The Colorado Rockies had some early opportunities, but squandered them as the were swept by the Miami Marlins. They did, however, make things interesting in the ninth (as they keep doing), and nearly completed another comeback. After being down six runs to start the inning, they ended up losing by only two.
They are still searching for their elusive 42nd win to break the tie with the Chicago White Sox, and have lost their last five games. They have gone 2-14 in September, and have lost 18 of their last 21 games dating back to August 27. They have looked utterly gassed, but they still have nine games left in the 2025 season.
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Don’t Panic, Don’t Snooze
Tanner Gordon looked sharp to start the ballgame, throwing 16 pitches in a 1-2-3 first. He started strong in the second with a 5-3 groundout of Otto Lopez and a swinging strikeout of Graham Pauley on four pitches. However, Kyle Karros committed a fielding error to allow Eric Wagaman to reach, and then Troy Johnston walked. The free passes, as always, came around to bite as Dane Myers hit a sharp single to score Wagaman and put the Fish up 1-0. In total, Gordon threw 13 extra pitches in the second inning after the error.
Things started to fall off in the third, as Agustín Ramírez doubled and was then driven in by Liam Hicks on a two-run homer to retake the lead 3-2. Lopez then homered to extend the lead 4-2, but then Gordon got the next two batters to pop out and end the inning. He ended up allowing just one more baserunner — a Javier Sanoja single with two outs in the fourth — but in total pitched six innings while allowing five hits, four runs (three earned) with one walk and four strikeouts.
Blaine Crim, Independent
Blaine (not Trent) Crim got the Rockies offense started in the second with his second-career home run, a 406-footer to left to tie the ballgame. Karros was then hit by a pitch and Yanquiel Fernández walked, which set up Tyler Freeman to knock them both in two batters later and put the Rockies up 2-1.
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Crim also hit his second big fly of the game in the ninth, a 424-footer to left-center, which set up the Rockies four-run rally.
With his second home run, Crim became the ninth Rockie to have a multi-homer game (the last being Mickey Moniak on Sunday against the Padres). It also marked the 35th time in Rockies history that a rookie recorded a mult-homer game, with the last being Hunter Goodman on September 13, 2024 against the Chicago Cubs.
Do You Believe?
The Rockies entered the ninth inning down 9-3 and exited the game down 9-7 (don’t forget your taco’s tomorrow!). As mentioned in the previous section, the rally was kicked off with Crim’s second homer. Karros flied out, but Fernández — who homered in the seventh — and Ryan Ritter hit back-to-back doubles to run the score to 9-5.
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Moniak felt left out, and he drilled his 24th homer two batters later to score Ritter.
Moniak’s home run was his fifth in his last four ballgames, and it also made him the first Rockie since Ryan McMahon in 2023 to hit homers in four-straight games.
Up Next
The Rockies enter their final home series of the 2025 season against the Los Angeles Angels. Bradley Blalock (1-5, 9.00 ERA) will face off against Angels’ rookie left-hander Mitch Farris (1-1, 4.80 ERA), who made his MLB debut on September 2nd.
First pitch is at 6:10 ahead of fireworks. See you then!