#26
Friday 30th April — Colorado Rockies vs Arizona Diamondbacks @ Chase Field
Stop me if you’ve heard this before — but the Rockies got off to a strong start Friday night against the Diamondbacks. But, as usual, that momentum didn’t last, and the Rockies away-from-home record continues as a horror show. It’s painful to watch this team away from home and for large swathes of the game the Rockies’ offered absolutely nothing on offence.
Trevor Story whacked a 2-out double in the top of the 1st to get the Rockies’ their first baserunner of the night. He was followed by CJ Cron, who continued his hot hitting streak by driving in an RBI to give Colorado an early lead. This was about the last positive thing that happened for the Rockies.
Jon Gray has been one of the early highlights of the season for Colorado. His strong pitching has complimented a starting rotation that has played well, even if the win/loss record doesn’t reflect it. Through two innings, it looked and felt like Gray might be having one of those nights, but it all fell apart in the 3rd. A Madison Bumgarner single to leadoff served as the start of a miserable inning for the Rockies’, conceding 4 runs to give the DBacks a 4–1 lead. Gray just couldn’t locate his pitches, and left far too many in the middle of the zone for the Arizona hitters to punish. The frustration was visible, and Jon knew he was missing pitches. This continued into the 4th, with the DBacks hitting another triple to bring a run over and stretch the lead to 5–1.
The frustration must have rubbed off on the rest of the Colorado, because the Rockies ended the evening committing three errors, easily their highest total of the season. Two of those were on rough throws from Story to Cron (with one of the throws actually ended in the Rockies’ dugout), with the third coming from Fuentes.
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Between the 2nd and 6th inning, the Rockies didnt get a man on base. It was one of those sort of offensive performances for Colorado — lacklustre top to bottom. In the 7th, Jordan Sheffield gave up a 2-run HR to Rojas to put the game to bed for the Diamondbacks.
The Rockies have now dropped three straight away games and are 1–10 on the road. At this point, it almost feels like we should go into away games with a handicap. There’s so little to get excited about at the moment, and you don’t know where to turn to try and find that spark to ignite the team.
Anyway, onto the next one tomorrow.
Final Score — Colorado Rockies 2 — Arizona Diamondbacks 7
Rockies MVP — None
Rockies’ Record — 9–17
