Had Your Js winning 'bout 80-something games this season, in contention, but ultimately falling short of the playoffs by a few games.

Their injuries are no surprise, this is an old roster, and older players, they tend to get hurt more often, take longer to recover, that sort of thing.  Surely nobody can be surprised that, again, Tulowitzki is out due to somehow hurting himself sliding into a base.

Quelle surprise, eh?

Your Js played 7 games this week, giving up, in order, 10 runs, then 9, then 8, 0, then 5, then 7, then 1.  So 40 runs allowed in 7 games, a dreadful stretch of almost 6 runs allowed/game.  In the 5 games they lost, Your Js surrendered 39 runs, for almost 8/game allowed.

Not gonna win many with pitching like that.

But, it's just 1 week.

Guys like Pillar, Smoak, maybe Carrera a bit have picked up some of the slack, good for them, kept the team from totally falling out of it.