{"id":32827,"date":"2025-05-17T02:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T02:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/32827\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T02:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T02:48:13","slug":"rockies-activate-ezequiel-tovar-from-il-in-flurry-of-moves-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/32827\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies activate Ezequiel Tovar from IL in flurry of moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/col\/colorado-rockies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Rockies<\/a> activated Gold Glove shortstop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4905919\/ezequiel-tovar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ezequiel Tovar<\/a> from the 10-day injured list prior to Friday night&#8217;s road game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/ari\/arizona-diamondbacks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tovar, 23, has been sidelined with a left hip contusion and last played for Colorado on April 15.<\/p>\n<p>In 16 games this season, Tovar is batting .212 with four doubles, a triple and four RBIs. In four seasons with Colorado, he is a career .258 hitter with 42 home runs and 157 RBIs in 335 games, and was named the National League&#8217;s Gold Glove Award winner at shortstop last season.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;alsosee&gt;<\/p>\n<p>The Rockies also activated second baseman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40958\/tyler-freeman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Freeman<\/a> (oblique) and shortstop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/42430\/aaron-schunk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Schunk<\/a> (groin) from the IL. Freeman is 1-for-11 (.091) in seven games this season while Schunk is 5-for-20 (.250) in seven games.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado also promoted left-hander <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4621424\/carson-palmquist\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carson Palmquist<\/a> from Triple-A Albuquerque to start Friday&#8217;s game. Palmquist, 24, will be making his major league debut after going 2-2 with a 3.82 ERA in seven Triple-A starts this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockies also optioned outfielder <a data-player-guid=\"d2287898-ce6e-d324-a83e-d157324516f5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41989\/sean-bouchard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Bouchard<\/a> (.169) and right-hander Anthony Molina (one scoreless appearance) to Albuquerque and designated shortstop <a data-player-guid=\"a81e604e-1108-1533-a008-701ec7f077b9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40572\/alan-trejo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Trejo<\/a> (.175) and second baseman <a data-player-guid=\"bfc8371e-2c47-38da-0767-320bc4ca7ff2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41187\/owen-miller\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Owen Miller<\/a> (.143) for assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Rockies activated Gold Glove shortstop Ezequiel Tovar from the 10-day injured list prior to Friday night&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,167,52,4316,4,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-32827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-rockies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-rockies","11":"tag-coloradorockies","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-rockies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114520897226403838","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}