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Ian Stewart is hitting .424 this month. 

     The Colorado Rockies, the Cinderella Story in last year’s playoffs who pulled off 14 wins in their last15 games including a one-playoff game win against the Padres, are looking to make another run at this year’s division title and look to be the dark horse in the NL West.  With their win against the red-hot Giants last night, they have won 8 of their last 10 games and moved within 7 games of the first-place D-Backs with about 31 games to go.  Rockies have dealt with numerous of injuries to key players throughout the season and have coped with all of that and their pitching problems and our playing their best baseball yet.  They just came into San Francisco last night and beat a red-hot Giants team who had won 5 straight and 7 of their last 9 and a red hot pitcher in Matt Cain.  The key player to the Rockies resurgence is rookie third baseman Ian Stewart.  Stewart went 2-3 with two runs scored in last night’s 4-2 victory.

     Due to first baseman Todd Helton being injured for pretty much the rest of the season, Rockies moved Atkins to first base and called up Stewart to play third. Since his callup, Stewart is hitting .319 avg. on the season with 9HR and 39 RBI’s.   In the month of August, Stewart is hitting .424 (which tops all Major League players) and has 5 HR’s and 19 RBI’s alone this month. He will probably be NL Player of the Month, and he is the key player down the stretch for the Rockies as they try and contend for the division title with many divisional games coming up in September.  However, look for Tim Lincecum and the San Francisco Giants to try and spoil their playoff hopes and other contenders’ playoff aspirations down the stretch.

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