The Rockies are so good the pitcher doesn't even have to pitch to win a game.

Embree earns 'W' without throwing pitch
Rockies reliever first hurler to accomplish feat since 2003

DENVER -- Call Rockies left-hander Alan Embree the winning picker.

Embree entered Tuesday night's game against the Nationals with two out in the eighth, Austin Kearns the runner on first and the score tied at 4. Seconds later, the reliever was applying a tag to Kearns to end an odd rundown, which started with his pickoff throw.

The Rockies scored in the bottom of the eighth and won, 5-4, which made Embree the first Major Leaguer in six years -- and the second one in at least 23 years -- to earn a win without throwing a pitch.

Embree, 39, is sixth among active pitchers in appearances and second among left-handers. He is 30th on the all-time list. Yet, when his teammates placed the baseball in a sandwich bag for safe keeping, he could truly say it commemorated a unique experience.

"It was a fun play for me, because I'd never seen it," Embree said.

Embree joins Jays pitcher B.J. Ryan, who beat the Tigers without throwing a pitch on May 1, 2003, as the only players to accomplish the feat since STATS Inc. began tracking pitches in 1986. As of Tuesday night, no one had dug up an instance in the game's long history in which a pitcher didn't throw a pitch, was credited with a putout and earned a win.

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