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PHOENIX — This spring http://www.yankeesfanproshop.com/authentic-giancarlo-stanton-jersey , Colorado Rockies manager in anywhere.Words to live by.The Rockies won their franchise-record 42nd road game with a 6-2 comeback victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks in the first game of a three-game series on Friday, maintaining their status in the tight NL West and wild-card races while putting the Diamondbacks in an even more precarious position.Article continues below ...“My message to the team, as far back as spring training, is we’re a good team no matter where we play,” said Black, who led his team to an NL wild-card berth in his first season with the Rockies in 2007.“On the road. In the cold. In the heat. In the rain. In the wind. It doesn’t matter. We can win. And we should win if we play our game, if we play the way the Rockies need to play. I think our guys understand that.”Colorado right-handed Antonio Senzatela (5-6, 4.81 ERA) will face Arizona left-hander Patrick Corbin (11-6, 3.09) in the second game of the series Saturday.The Diamondbacks, who led the NL West on Sept. 1, have lost 10 of their last 13 games and have dropped six games behind the division-leading Dodgers and 5 1/2 games behind St. Louis for the second wild-card spot.Colorado closed to within 1 1/2 games of the first-place Dodgers in the NL West, and the Rockies are 1 1/2 games behind the Cardinals for the second wild-card berth.The Rockies rallied for four two-out runs in the eighth inning off four Arizona pitchers for the fourth victory over the Diamondbacks in the last five meetings. It was a pick-me-up for an offense that had scored only nine runs in the previous six games.“I’d like to say that we have really hit the ball hard, but honestly I can’t,” Black said. “It’s been a little difficult, but tonight was a good sign. We’ve had some opportunities on this trip and we haven’t got the key hit.“But we have to let that go. We have to turn the page on the last seven days and go from there.”Arizona manager Torey Lovullo returned his regulars to the lineup after giving his top four hitters — Paul Goldschmidt, David Peralta, A.J. Pollock and Eduardo Escobar — an unexpected day off Wednesday, when the Diamondbacks beat the Chicago Cubs 9-1 and got homers from Christian Walker, Chris Owings and Jeff Mathis.They did not get a runner past second base after Peralta’s two-run homer in the first inning Friday.Colorado again played without All-Star shortstop Trevor Story, and there is no announced timeline for his return. He has missed three games in a row after suffering a right elbow injury in a game against the Dodgers last Monday.Story took early batting practice before Friday’s game and did some throwing, but he will not be rushed.“This is still an injury that if you push it you could go backwards,” Black said, adding http://www.yankeesfanproshop.com/authentic-giancarlo-stanton-jersey , “the thinking is that another day, maybe the next two or three days” until Story might return “I think it is going to depend on some of the tests Trevor does during the game in the training room. How he reports tomorrow. Today was encouraging, just because he had a bat in his hand. He was taking batting practice. He had a glove on his hand. He was making some throws. And he did this with the confidence that he’ll play at some point in the next 10 games. “I wish I could tell you when.”Senzatela has made 11 starts this season after joining the rotation on July 3. His first was his best – three hits over seven scoreless innings in an 8-1 victory over San Francisco at Coors Field. He has faced the Diamondbacks twice as a starter and once in relief this season, going 0-3 while allowing 10 runs in 14 innings. He was the loser in the only game the Rockies lost to Arizona in their last series at Coors Field, giving up seven hits and four runs in six innings of a 6-3 loss. Senzatela, in his second year, is 0-4 with a 7.66 ERA in seven career outings, including three starts, against the Diamondbacks and 0-2 in Chase Field.Corbin is having the best year of his career in every measurable except victories, mostly because he has received an average of fewer than four runs per game. It is the seventh-lowest support among qualifiers.He has a career-high 235 strikeouts, the first time he has exceeded 200, and has walked only 43. Only the Mets’ Jacob deGrom and Washington’s Max Scherzer have a better strikeout-to-walk ratio. Corbin’s 1.03 WHIP ranks fourth.Corbin will face the Rockies for the fourth time this season, the second time at Chase Field. He won the season opener at home 8-2, giving up two runs in 5 2/3 innings, and has two no-decisions at Coors Field. He is 1-0 with a 3.86 ERA against Colorado this season and is 8-3 with a 4.63 ERA in 20 career appearances, including 19 starts, against them.Nolan Arenado has hit two homers off Corbin this season and DJ LeMahieu has one. The final season of arguably the best center fielder Arizona has ever had was not the one anyone was hoping for."2018 rating: 6.482017 rating: 7.282018 salary: $7,750,0002018 performance: 113 games, 460 PA, .257/.316/.484 = .800 OPS, 106 OPS+, 110 wRC+ http://www.yankeesfanproshop.com/authentic-giancarlo-stanton-jersey , 2.5 bWAR, 2.5 fWAR2019 status: Free-agent with qualifying offer attached (offer declined)After the 2017 playoff season came to a close, a number of questions popped up surrounding the future of A.J. Pollock. Would the team keep him for 2019 and risk losing him to free agency? Would they trade him, trying to turn that one year of control and ability to make a qualifying offer into pieces for the future? Would Pollock be healthy enough to play significant time? Eventually, Arizona’s front office decided to try and build on the 2017 success and go for it all in 2018. This meant retaining potentially valuable trade pieces in Pollock and left-handed starter, Patrick Corbin.Over the first six weeks of the season, Pollock established himself as one of the few healthy, productive members of the Arizona offense. Through May 14, Pollock had batted .293/.349/.620 with 11 home runs for an OPS of .969. Simply put, he was getting the job done, regardless of position played. Pollock though, was continuing to play exceptional defense in center field on top of reminding the world just how dynamic a player he could be. During the span, he also swatted 10 doubles, three triples, and stole nine bases. In short, Pollock was performing like the Pollock of old, the 2015 version that put up a 7.2 bWAR season.But then things went south. Playing hard defensively, as he is known to do,Pollock dove for a sinking liner to center and missed. In the process, he managed to roll the thumb on his glove hand. The injury forced him to leave the game and sent Pollock to the DL.Pollock wound up missing the next six weeks of the season. When he came back, his swing was still noticeably off. Gone too was his power stroke. While neither Pollock or the team ever tried to deflect the performance issues to lingering effects from the thumb injury, it is difficult not to draw a straight-line conclusion from his thumb being injured to his swing being off and devoid of power when he returned.Pollock’s struggles at the plate over the last two months of the season coincided with Arizona’s swoon late-season swoon. The result is, Pollock took quite a bit of the blame for the team’s offensive woes. On the other hand http://www.yankeesfanproshop.com/authentic-giancarlo-stanton-jersey , he continued to be strong defensively.While not necessarily the home run-robbing highlights of Jarrod Dyson, these are the sorts of plays that Pollock made on a routine basis. His ability to cover so much ground and his strong center fielder instincts were a big part of why the Diamondbacks were the nest defensive team in baseball in 2018.Despite Pollock’s struggles after returning from injury, he was not entirely absent. Just about the time people started writing him off, he would have a good game. This sort of play just served to irritate fans even more in the long run, as it was clear he still had the talent, but that he just wasn’t performing on the regular.By the time the season came to a close, fan reception of Pollock had soured badly. Despite this, Pollock did salvage some goodwill with his final strong performance of the season, which happened to come at home in the final game against the Dodger. On that night, Zack Greinke pitched six solid innings and Pollock backed him up with a two hit night, one of those hits a three-run homer deep to center field, high enough to make it onto the concourse.That’s not a bad night for his final home game as an Arizona Diamondback.OutlookAfter the season was over, the Arizona Diamondbacks made A.J. Pollock a qualifying offer. Unsurprisingly, Pollock turned the offer down. With the Diamondbacks trading away Paul Goldschmidt and also having a mandate to trim payroll, it seems unlikely that the Diamondbacks are even talking to Pollock’s agent about a potential return. Now, the Diamondbacks await news of how much Pollock signs for elsewhere. In order to maximize their return from making the qualifying offer, the Diamondbacks are rooting for Pollock to sign a deal worth more than $50 million. This seems like an almost sure thing to happen as it is rumored that the Mets, Reds, and Phillies are all showing significant interest in Pollock. When he does sign a deal worth more than $50 million, the Diamondbacks will net themselves another draft pick which will be located between the first round the the COmpetitive Balance A round of the draft.