You can’t win baseball games if you don’t score runs. I’m pretty sure I read that someplace. The Colorado Rockies celebrated a brief respite from losing on Friday night by recording just three hits and failing to score in their second game against the San Diego Padres on Saturday. The 3-0 loss wasted a second straight quality outing from starting…...

At long last of the Colorado Rockies have won a baseball game. After losing nine in a row, they were holding out for a hero ’til the end of the night. And Tim Melville was quick on the fight. Bursting onto the scene with two inspiring performance out of nowhere, Melville Mania went on hiatus in an ugly third outing…...

Regardless of the five games separating Colorado from being mathematically eliminated from playoff contention, the 2019 season is completely vanquished. If the Rockies are going to contend for a playoff spot next season, there’s a strong chance they will be battling with the up-and-coming San Diego Padres. Friday night wasn’t exactly a glimpse into 2020 for either team. Starting pitcher…...

In what should come as a surprise to nobody after they were swept in four games by the Pittsburgh Pirates, one of the worst teams in the National League, the Colorado Rockies were swept in three by the best team in the National League, the Los Angeles Dodgers. After an absolute barrage of runs in the first game and a…...

After a career-worst performance that saw him exiting the first inning courtesy of a shellacking by a weak-hitting Pittsburgh squad Thursday night at Coors Field, starter Chi Chi González had a fantastic outing for Colorado on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium against the National League’s best offense. What difference a week makes. Twirling a shutout through six innings, González got…...

Seven in a row. After getting pummeled by the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday Night, the Colorado Rockies have now lost seven straight baseball games. The Rockies offense did their part against one of the best starting pitchers in the National League, plating an impressive six runs against fireballer Walker Buehler over the course of five innings. Even still, the…...

On Wednesday, Major League Baseball released the rosters for the six-team Arizona Fall League, the premier extended-season league for all 30 MLB team’s top prospects.  The Salt River Rafters have six Colorado Rockies representatives so far, with room for two more pitchers to eventually be added.  Only 1B Roberto Ramos is at Triple-A, while the other five players are…...

When the Colorado Rockies are at home, they have the steepest pitching challenge in all of baseball. When the Colorado Rockies on the road, they have the steepest hitting challenge in all of baseball. And yet, the handful of players who have been able to not only handle but conquer and master this dynamic have been overlooked and undervalued.…

In this original BSN Denver series, we take a look at some of the best Rockies’ photography of the last week as well as the top shot in the game of baseball....

DENVER – It was a series to forget for the Colorado Rockies. A 6-2 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday afternoon capped off a four-game sweep that drops the club to the second-worst record in the National League. The Rockies offense had no answer for former Regis University and current Pirates southpaw Steven Brault, collecting one base hit against…...

In this new series, BSN Rockies reporters Drew Creasman and Patrick Lyons battle for supremacy discussing various hot topics in-and-around the game of baseball. Creasman vs Lyons… who you got? Young players providing immediate impact Topic #1: How are some of the best and most exciting players in the game typically the youngest? Lyons: Ever since MLB banned performance…...

DENVER – Entering this weekend’s four-game series with the NL Central-worst Pirates, the NL West-worst Rockies were holding steady at 13th place in the National League. Saturday night’s loss, the third-straight at the hands of Pittsburgh and fifth-straight overall, moves Colorado back in the standings to 14th place or, as it’s more appropriate to call it, 2nd-worst in the league.…...

DENVER – The Colorado Rockies are currently trying to win baseball games with a starting pitching rotation full of guys who were not on the Opening Day roster. And they look like it right now. Antonio Senzatela’s struggles, especially when it comes to missing bats, continued in full force in a Friday night loss at Coors Field against the Pittsburgh…...

DENVER – This one was over almost as soon as it began. In a long slog of a game at Coors Field on Thursday night between the Colorado Rockies and the Pittsburgh Pirates, the home club was throttled right out of the gate and never recovered in an ultimate 11-8 loss that looks a lot closer than it felt. Starter…...

DENVER – Baseball games and baseball careers are defined by important moments. Big moments in big games on the biggest stages are immortalized and retold over and over again until legend becomes myth: a strikeout or home run or double in the gap that punctuates a game in October, a performance that breaks a record, athleticism that makes even the…...

DENVER – What a difference three months can make on a baseball season. When the Red Sox and Rockies squared off in Boston for a two-game set on May 14-15, Colorado was in the midst of clawing back from an awful start to the season. Even after whiffing 17 times against Chris Sale in the opener, the boys in purple…...

DENVER – Debut day at Coors Field may not have gone completely to plan, but the game was still a special occurrence with several memorable moments for the recently promoted RHP Rico Garcia and OF Sam Hilliard. Not only was Tuesday’s game the 2,000th regular season game played at Coors Field, it marked only the fourth time Colorado had two players debut…...

Part of Rico Garcia’s offseason workload involved an art project. No, seriously. Proudly displayed outside the Rockies clubhouse at the Salt River Field complex in Scottsdale, AZ, was a standard 22”x24” poster board Garcia created depicting the history of Hawaiian baseball players, from the initial (Johnnie Williams, 1914) to the first All-Star (Charlie Hough, 1986) all the way to the…...

Baseball is chaos. And if you are going to survive it, you’ll need someone you can trust. The Colorado Rockies 2019 campaign has been littered with debris that they thought had been marked for the trash bin before consecutive playoff appearances in 2017. They have simply played some of their worst collective baseball of the last four years and…...