiss said he wasn't "looking for any moral victories. We need a W."
Instead, the Rockies got brass knuckles to the teeth as the Giants won their 16th consecutive game started by Barry Zito, last done by the franchise in 1936 with Carl Hubbell.
Read more: Jeff Francis shelled early as Giants sweep Rockies in San Francisco - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/rockies/ci_22997681/jeff-francis-giants-sweep-rockies-san-francisco#ixzz2Q74rQElH
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)AC on this afternoon!! Can't open the windows because of the stinkbugs. The cicadas (Brood II) should be here by early May!!
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)I didn't know you had cicadas. That's a Texas thing. I used to find their exoskeletons on trees.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)here in 2004. Hell, I had to carry my daughter from the car to house while they were out. Not this time!!
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)Kind of a soothing sound in the summer that helps you go to sleep at night.
We started to get them in Denver recently. I thought I was home!
locks
(2,012 posts)Sure, but if they'd been playing in 10 degrees and 10 in. snow the Rockies would have won. Just like the US defeated Costa Rica in the World Cup blizzard in Denver a few weeks ago.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)Just like Costa Rica, the Gnats would have folded.
Auggie
(31,169 posts)to play the first few weeks of the season in warmer climates or with franchises that play in enclosed stadiums.