SAN FRANCISCO -- Rockies manager Clint Hurdle called his late-inning relievers into his office on Friday night to make another change."I want to change closers once a month, and it's May 1, so I figured it was appropriate," Hurdle joked later to reporters.
In all seriousness, Hurdle said that he's back to using Huston Street in the ninth inning. Street opened the season as the closer, then lost his job to Manny Corpas. Corpas since pitched so poorly that he's not only lost the closer job, he's not even the setup man.
"What we'll do with Manny is revisit what we did when we brought him up (for the first time)," Hurdle said. "It's not the eighth inning. He's not pitching well enough for the eighth inning. We're going to try to get him more right-handers than left-handers. We'll try to go double innings to get more volume of pitches. But there's got to be better consistency, got to be better pitches."
Corpas, in the second year of a four-year, $8.025-million contract, converted the save in his first outing after regaining the closer job on April 21. In the four outings since, he's allowed nine hits in four innings, taking two losses.
Street has retired nine of the 11 hitters he's faced over his past four games.
