The Colorado Rockies came out swinging in their first game of this road trip against the Los Angeles Dodgers, taking an early lead and playing some solid baseball until the wheels came off the wagon in a bottom of the fourth that decided the game. The visitors took the lead in the top of the first with back-to-back home runs…...

DENVER – With every chance to win their third straight series, the Colorado Rockies couldn’t get enough done on offense and saw a late collapse from the bullpen to drop the rubber match to the New York Mets by a score of 7-4. On paper, it looked like a mismatch for the starting pitchers between Jeff Hoffman and Noah Syndergaard.…...

DENVER – We had ourselves a good old fashioned pitchers’ duel at Coors Field on Tuesday night… until we didn’t anymore. Tim Melville of the Colorado Rockies and Marcus Stroman of the New York Mets matched each other early through the first half of the game. Through five innings, the two teams combined for a grand total of four hits,…...

DENVER – Well, it’s all a bit too late but it can’t be denied that the Colorado Rockies are playing solid fundamental baseball right now. After taking a series from the NL Central leading St. Louis Cardinals and sweeping division rival San Diego Padres, the Rockies took the first game of a set against the Wild Card hopeful New York…...

DENVER – Since being mathematically eliminated from postseason contention, the Colorado Rockies have not lost a baseball game. They have now followed up their series win over the St. Louis Cardinals with a series sweep over the San Diego Padres, thanks to a complete team win on Sunday afternoon at Coors Field. Starter Chi Chi Gonzalez put in a workmanlike…...

DENVER – After surprisingly taking the series against the NL Central leading St. Louis Cardinals, the Colorado Rockies kept their little bit of late-season momentum going on Saturday night at Coors Field. Hanging on to beat the Padres by a score of 11-10 after a late flurry from the visitors, the Rockies took the series after having beaten the Friars…...

DENVER – The last time the San Diego Padres and Colorado Rockies met at Coors Field, they combined for 92 total runs during a four-game set, the most in the modern era. It was mid-June and the Rockies had just climbed out of eight-game hole to pull into second place in the NL West thanks to a .682 winning percentage…...

The St. Louis Cardinals came into Coors Field hot and hoping to stay that way as they battle for postseason positioning in the National League Central, currently sitting atop that division. But for the second straight contest, they lost a pitchers’ duel to the Colorado Rockies who held on to win 2-1 and to secure an improbable series win. It…...

DENVER – In his last start, Chi Chi Gonzalez redeemed himself after an atrocious 0.2 inning performance with an impressive six-inning showing against the first place Los Angeles Dodgers, allowing just two runs. Tuesday night, he was even better against the first place St. Louis Cardinals, holding the NL Central leaders to a single run and earning his first win as…...

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…...

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 – 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 – 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 – Most people in Rockieland had never heard of RHP Tim Melville one week ago but he has now strung together 13 innings of work in which he has surrendered just one run. In just these two outings, he has become one of the best stories of the year for a club that admittedly hasn’t had much in the…...

After suffering a tough loss of the come-from-behind variety in the opener against the Cardinals, the Rockies took a tough loss of the other kind getting easily handled in an 8-3 game that was not as close as the score might suggest. Colorado, like most everyone else in baseball this season, had no answers for 23-year-old right-handed pitcher Jack Flaherty…...

The day began with another dose of terrible news for Rockies fans who still haven’t gotten numb to it despite a steady stream of such news all season long. Coming on the heels of losing Scott Oberg, by far their best reliever, for the remainder of the season and hot on the trail of the Kyle Freeland issue from…...

With hopes of starting another four-game winning streak on Tuesday night, Kyle Freeland delivered a solid start until departing unexpectedly with a groin injury in the sixth. A late comeback was not enough after Bryan Shaw couldn’t steady the ship during a five-run inning that sank the Rockies, 8-7. Freeland retired the first six batters of the game in hopes…...

DENVER – Las Cucarachas don’t die easily. If you were one of the 38,181 at Coors Field who witnessed any of Colorado’s three comebacks on Sunday, you know the cockroaches usually have the last laugh. The 7-6 win wasn’t how the Rockies would have drawn it up, but Garrett Hampson’s walk-off single in the tenth inning punctuated Colorado’s fourth-straight victory and secured…...