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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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Air Max 95 From China . -- In one brief spurt, Brazil turned a close game into a rout and proved again it will be a strong World Cup favourite.Clubs are queuing up for Benji Marshall.Brisbane reserve grade clubs, that is.But the veteran playmaker is still backing himself to cement a spot in the Broncos top 17 next year.So much so that he has refused to answer calls from prospective reserve grade sides - for now.Marshall, 31, admitted there was a fair chance he would play in the second tier Queensland Cup after signing a shock one year Broncos deal for 2017.In a queue behind Broncos halves Anthony Milford and Ben Hunt, Marshalls best bet appears to be selection as a bench utility.Otherwise a lengthy Queensland Cup stint awaits.However, Marshall said he had begrudgingly refused to acknowledge calls from reserve grade clubs - so far.The phone hasnt stopped going, said Marshall, who officially began pre-season training with the Broncos this week.I have not answered the phone the last six weeks which has been pretty hard.My immediate goal is to not play there (Queensland Cup) but there is a fair chance that could happen.We will have to see where the Broncos want me to play, and I have no idea where that is.But my goal is to be in the best team and in the top 17 again.The former Kiwi captain has overcome hamstriing issues that sabotaged his 2016 season with the Dragons and threatened to leave him on the NRL scrapheap.ddddddddddddMarshall said he now wanted to make the most of his lifeline from Brisbane master coach Wayne Bennett.Even if it meant biding his time in reserve grade.I am looking forward to enjoying a season, Marshall said ahead of his 15th NRL season.One of the key things that Wayne said was that he wanted to see me with a smile on my face again.I want to have a fun year.If it is playing in that (reserve) grade then so be it.But I am professional and pretty competitive - I am not going to die wondering, put it that way.Marshall hopes that approach will help spark a return to the side-stepping, flick passing youthful version of himself.Looking back, since I have been a halfback I have always been worried about organising everyone else, Marshall said.I want a break from that and just to worry about myself for a second.People ask why I made this move. I have made a lot of decisions to please others in the past - this one is for myself. ' ' '