Battery charged with drama

Is this the Game of Thorns or theWar of the Rosa’s? Can’t we all get along, Rockies?

When Jorge De La Rosa’s first three innings on the mound went sort of pfft Saturday night, he couldn’t blameWilin Rosario. Rosario wasn’t his catcher. De La Rosa didn’twant to begin his 33rd birthday and his first start of the season at home quite like this— 23minutes and 42 pitches in the first inning, 79 pitches and four runs through three. Brutal.

On a night you could have hung meat outside in LoDo, De La Rosa did.

Oh, we’re in for a long, cold night.

This was the first appearance for the Rox ace of diamonds since Game 1 inMiami and his fifth-inning blowup-meltdownfaceoff involving Rosario.

De La Rosa didn’t like the pitches being called. Manager WaltWeiss soon didn’t care for the pitches being thrown. De La Rosa was replaced and, for the second time (the first was in spring training), indicated that Rosario’s multiple signs, once a Marlins runner reached second, were the issue.

There have been talks and, supposedly, a truce. There has been a hue, and a cry, fromoutsiders that Rosario isn’t a proper catcher for De La Rosa, and that the topman in the rotation should get a personal caddie. A newnickname was tweeted Saturday night: “Jorge Diva Rosa.’’ Hurts.

Suddenly, up popped Jordan Pacheco as De La Rosa’s birthday present behind the plate. Weiss denied that he made the move to placate De La Rosa. The manager said he needed to give Rosario a day off this weekend, and he likes the (pitching) matchup Sunday for The Baby Bull.

Weiss does have a delicate situation between batterymates so early in the season but claims he’s not fretting.

When I spoke with him off to the side during batting practice Saturday afternoon, Walt said:

“It’s an easy fix.’’