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Gray’s season-ending start goes awry in sixth
- Updated: September 30, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO — The purple athletic tape around Rockies rookie pitcher Jon Gray’s right ankle, which he wore long after Thursday’s game was done, was a reminder of a hurtful sixth inning in a 7-2 loss to the Giants.
The pain started early in the sixth, when leadoff man Brandon Crawford smashed a hard bouncer off Gray’s ankle. Gray compounded the problem with a throwing error that put Crawford at second.
The inning, which started with the score tied at 2, didn’t improve much. Four of the five balls the Giants put in play didn’t leave the infield. Nonetheless, Gray and the Rockies were left smarting after a three-run inning.
“A lot of things happened,” Gray said. “They [the Giants] did a really good job of playing small ball. They put the pressure on us and I didn’t respond that well.”
After Gray passed the tests of the Rockies’ athletic training …
