It's Monday, July 7 and the Rockies (21-69) are in Boston to take on the Red Sox (46-45). Austin Gomber is slated to take the mound for Colorado against Richard Fitts for Boston. The Red Sox are coming off a three-game series sweep of the Nationals putting up 27 runs to Washington's 9.

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A massively disappointing first half to a season that was expected to feature significant on-field progress four years into a franchise rebuild has cost the two most prominent people in the Nationals organization their jobs.