The Bucs’ recent six-game winning streak felt miles away this afternoon, after their pitching staff was bludgeoned from pillar to post by the Rockies’ offense.
Starter Ivan Nova struck out five batters and only walked one, but he allowed eleven men to reach base during his five-plus innings of work. Four of them scored during the third inning, a death-by-a-thousand-cuts frame that included four singles, a walk, and a hit-by-pitch on a fastball that caught D.J. LeMahieu right in the...