West-leading Colorado Rockies meet the San Francisco Giants on the middle day of a three-game series Saturday night.Right-hander German Marquez (12-9 Carlos Lee Jersey , 3.94 ERA), unbeaten in his last six starts, will seek to record his first career win at AT&T Park against a rival who has had more than his fair share of success in his career against the Rockies, left-hander Madison Bumgarner (5-6, 3.30).Colorado’s nine-game trip got off to a rocky start Friday night when Giants righty Chris Stratton threw his first career shutout, a two-hitter that delivered the Rockies a costly 2-0 defeat.Article continues below ...The loss snapped a two-game winning streak for the Rockies (81-66) and allowed the Los Angeles Dodgers (81-67) to move within a half-game of first place in the West.The Dodgers could get even by the time the Rockies take the field Saturday. Los Angeles plays a day game at St. Louis, where the Dodgers have won the first two contests of a four-game series.The Rockies and Dodgers meet three last times in Los Angeles starting on Monday. The Dodgers currently lead the season series 9-7.Marquez allowed two runs in 6 2/3 innings against the Giants on Sept. 4. He did not get a decision but Colorado won the game 6-2.He’s gone 3-0 with a 1.69 ERA in his last six starts, allowing just eight earned runs in 42 2/3 innings.That impressive form has never traveled to San Francisco, where the 23-year-old has gone 0-2 with an 8.79 ERA in three starts at AT&T Park. He’s 0-2 with a 6.86 ERA in four career starts against the Giants.Marquez has never faced Austin Slater, the offensive hero of Friday’s win. His two-run single in the second inning provided Stratton all the offensive support he would need.Brandon Belt has been the toughest out for Marquez, having recorded two singles, a double http://www.astrosfanproshop.com/authentic-justin-verlander-jersey , two triples and a walk in eight career head-to-heads.Bumgarner, meanwhile, will have to deal with the same lineup that rocked him in a 9-8 loss at Colorado last week. He gave up seven runs (six earned) in five innings in that game and allowed 12 runs (11 earned) and 12 hits over 11 innings in his last two starts.Both those outings, however, were on the road. The former World Series Most Valuable Player has been much tougher at home of late, not having allowed a run in 14 innings over his last two AT&T Park starts.Bumgarner is 12-8 with a 3.14 ERA in 29 career starts against the Rockies, and he is 0-1 with a 4.00 ERA in three starts against them this season.The 29-year-old was bombed for three homers — two by Trevor Story — in that 9-8 loss to Colorado. Story had been just 2-for-17 previously against Bumgarner, although one of those hits was a 2017 homer.Story, a candidate for National League MVP honors this season, went 0-for-2 with a walk in the series opener. He had collected two or more hits in four of his previous six road games.The third-year pro has totaled 10 RBIs in his first 24 games in San Francisco. JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Dexter Fowler is taking the best piece of hitting advice he has ever received and applying it to his entire spring training approach.“Have a short memory,” Fowler said.Fowler had a 2018 worth forgetting.A career .262 hitter with an on-base percentage of .360 Jose Altuve Jersey , Fowler hit only .180 with an on-base percentage below .300 while battling nagging injuries much of the year. A foul ball that broke his foot ended Fowler’s season in early August, limiting him to 90 games – his lowest single-season total since the year he broke into the big leagues.“You learn from it and move on,” Fowler said.Now 32, Fowler is entering the third season of a five-year, $82 million contract. An All-Star with Chicago in 2016 when he posted a .393 on-base percentage to help lead the Cubs to their first World Series title in more than a century, Fowler scored 186 runs during a two-year stint with Chicago prior to joining St. Louis.Cardinals manager Mike Shildt is seeing a rejuvenated, more upbeat Fowler compared to the player who struggled last season.“With Dexter, I want that million-dollar smile to be more consistent,” Shildt said. “I want him to appreciate and enjoy what he’s doing and get back to a place that he’s coming from, that he has a lot of records from, and that’s a place of success — not only individually but in team settings.”Jose Martinez, not Fowler http://www.astrosfanproshop.com/authentic-justin-verlander-jersey , will start in right field on Saturday when the Cardinals open preseason play against the Miami Marlins. Left fielder Marcel Ozuna, working his way back from offseason shoulder surgery, will be the designated hitter in the opener and isn’t expected to play the field for the first couple of weeks.Fowler will make his Grapefruit League debut on Sunday, and Shildt has already announced that Fowler will hit second in the lineup, between Matt Carpenter and Paul Goldschmidt.“From an on-base standpoint he’s one of the elite on-base guys in the league,” Carpenter said of Fowler. “Obviously he’s a great base runner. If you can put what I do and what he does in front of guys like Paul Goldshmidt and Marcel Ozuna it’s a recipe, potentially, for a ton of runs.”Carpenter has reached base at no less than a .374 clip in five of the past six seasons. Goldshmidt has driven in at least 110 runs three times during his career. Ozuna drove in 124 runs in 2017 with the Marlins.Unlike previous seasons, Fowler most frequently hit in the sixth or seventh spot last season.“I’m accustomed to being in the top of the lineup,” Fowler said. “I’ve always been a guy who’s tried to get on base.”
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