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DENVER -- Jeff Hoffman will make his major league debut for the Colorado Rockies and start Saturday night at Coors Field against the high-flying Chicago Cubs.Right into the fire, Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. We feel like Jeff can handle it. Hes got plenty of stuff. Its plusstuff, even at the major league level. He can navigate lineups with his stuff only, but you got to be able to command it, too. I feel like hes ready for this.Youve got to start your career at some point, and his is going to be (today).Hoffman was the centerpiece acquistion when the Rockies traded for him and two other minor league pitchers on July 27, 2015, and sent star shortstop Troy Tulowitzki to the Toronto Blue Jays.This is the first full professional season for Hoffman, who underwent Tommy John surgery in May 2014 and pitched 104 innings at high-Class A and Double-A last season. Hoffman has pitched 118 2/3 innings this season.The Rockies will have to add Hoffman, 23, to their 40-man roster. He has spent the season at Triple-A Albuquerque, where he is 6-9 with a 4.02 ERA, 124 strikeouts and 44 walks in 118 2/3 innings.In Hoffmans past two starts, he has pitched a combined nine scoreless innings with four walks, 13 strikeouts and four hits allowed.Because this is Hoffmans first full professional season after Tommy John surgery, the Rockies began limiting Hoffmans outings. In his past five starts dating from July 20, he has thrown between 66 and 76 pitches but wont be on a severe pitch or innings limit against the Cubs.Weve backed off on him recently just so if he did come up here, he could go deeper into games, Weiss said. So we lightened the load to try to get out in front of it as opposed to dealing with it here.Hoffman will have five days of rest since he last pitched Sunday at Colorado Springs. In that outing, he allowed one hit in five scoreless innings with one walk and nine strikeouts and threw 66 pitches, 46 strikes.Mark Wiley, the Rockies director of pitching operations, watched that start and said of Hoffman, Hes got a live fastball with carry. He can create angles with it. He can pitch at the top of the strike zone. He has both a curveball and a slider that when theyre right, theyre following pretty good the fastball line to the plate so theyre hard to pick up, hard to see. And he has a changeup with good arm speed -- looks like his fastball.Mike Montgomery will make his first start for the Cubs and his third this season, taking the turn of injured John Lackey. Since the Cubs acquired Montgomery from Seattle on July 20, he has made seven relief apperances and has four straight scoreless outings totaling six innings, and two of those have been for two innings.Right fielder Jason Hayward, a free agent after last season who signed an eight-year, $184 million contract with the Cubs, is going to get this series off. Chicago manager Joe Maddon gave Hayward the day off Thursday when the Cubs played a day game after a night game. The Rockies started left-hander Tyler Anderson on Friday and will start left-hander Jorge De La Rosa on Sunday.Hayward is slumping in August with 9-for-48 (.188) this month with one RBI. Overall, hes hitting .225 in 108 games with five homers, 32 RBI, a .304 on-base percentage and a .313 slugging percentage. The left-handed hitting Hayward is batting .228 (26-for-114) against left-handed pitchers.So what Im thinking about doing is just giving him the whole weekend off, Maddon said. 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Carey Price didnt, but he still came out on top against one of his rivals for the No. 1 job at the Sochi Games. The Anahim Lake, B.C., native was stellar in making 39 saves in his home province and Lars Eller got credit for a bizarre short-handed winner as the Canadiens defeated the Canucks 4-1. KRAKOW, Poland -- Its a tough life on the road for new FIFA member Kosovo.Sundays 3-0 loss to Ukraine in a Group I game staged in Poland meant the Kosovans have conceded nine goals this week at neutral venues.Fresh off a 6-0 home loss to Croatia which was actually played in Albania because Kosovo still doesnt have a certified stadium, Kosovo had to face Ukraine in Poland because the Ukrainian government doesnt recognize the tiny Balkan nations independence.Second-best for most of the game, Kosovo nevertheless kept the margin to 1-0 until the 81st minute, when Andriy Yarmolenko scored one goal, then set up another, to end a five-game winless run for Ukraine. The Dynamo Kiev winger has scored in all three of Ukraines games so far in World Cup qualifying as the team tries to rebuild after losing all its games at the European Championship.There had been fears of crowd trouble but the game appeared to pass off peacefully.Ukraine took the lead thanks to Artem Kravets deflected first-half goal. Kosovo could have taken something from the game, with Ukraine goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov coming close to an own-goal in the 61st before a Kosovan shot rattled the crossbar minutes later.Ukraine was angered by having three close penalty appeals turned down, but nerves were calmed when Yarmolenko controlled a cross from substitute Alexander Karavayev and slotted it into the net. Soon after, he set up the third goal for Ruslan Rotan, who had seen an earlier strike ruled out because offside players were interfering with play.---FINLAND 0, CROATIA 1Mario Mandzukic hasnt had much luck in front of goal for Juventus this season, but he cant stop scoring for his country.ddddddddddddresh off a hat trick against Kosovo, the Croatia star scored the only goal of the game in Finland with a simple finish from point-blank range after Finnish goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky failed to deal with Andrej Kramarics cross.That keeps Croatia top of the group on seven points, level with Iceland and two ahead of Ukraine. Only the group winner qualifies automatically for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.Finland is level with Kosovo at the bottom of the group on one point.---ICELAND 2, TURKEY 0After Icelands impressive run at the European Championship, the success keeps coming.Turkey is the latest victim, beaten 2-0 in Iceland thanks to two goals shortly before halftime. The first was an own-goal from center-back Omer Toprak before Iceland forward Alfred Finnbogason scored with a volley 90 seconds later, hitting the back of the net for his third international game in succession.Iceland went out to France in the Euro 2016 quarterfinals. It reached the playoffs in 2014 World Cup qualification, losing to Croatia, which may prove its toughest opponent in the current qualifying campaign too.Coach Fatih Terims Turkey, meanwhile, now has just one win from its last seven games, continuing a miserable year which also included a group stage exit at the European Championship.Turkey has two points in Group I after three matches. ' ' '