"Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse for the Rockies, their closer was driven off the field in an ambulance.

Turns out Huston Street suffered only an abdominal contusion Tuesday after being struck in the right pelvic area by an Ian Stewart line drive during batting practice. Street was listed as day to day after being released from Rose Medical Center.

Street fainted while writhing in pain down the right-field line. Said Rockies trainer Keith Dugger, "I think his body kind of went into shock."

But the most shocking part of the day played out a few hours later when the Rockies lost 4-2 to the Pittsburgh Pirates, a team whose wretched ways recently prompted The Amazing Kreskin to offer his services in hopes of helping the Bucs avoid another off decade.

Losing to the Pirates after a 2-9 road trip, and with Troy Tulowitzki back in the lineup for the first time in almost six weeks? If the heat wasn't on the Rockies before, it is now."