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Article: Lowe once again brought down to earth by Rockies
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- April 19, 2007
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DENVER -- Three hours before Wednesday night's game, Derek Lowe
emerged from the clubhouse runway into the visitors' dugout at Coors
Field and joined a casual conversation that was already in progress.
A staff ace about to make his fourth start of the season, he sounded
more like a dental patient about to receive a root canal.
Lowe was about to face the Colorado Rockies -- a team whose lineup
is filled with low-ball hitters who tend to feast on sinkerballers
like himself. A team against which he has never had much success, at
least not in this park. A team whose middle of the order -- Todd
Helton, Matt Holliday and Brad Hawpe --- have posted ridiculous
career numbers against him.
A team that ...