MEDIA CLIPS – March 22, 2017 Social media comes #TogetherForBettis By Thomas Harding / MLB.com | @harding_at_mlb | March 21st, 2017 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Rockies Nation, baseball fans and, well, good people everywhere received a happy and hopeful tweet before bed Monday night. Monday marked Rockies right-handed pitcher Chad Bettis' first chemotherapy treatment as he battles testicular cancer. Bettis hopes to return to pitching this season. Follow Chad Bettis Wow! I mean WOW people! Thank you so much for everything! The love, support and prayers! My family and I love y'all! We WILL beat this! 7:16 PM - 20 Mar 2017 The Rockies used social media to allow fans, teammates and everyone to rally under the hashtag #TogetherForBettis. 1 Colorado Rockies Chad Bettis began his chemotherapy treatment today. Let's show Chad and his family how much love and support they have!#TogetherForBettis 5:35 PM - 20 Mar 2017 Teammates such as catcher Tony Wolters, shortstop Trevor Story, relief pitcher Matt Carasiti and first baseman Ian Desmond helped lead the response. Tony Wolters One of the strongest guys that I know, he will be back on the mound better than ever soon. We are all behind you brother. You got this. 2 Trevor Story We are #BettisBrave and we are behind you my dude! Much love @cbettis35 8:13 PM - 20 Mar 2017 Matt Carasiti #TogetherForBettis stay strong brotha! We're all here for you! @cbettis35 9:13 PM - 20 Mar 2017 Follow Ian Desmond @Rockies @cbettis35 Been great getting to know you so far this spring, can't wait to take the field with you. #TogetherForBettis 5:48 PM - 20 Mar 2017 And Bettis' old college team, the Texas Tech Red Raiders, stood up for him. Follow Texas Tech Baseball @TTU_Baseball #WreckEm #TogetherForBettis https://twitter.com/Rockies/status/843984494143180801 … 5:49 PM - 20 Mar 2017 One of the first players in the Majors to step in was Cubs pitcher Jon Lester, who survived a bout with anaplastic large cell lymphoma. Follow Jon Lester We're with you! RT @Cubs: @Indians @Rockies @cbettis35@Reds Thinking of you, Chad. Keep fighting. #NVRQT#StayStrong@JLester34 @ARizzo44 6:09 PM - 20 Mar 2017 Teams around the Majors also noted that even though Bettis is a rival, they're all in this together. 3 Arizona Diamondbacks @Rockies @cbettis35 We'll fight this together, Chad! With you every step of the way. #TogetherForBettis @Padres @Dodgers@SFGiants 8:15 PM - 20 Mar 2017 The National Football League's Denver Broncos, Major League Soccer's Colorado Rapids -- using a picture of goalkeeper Tim Howard, who had a memorable visit to the Rockies' clubhouse last year -- and Major League Lacrosse's Denver Outlaws led the charge among Denver's pro sports teams. Follow Denver Broncos #BroncosCountry is definitely #TogetherForBettis. Stay strong, @cbettis35.@nfl Colorado Rockies Chad Bettis began his chemotherapy treatment today. Let's show Chad and his family how much love and support they have!#TogetherForBettis pic.twitter.com/fGCZkZANIp Colorado Rapids .@Rockies @cbettis35 The entire #Rapids96 organization is with you Chad. Can't wait to see you back on the mound!#TogetherForBettis pic.twitter.com/bCMnyjDoSF 6:39 PM - 20 Mar 2017 4 Denver Outlaws Stay strong @cbettis35#OutlawsNation is cheering for you! #TogetherForBettis @Broncos https://twitter.com/Rockies/status/843984494143180801 … 7:24 AM - 21 Mar 2017 5 Chatwood fans 12 Minor Leaguers in tune-up By Thomas Harding / MLB.com | @harding_at_mlb | March 21st, 2017 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Tyler Chatwood felt a little stuffy, allergies and all. And he was working Tuesday while his Rockies teammates had the day off. But it was a good day. Needing to stay on schedule and keep the rest of the staff in line, Chatwood faced Rockies Minor Leaguers for six innings and struck out 12 while holding them to one run on four hits and one walk. Of the right-hander's 80 pitches, 59 were strikes. Chatwood also aced his assignment: To mix in all of his pitches. His fastball was up in the zone and his curveball was particularly sharp. One of his innings featured three strikeouts on 10 pitches, with a single two-strike foul ball standing between him and what's known as an immaculate inning (three strikeouts on nine pitches). "I felt good with everything," Chatwood told a reporter at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick. "They're young but they're still hitters, so you've got to take them serious. "I feel like my command is where I want it to be right now. That's just the biggest thing, getting my pitch count up. I still felt strong my last inning. I think my last two were the sharpest." 6 CarGo enjoys WBC '17, happy to rejoin Rockies By Owen Perkins / MLB.com | March 21st, 2017 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- A quick glance around the Rockies' clubhouse Monday morning revealed a roomful of players with wide smiles on their faces. Carlos Gonzalez was back from the World Baseball Classic, and rather than lament the second-round exit by Team Venezuela, he and his teammates reveled in the opportunity to be back together as a team. In his second Classic, Gonzalez went four games further with Venezuela than in 2013, forcing a tiebreaker and making it to the second round, where his team went winless against Puerto Rico, the United States and the Dominican Republic. "At least I'm glad that I got to play a little longer," Gonzalez said. "Last time I only played three games and we were out. Of course, you want to be in the championship, but it was a little better. It was fun." The challenge of moving on through two tough pools made for an intense break from Spring Training, and Venezuela advanced from the first round through a complicated tiebreaker process that favored its lineup's ability to put crooked numbers on the scoreboard. Gonzalez did his part, hitting .308 (8-for-26) with a pair of doubles in seven games, amping things up after starting the spring at .250 (5-for-20) in seven Cactus League games. "It's good for the players," Gonzalez said. "You're playing almost playoff games this early. It's going to help us mentally just to take everything else so slow, because we were playing fast games with a lot of adrenaline." The winless second round was tough on Venezuela, but Gonzalez found plenty of positives to make it worthwhile. "The whole second round was fun, because the teams that were in it -- U.S., Dominican, Puerto Rico, Venezuela," Gonzalez said. "It was fun to play against my teammate [Nolan Arenado]. This is not going to happen very often, so you better enjoy it. It felt weird to have a tough spot, I'm playing defense, and Nolan is hitting. What do I do now?" Arenado and reliever Jake McGee are still competing with Team USA -- the second time the team has made it to the semifinals in four Classics, and Gonzalez credits success with waking the American fans up and getting them more excited by the tournament. 7 "It's hard not to when your team is in," Gonzalez said, lighting up the locker room with his laughter. "If your team's not in it, you don't care anymore." Ultimately, Gonzalez's second Classic was worth it, and it's easy to imagine the 31-year-old leaping at the chance to represent Venezuela again in four years. "The WBC's a tournament we play for our country," Gonzalez said. "You go from playing games here when you're trying to get ready, to playing 150 percent. But it was fun being around the guys and playing against some really good players from other countries. I can't regret that." The World Baseball Classic runs through Wednesday. In the U.S., games air live exclusively in English on MLB Network and on an authenticated basis via MLBNetwork.com/watch, while ESPN Deportes and WatchESPN provide the exclusive Spanish-language coverage. MLB.TV Premium subscribers in the U.S. have access to watch every tournament game live on any of the streaming service's 400-plus supported devices. The tournament is being distributed internationally across all forms of television, internet, mobile and radio in territories excluding the U.S., Puerto Rico and Japan. Get tickets for games the Championship Round at Dodger Stadium, while complete coverage -- including schedules, video, stats and gear -- is available at WorldBaseballClassic.com. 8 Bettis begins chemo, hopes to pitch in '17 Rox righty battling recurrence of testicular cancer; Dahl's bone healing By Owen Perkins / Special to MLB.com | March 20th, 2017 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The Rockies are working to get a handful of players back onto Salt River Fields at their Spring Training complex, but their thoughts on Monday were with pitcher Chad Bettis. Bettis learned two weeks ago that his testicular cancer had spread since his Nov. 29 surgery. He began chemotherapy Monday in an effort to aggressively treat the cancer. Having caught the recurrence early gave Bettis tremendous hope for being able to beat it and get back to baseball. "Chad has handled this so gracefully and courageously," manager Bud Black said before Monday's game with the Cubs. "He's kept such a positive frame of mind around the clubhouse, and to the guys, it's been great. You could see why so many players gravitate to him and the role that he's taken on this team through a leadership position. The last couple years, he's been great. His work with guys in and around the clubhouse has shown, and even through this, he's been just a pillar of strength." Colorado is not setting any timetable for Bettis, but the 27-year-old right-hander is driven to return to the mound.