Butler’s pink gear a nod to late grandmother

SAN FRANCISCO — It was easy for Rockies right-hander Eddie Butler to imagine his late grandmother, Shirley Siros, recording his pitch count. Maybe that’s exactly what she was doing from her special place — free of the pain of a battle with breast cancer, and away from the agony of the disease that took her life in January 2014, pulmonary fibrosis that her doctors believe the breast cancer wrought.

Resplendent in the pink accents that the Rockies and all MLB teams wore on Mother’s Day to promote breast cancer awareness, Butler struck out a career-high six in six scoreless innings to lead a 2-0 victory over the Giants on Sunday.

“She kept books of my pitch count, every time I threw a baseball,” Butler said. “She knew every pitch. She knew everything. She was the best stat-keeper ever in baseball. She was always there. We could talk about it if I did a good job, and if I didn’t she always had a feel for it. She knew when to bring it up.

“She road tripped everywhere. I think she missed three college games. Two of them were on my birthday where she was like, ‘Here, have time with your family. I see you enough.’ My family didn’t come out as much.”

Butler, 25, recalls his grandmother loved more games than just baseball.

“She lived about 10 minutes down the road from where I lived,” said Butler, who’s from Chesapeake, Va. …

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