Taco Seasoning
Carlos Gonzalez has your tacos right here…again.
With the Rockies putting up seven or more runs on Wednesday and Thursday nights this week, the fine people of Colorado are treated to two consecutive days of taco specials at a certain Mexican-themed fast food chain.
It’s been much discussed this season that the Rockies have been struggling to produce runs while the pitching has been dominant. With the bats waking up (hopefully for good this time), this seems like a good opportunity to take a look at taco stats so far in 2010 to see evidence of these trends.
-The Rockies have invoked the cheap taco deal by scoring seven or more runs in a game 16 times.
-There have been 14 happy taco days, where the Rockies trigger the taco deal in a winning effort.
-If you’re too lazy to do the math, that means Thursday night’s extra-inning loss accounts for only the second sad taco day all year. That stat can speak to both the pitching dominance and offensive struggles the Rockies have shown this season. In order for a sad taco day to be possible, the Rockies offense must score at least seven runs and the pitchers must give up at least eight.
-Based on those minimum requirements, the lack of sad tacos in our lives has more to do with good pitching than bad run production. While the Rockies have scored seven or more in 16 games this year, the pitching staff has surrendered eight or more runs only seven times. By June 25 last season, the Rockies had scored seven or more on 21 occasions, while allowing eight or more on 14 occasions.
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4 Responses
Scott June 26th at 12:42 pm
No tacos, but Jonathan Herrera served up a delicious, sizzling order of victory fajitas last night.
mike June 29th at 7:55 pm
Apparently old people really like cheap tacos. I didn’t get to TB today until 6:30pm or so, and thus no cheap happy tacos for me (instead a single full price but still happy burrito combo), but I counted no less than ten senior citizens finishing up cheap taco meals (you can tell because they all had the super small drinks). This is at a location where I don’t ever recall seeing an old person otherwise. For that matter, I’ve never see old people on any previous cheap taco days. Maybe old people just really trust Cargo.
Scott June 30th at 5:56 am
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a senior citizen at Taco Bell. I guess the Rockies Taco Special is Taco Bell’s version of the Early Bird Dinner. Come in at 4:00 and get a cheap meal. Then it’s off to bed and up at 3AM to have breakfast. Probably also have to wash the sheets beacuse an old person just ate 4 tacos from Taco Bell before going to bed.
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