Rocky Mountain High.

This will be an interesting one. The Rockies play very well at home and have not lost a homestand since May 25-31, 2009.

Jhoulys Chacin goes tonight for Colorado. He throws a low-nineties fastball, a slider, a curveball, and a change-up. He can have trouble with his control and probably walks too many batters. He's a decent pitcher, though. He will give up hits (not home runs, though) but he has plenty of strike outs.

Ubaldo Jimenez pitches on Wednesday night. Jimenez's fastball is in the upper nineties, with lots of movement. He also throws a slider, a curveball, and change-up. He's another groundball pitcher, who doesn't give up home runs. He's got excellent control and the highest number of runs that he's given up in a game this season was three to Toronto.

Jason Hammel is the scheduled starter for Colorado on Thursday. Hammel was drafted by Tampa Bay and they were primarily using him out of the bullpen. (He does have two starts against Boston, September 26, 2006 and July 27, 2007.) He throws a low-nineties fastball, a slider, a curveball, and a change up. He's got good control and doesn't walk too many. He's got pretty good strike out numbers and gets a fair number of ground balls.

Colorado is a pitching and defense team. Their starters are pretty good, their bullpen (which is about to add back Huston Street--which might be a good thing for them) is more than decent, and they have the speed to cover a lot of ground in that big outfield. Their hitting, on the other hand, is a little lacking. The loss of Tulowitzki to a broken wrist hurts them a lot. Former Royal, Miguel Olivo is having a good year, Seth Smith and Brad Hawpe can hit a little bit but that's about it.