DENVER (AP) — Kyle Freeland was a 14-year-old Rockies fan when Colorado made its improbable run to the 2007 World Series.Eleven years later http://www.redsfanproshop.com/authentic-cliff-pennington-jersey , he has gone from fanatical follower to a reason the franchise is in the hunt for its first division title.Freeland pitched six strong innings, Wade Davis worked out of a ninth-inning jam and the Rockies beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2 on Saturday night to remain atop the NL West.The Rockies are 6-1 in September, evoking memories of Rocktober 11 years ago when Freeland, born and raised in Denver, was in middle school.“I remember it like it was yesterday. I think about it quite a bit, something that was very special to me,” he said. “Even though I wasn’t part of the organization, I was part of the city and it holds a special place in my heart, being here and being a part of this team that has a chance to do something special like that again.”Chris Iannetta and Charlie Blackmon homered for Colorado, and Davis allowed a run before striking out Yasmani Grandal with a man aboard to finish his 39th save.Colorado moved 1 1/2 games ahead the second-place Dodgers. The Rockies are alone in first place after August for the first time since 1995 and have never won a division title.Chris Taylor homered for Los Angeles, which made it interesting in the ninth. Max Muncy hit an RBI double with two outs before Davis struck out Grandal looking.The Dodgers have scored three or fewer runs in seven of their last nine games.“Offensively, we just can’t get synced up,” manager Dave Roberts said. “I think the at-bats are there. It’s just the results aren’t there.”Freeland (14-7) had something to do with that in his career-high 28th start. He lowered his ERA to 2.91 with another strong outing against a lineup of all right-handed hitters. He allowed one run and four hits and struck out eight for his seventh consecutive quality start and 20th of the season.With three weeks left in the season, he has a chance to record the best ERA ever by a Rockies starter. Ubaldo Jimenez’s 2.88 ERA in 2010 is the lowest in franchise history.Freeland has a 2.99 career ERA at Coors Field Anthony DeSclafani Jersey , the lowest in the park’s history among pitchers with 50 innings.“I think you saw what we’ve seen from Kyle all year,” manager Bud Black said. “He pitched outstanding.”Iannetta gave Colorado a 1-0 lead with his 10th homer leading off the second against Walker Buehler (6-5). Ian Desmond drove in David Dahl with a single in the third and Blackmon hit a two-run shot in the fifth to make it 4-1.Taylor homered off Freeland in the top of the fifth for Los Angeles’ first run.“He’s got really good stuff and you try to take advantage when he makes a mistake and leaves it out over the plate,” Taylor said.RESTLESS NIGHT OFFColorado third baseman Nolan Arenado understood why he wasn’t in the starting lineup, but he wasn’t happy with sitting. The All-Star and five-time Gold Glove Award winner is 5 of 39 at the plate in his last 10 games, which has dropped his average below .300. He hasn’t hit a home run since Aug. 24 and has gone deep only three times since the end of July.Despite the prolonged power outage, he wanted to play.“I don’t make those calls,” he said. “I don’t want it, but there’s no beating around it, I’m not play well. That’s why I’m not playing today.”Arenado has been battling a sore right shoulder that bothers him when he throws but not his swing. Manager Bud Black said a night off might help.“Offensively, it just doesn’t feel right,” he said. “His timing’s off, there’s some other things going on.”EXTRA! EXTRA!With Taylor’s home run, the Dodgers now have seven players with at least 15 homers and 15 doubles in a season for the first time in franchise history.Los Angeles had six players reach those marks in two previous seasons (1949 and 2017).GRAND MILESTONERockies second baseman DJ LeMahieu’s single in the first inning was the 1,000th hit of his career. He added another single in the eighth inning.UP NEXTIt will be a battle of lefties in the finale of the three-game series on Sunday. The Dodgers will send Rich Hill (7-5 Adam Duvall Jersey , 3.73) to the mound and the Rockies will counter with Tyler Anderson (6-7, 4.80). An important lesson in transcribing interviews."UPDATE (February 7): Cleveland.com has since edited the original interview to clarify Chris Antonetti’s statements on signing players long-term. Turns out he was, in fact, not trying to call out his star player for not being an ideal player on and off the field, but was asked a completely separate question, which was not in the original article. While it’s still ultimately disappointing that the Indians haven’t reached an extension with Lindor, at least now it sounds like the very reasonable explanation of “Francisco Lindor wants an absolute boatload of money which he absolutely deserves” and not that the Indians don’t believe in him. Below is my original post about the question, unedited for posterity. Take a second and breathe. Let’s all be rational adults here. Chris Antonetti answered a bunch of questions from Paul Hoynes, none of which had any kind of follow-up, and in one of them he sort of sounded like he was trashing his best player who is slated to be a free agent in two years. It’s fine. Everything is fine. This is fine. Let’s just look at the quote, surely it’s fine. Oh mama. Surely there’s some context we’re missing. What does he say next? Oh noooooooo.Ok, hold up. Maybe he’s not talking about Lindor, specifically. Just one of those overly broad corporate answers. Of course they need to find the right player, but there’s nothing in Hoynes’ question that would suggest he’s talking about Frankie Michael Lorenzen Jersey , right?Oh nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.I’ve looked over these quotes countless times now, trying to find a way that I’m possibly reading it wrong. Is there any way that Indians President Chris Antonetti is not implying his All-Star shortstop is not the “right type of person that will positively contribute on the field and in our clubhouse?” Hoynes asked nothing about either one of those things, only if recent paycuts had to do with extending Lindor and yet here he goes on this mini spiel about it. Implying that they haven’t made a “bet” on Lindor yet because they have to be sure he brings on field production and in the clubhouse is just flat-out bizarre. Did Antonetti forget that he was asked specifically about Lindor and initiated his Generic Response to Contract Extension Protocol? Because I’m pretty sure Lindor has proved he can contribute on the field, unless the Indians are really going off the deep end about not retaining players over 30. At the very least, the implication of the first quote is that the Indians front office still isn’t sure that Lindor can contribute and being a clubhouse presence going forward and that’s why they haven’t pulled the trigger on an extension. The second quote could make sense, given that the Indians have reportedly been trying to sign Lindor to a long-term as far back as spring training 2017 — a story broken by small child Brody Chernoff. At the time, the deal was supposedly $100 million for seven years, but that was when Francisco Lindor was only a Rookie of the Year runner-up and All-Star, World Series starting shortstop. Now he also has an additional 7.6 fWAR season under his belt and a looming CBA negotiation that could mean more money in his pocket down the road. He bet on himself and won, big time. What I’m saying is, I wouldn’t blame Lindor for not signing and extension now, and I wouldn’t blame Antonetti for feeling like the Indians have tried but nothing is working. But good lord, phrasing things the way he did mere weeks after losing a pair of clubhouse guys in Yan Gomes and Michael Brantley and potentially alienating another in Corey Kluber by dangling him on the trade market just doesn’t sit right. This feels weird.