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Estevez relishes facing baseball’s best bats
- Updated: May 29, 2016
DENVER — Because the Rockies trust him to protect late leads, rookie right-handed relief pitcher Carlos Estevez lives on the highlight reel.
On Saturday, the highlight belonged to the Giants’ Buster Posey, who turned a one-run lead into a deficit with a three-run homer off Estevez in the Rockies’ 10-5 loss. But Estevez won the previous two confrontations with Posey and has more than held his own against the game’s toughest hitters in the biggest situations.
Estevez (1-2, 5.28 ERA) entered Sunday having held opponents to a .211 batting average with 15 strikeouts in 15 1/3 innings and no inherited runners scoring. The identities of those he has faced bring a smile to his face.
“Oh, David Ortiz — that was nice,” said Estevez, a Dominican Republic native who had five family members with him on the field before Sunday’s game with the Giants. “I went fastball up and in, fly ball to third.
“Yasiel Puig, I struck him out. I faced [Paul] Goldschmidt and he’s 1-for-2, double down the line and a broken-bat fly ball to second. Andrew McCutchen, fly ball to left; Starling Marte, ground …
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