If a team is going to be historically bad, it’s going to take negative contributions from everyone.
The bullpen has been one of the few relative strengths for the Colorado Rockies this season, but for the second straight night, a promising evening of baseball in LoDo ended with a meltdown. One day after blowing a four-run lead in the ninth inning, the Rockies gave away a three-run advantage Wednesday in the eighth as the San Francisco Giants rallied for an 10-7 win at Coors Field.
The result was another tough loss in a season full of them. Colorado is now 12-55, and has found its way into another losing streak — five straight after sweeping the Marlins in Miami last week.
Tyler Kinley faced six batters in the top of the eighth. He got one out.
Three singles, a bases-loaded walk and a two-run, bases-loaded double chased Kinley and leveled the score at 6-6. Initially, it appeared Ryan McMahon made a great defensive play to get Casey Schmitt at the plate after a bunt from Tyler Fitzgerald, but the Giants challenged the call and it was overturned.
San Francisco had a 7-6 lead, and the final damage against Kinley was four runs on four hits and a walk.
The Giants tacked on three more insurance run in the top of the ninth off Zach Agnos, who has now allowed 10 runs in his past four outings. His ERA has ballooned from 1.50 to 5.48 in six days.
Rockies starter Kyle Freeland outpitched a guy in the Cy Young conversation and pieced together his third straight quality start. He allowed three runs on six hits in six innings, and got the run support that has often been missing during some of his better outings this season.
He was 0-8 with an ERA pushing 6.00 after a disastrous Memorial Day weekend start against the Yankees, but Freeland has allowed six earned runs in 18 1/3 innings across his three outings since. He has just one win to show for it.
Robbie Ray has been one of the best pitchers in the National League, but he’s been particularly effective of late. He had allowed just eight runs in his past seven starts, dating back to May 2, and entered the night tied for the league lead with eight wins.
The Rockies found a way against him in the bottom of the third, and erased a 3-0 deficit. Hunter Goodman’s second double of the night scored one run. A harmless ground ball to second off the bat of Thairo Estrada added a second, but first baseman Jerar Encarnacion didn’t corral the throw and Goodman hustled around from second to tie it.
A Keston Hiura single capped off the rally and put Colorado in front. And as the middle of the game progressed, the Rockies extended the lead against one of the NL’s better bullpens.
Brenton Doyle singled, stole second and scored on an Orlando Arcia base hit just inside the first base bag to make it a 5-3 lead in the fifth. A leadoff triple from Ryan Ritter and a sacrifice fly from Tyler Freeman gave Colorado its own three-run advantage.
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Jung Hoo Lee drew a leadoff walk, and then Willy Adames connected on a 1-0 fastball for a 452-foot moonshot into the centerfield seats. Adames, the Giants’ prized offseason addition, came to Denver in the midst of the worst offensive season of his career but now has home runs in back-to-back games to start this series.
Lee tripled down the right-field line to lead off the third and scored on an Adames sacrifice fly to make it 3-0, and it looked like another long night for the home team was brewing at Coors Field.
For a few fleeting innings, the Rockies turned it around. Then, there was just another low point.
The back-to-back collapses against the Giants left the Rockies at 6-27 in their first 33 home games this season. Not only is that the worst start to a season at home in franchise history, it’s the worst 33-game stretch at any point.
And everyone is finding a way to contribute.
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