DENVER – Former Bradley pitcher Rob Scahill (Lombard, Ill./Willowbrook H.S.) made his Major League Baseball debut by tossing a scoreless ninth inning for Colorado in a 9-8 loss to the San Francisco Giants Tuesday night at Coors Field.
Scahill was added to the Rockies 40-man roster Sept. 5 after pitching the entire season to that point for the Triple-A Colorado Springs Sky Sox. He entered Tuesday's game to start the ninth inning with the Rockies trailing the NL West Division leaders, 9-6, and started the inning by getting a pair of flyouts. After Buster Posey doubled, Scahill got Hunter Pence to pop out to shortstop.
His ninth-inning work left the door open for a Colorado rally and the Rockies brought the tying run to the plate with two outs in the bottom of the ninth after Tyler Colvin's 2-run home run. Jason Giambi pinch-hit for Scahill, but lined out to third base to end the game.
An eighth-round pick by the Rockies in the 2009 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, Scahill became the 14th former Bradley Baseball player to reach the big-league level when he joined Colorado for the Sept. 5 game at Atlanta.
