It’s not often you get to see two Colorado natives face off on the mound against each other in a Major League Baseball game.<\/p>\n
That’s exactly what happened in Colorado’s series finale against the Blue Jays, where Denver native Kyle Freeland, a Thomas Jefferson High School alumnus, and Centennial native Kevin\u00a0Gausman, who attended Grandview High School in Aurora, faced off on the mound.<\/p>\n
Gausman\u00a0ultimately held the advantage in the matchup.<\/p>\n
He was incredible, to say the least. He struck out Rockies’ Hunter Goodman, Willi Castro, and Jordan Beck twice each.\u00a0Gausman\u00a0finished the game allowing no runs on two hits while striking out 10\u00a0batters in six innings of work, lowering his season ERA to 0.75.<\/p>\n
Gausman\u00a0continued his strong performance against Colorado, last\u00a0pitching\u00a0against them\u00a0on August 6, 2025. He pitched seven innings, giving up one run while striking out eight as Toronto defeated the Rockies 20-1 at Coors Field.<\/p>\n
Freeland, on the other hand,\u00a0pitched five\u00a0innings\u00a0in the game, allowing one run on five hits, with one walk and six strikeouts. He has been a solid starter for the Rockies so far this season, boasting a 2.89 ERA.<\/p>\n
Colorado’s newfound aggressive base running paid off in the\u00a0eighth\u00a0inning, beginning with Kyle Karros getting hit by a pitch. Manager Warren Schaeffer then\u00a0played the speed card\u00a0by inserting Jake McCarthy as a pinch runner.<\/p>\n
McCarthy\u00a0swiped second base and\u00a0scored on an RBI single by Troy Johnston, who then stole second base and advanced to third on a wild pitch\u00a0himself.\u00a0Colorado couldn’t bring Johnston in from third, but the team’s aggressiveness is showing positive results early on.<\/p>\n
Tyler Freeman, who was recently activated from the 10-day IL due to lower back inflammation, made a successful return in the 10th inning. The utility player delivered a go-ahead RBI single up the middle, driving in Brenton Doyle and giving the Rockies a 2-1 lead, which ultimately proved to be the final score after Jimmy\u00a0Herget\u00a0closed out the Blue Jays in the bottom half of the inning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s not often you get to see two Colorado natives face off on the mound against each other…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,167,52,4316,4,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-657778","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\/116332392399935542","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657778","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=657778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}