Right now, the Colorado Rockies are leaning more toward can't.

Colorado led the NL with a .280 batting average, but have managed just two runs in losing the first two games to Boston. The Rockies hitting only .180 overall heading into Game 3 on Saturday night at Coors Field.

"Maybe we're trying to do too much," Garrett Atkins said. "We're trying to get the big hit. We just need to get some singles, some walks. They've killed us by stringing together quality at-bats. That's the same kind of offense we have - we've just got to do it."

Perhaps a change is in order to break the club out of its hitting doldrums?

"I'm thinking through some things," manager Clint Hurdle said. "Anytime we get challenged offensively, you always need to rethink things and look at your options."

The Rockies could possibly move Matsui up a spot to lead off and slide shortstop Troy Tulowitzki into the No. 2 slot. That's what they did when Willy Taveras missed time at the end of the season with his quadriceps injury.

But Taveras doesn't think a change is necessary. He thinks the Rockies should keep the lineup the same. He likes the speed he and Matsui bring to the top of the lineup.

"This has worked before," said Taveras, who's hitting .120 in the postseason. "This can work. We have a lot of guys who can hit."

Hard to tell since their eight-day layoff leading into the Series. The Rockies have struck out 22 times in the first two games of the series.

The Rockies simply couldn't replicate Red Sox aces Josh Beckett and Curt Schilling through simulated games.

Now, it's coming back to haunt them. Not that Colorado had many options at the time.

"There's only so much you can do," Rockies hitting coach Alan Cockrell said. "There's nothing like going out and playing. But we're very close. Very, very close to getting our timing and rhythm back."

Ryan Spilborghs said the team just needs a hit off the end of the bat that falls in, or a broken-bat single, or anything else to break loose.