Rockies break routine, take infield practice

DENVER — Instead of taking batting practice before Friday night’s game against the Braves, Rockies manager Walt Weiss had the team work on defensive fundamentals.

With the team normally taking BP before games, there’s relatively little time to work on pickoff plays and pitcher defense. At the Major League level, it’s certainly a rare sight.

Taking infield can often been seen as a punishment, but that is not the case here. The Rockies have played excellent defense since the All-Star break, with one error in seven games.

“Sometimes it’s used [as punishment], and all of a sudden you change up the routine because you have a bad game,” Weiss said. “I try to get out in front of that, and we do this time to time, and it’s not punishment, it’s a refresher because we don’t get to do these …

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