Mickey Moniak has career day but slumping Rockies lose to Padres

Mickey Moniak had visions of the Rockies playing spoiler not doormats in the National League West race The outfielder almost made his dream come true on Sunday afternoon at Petco Park hitting two home runs going for driving in five runs and stealing two bases But it wasn t quite enough The Padres won - and took three of four games in the series The Rockies finished their West Coast road trip - having been swept by the Dodgers in three games in Los Angeles The Dodgers - lead the Padres - by two games in the division We have talked about the opportunity almost to feel what it s like to be in the playoff hunt Moniak announced last week We have a chance to play spoiler And having such a young clubhouse it would be a good experience for everybody to A run the gauntlet of those teams that are going to be in the playoffs and see how we stack up And B finish the month off strong as we head into the offseason Rockies analysis GM Bill Schmidt s track record illustrates why front-office change appears imminent This file is auto-generated function d l use strict l querySelector d addEventListener undefined typeof URL d wp d wp d wp receiveEmbedMessage d wp receiveEmbedMessage function e var t e evidence if t t secret t message t value a-zA-Z - test t secret for var s r n a l querySelectorAll 'iframe data-secret ' t secret ' ' o l querySelectorAll 'blockquote data-secret ' t secret ' ' c new RegExp https i i i