Rocky Mountain low

The Blue Jays went into the three-game series against the Colorado Rockies this week with by far the better season. The Jays had won twice as many games this year as the poor, beleaguered Rockies. The Jays proceeded to win all three games and set new records.
Sound great doesn’t it? Well, it wasn’t. I won’t be watching the Jays for a while, such is my disgust.
This was not the same fine Jays team that recently swept four games from the New York Yankees. That was some of the best baseball I’ve ever seen and secured a three-game lead for first place over the mighty Bronx Bombers.
Last night was a different story. The Jays were ahead 15-1 in the top of the ninth inning. The game was already a laugher. I should have gone looking for the nightly newscast.
Instead, I watched as the Rockies sent out to the mound someone who clearly was not a pitcher. I guess they wanted to save their aces. The Jays jumped all over catcher Austin Nolan and scored five more runs to win the game 20-1.
“They’re adding to their totals,” said one of the announcers by way of explanation. I’ll say. In football, it would be called a pile-on. The Rockies should have conceded. Or the Jays should have stayed in the dugout. Anything would have been better than the even more lopsided outcome the game already was. The Jays scored 45 runs in the three-game series, a new record not just for the team, but for all teams. The 63 hits in the series was a Jays record.
To be sure, the Jays have been doing well. During the last two months they’ve won twice as many games as they’ve lost. They’re in first place in their division. They’ve got the best record in the American League, 67-48.
But what happened last night besmirched that record. The Rockies are among the worst teams in baseball. Feasting off them like that was poor sportsmanship. Davis Schneider, one of my favourite players, hit his second home run of the game in the ninth. I did not cheer. It was too easy. I might have hit been able to hit a home run off that stand-in pitcher.
I’d like to make a modest proposal. None of what happened last night in Denver should go into any record books. And we should send an official apology to the Rockies and their fans.