Article: Lowe once again brought down to earth by Rockies

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 ...

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