From Aug. 12-20, the Rockies put up a 7-2 record. Maybe there really was light at the end of a very long, dark tunnel.
Nope. Turn out the lights.
The Rockies were dominated by the Dodgers in Los Angeles again on Tuesday night, losing 7-2. L.A. blasted four home runs, two by Teoscar Hernandez.
The Rockies (40-105) have lost 11 of 13 games and 15 of their last 18.
All-Star catcher Hunter Goodman did provide a feel-good moment for Colorado in the ninth. After striking out in his first three at-bats, Goodman ripped a liner into the left-field seats for his 30th home run. He became the first Rockies hitter with 30 homers in a season since 2019 when the trio of Nolan Arenado (41), Trevor Story (35), and Charlie Blackmon (32) pulled it off.
For most of the game, Dodgers pitchers humbled Colorado hitters again. After getting no-hit for eight innings on Monday night, the Rockies were no-hit for five innings by right-hander Emmet Sheehan to begin Tuesday night’s game. It marked the first time in franchise history that the Rockies were no-hit for at least five innings in back-to-back games.
Colorado finally got on the scoreboard in the sixth. Kyle Karros led off with a single, advanced to second on Yanquiel Fernandez’s bloop double to left, and scored on Tyler Freeman’s single up the middle.
Sheehan’s slider baffled the Rockies, and he finished his seven-inning gem with nine strikeouts, one walk, and three hits allowed. Sheehan improved to 6-3 and whittled his ERA to 3.32. All told, the Rockies struck out 12 times.
Right-hander German Marquez, almost certainly pitching his final handful of games for the Rockies, played the good soldier by giving his team five innings and saving the bullpen. But the Dodgers beat him up for five runs on six hits, including a two-run homer by Mookie Betts in the third and a solo homer by Hernandez in the fourth.
Marquez struck out just two, and he has only six Ks over his last four starts. Marquez, who fell to 3-13, saw his ERA rise from 6.19 to 6.31. Marquez will be a free agent at the end of the season.
Colorado starters have a 6.67 ERA, which is on pace to surpass the 1996 Tigers’ (6.64) record for the highest in the modern era of the majors.
Hernandez hit his second homer in the eighth, a solo shot off Roansy Contreras. Freddie Freeman also hit a solo homer off Contreras in the eighth.
Wednesday pitching matchup
Rockies LHP Kyle Freeland (4-14, 5.10 ERA) at Dodgers LHP Blake Snell (3-4, 3.19)
8:10 p.m. Wednesday, Dodger Stadium
TV: Rockies.TV (streaming); Comcast/Xfinity (channel 1262); DirecTV (683); Spectrum (130, 445, 305, 435 or 445, depending on region).
Radio: 850 AM, 94.1 FM
Trending: The Rockies entered Tuesday night’s game against the Dodgers having not committed an error in their last eight games, their longest errorless streak since their 13-game stretch Sept. 4-17, 2023. The Rockies had committed just 21 errors since the All-Star break, tied for the 10th fewest among all teams — that, after leading the majors in errors during the first half of the season with 80. Last season, Colorado finished the year with a .986 team fielding percentage, tied for eighth in the majors and tied for the fifth-best in franchise history. The Rockies committed 82 total errors, the seventh-fewest in franchise history.
Pitching probables
Thursday: Rockies RHP McCade Brown (0-3, 12.54) at Padres TBA, 7:40 p.m.
Friday: Rockies RHP Tanner Gordon (5-6, 6.60) at Padres RHP Dylan Cease (7-11, 4.71), 7:40 p.m.
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