From no-no to no dice.
Rockies right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano pitched five innings of no-hit ball on Monday afternoon at Coors Field, but the Mets solved him in the sixth inning and came away with a 4-2 victory.
The Rockies were in a great place when they swept the Mets in three games in Queens late last month, but now they are in a hard place after losing five straight games, including four in a row at home.
The Rockies have been outscored 32-15 on their current homestand, and with a 14-22 record, they are eight games below .500 for the first time this season.
On Monday, the Rockies’ fate changed as quickly as Colorado’s fickle May weather. Sugano was in nearly total control for the first five innings. He did issue a leadoff walk to Carson Benge in the third, but Benge was quickly erased when Francisco Alvarez grounded into a double play.
“I thought ‘Tomo’ was fantastic today,” manager Warren Schaeffer said. “He was super efficient, and it’s what he’s been doing all year.”
But New York solved Sugano in a four-run sixth inning that decided the ballgame. Benge led off with a no-doubt, 436-foot homer to right to make it 1-0. Back-to-back doubles by Francisco Alvarez and Luis Torrens made it 2-0. Juan Soto coaxed a walk out of Sugano, and Mark Vientos ripped a two-run single off Jaden Hill to make it 4-0.
“In the sixth inning, I just left up a couple of pitches, and I missed locations,” Sugano said, using Yuto Sakurai as his interpreter. “Other than that, I pitched pretty good.”
Sugano is now 3-1 with a 3.41 ERA. His performance on Monday was Colorado’s longest no-hit bid at Coors Field since Kyle Freeland’s 5 1/3 no-hit innings on June 23, 2024, vs. Washington.
New York Mets relief pitcher David Peterson works against the Colorado Rockies in the fourth inning of a baseball game Monday, May 4, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Colorado actually out-hit the Mets, 5-4, but didn’t score a run until they finally busted through against lefty David Peterson, making his third relief appearance of the season. The Denver native and Regis Jesuit High School graduate dominated Colorado for his first three innings and struck out five of six hitters he faced in the fifth and sixth innings.
The Rockies finally got on the scoreboard with two runs in the seventh, combining Willi Castro’s two-out single, an RBI triple into the right-field corner by Jordan Beck, and a run-scoring single by Kyle Karros.
Pitching probables
Tuesday: Mets RHP Freddy Peralta (1-3, 3.52 ERA) at Rockies RHP Michael Lorenzen (2-3, 6.09), 6:40 p.m.
Wednesday: Mets RHP Christian Scott (0-0, 4.26) at Rockies LHP Jose Quintana (1-2, 4.07), 1:10 p.m.
Thursday: Off day
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