{"id":659803,"date":"2026-04-02T23:53:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/659803\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T23:53:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:53:30","slug":"rockies-get-some-revenge-on-blue-jays-after-their-historic-beatdown-from-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/659803\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies get some revenge on Blue Jays after their historic beatdown from 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was three games in August of 2025 in which the Toronto Blue Jays rewrote the history books<\/a> by dismantling the Colorado Rockies. Just after the trade deadline, the Blue Jays were fully stocked and ready for a postseason run, while the Rockies cupboards were bare and they basically were trotting out a farm team. But that didn’t stop the Blue Jays from walloping them at Coors Field and setting two franchise records, they scored the most runs in a three-game series sweep with 45, and the most hits in a three-game series sweep with 63. <\/p>\n

But earlier this week, the Rockies got their revenge by smothering the Blue Jays bats, for the most part, over a three game series in Toronto, providing one of the early season upsets of the young MLB season. <\/p>\n

Rockies shock Blue Jays taking two of three in Toronto<\/p>\n

It wasn’t supposed to go this way for the Blue Jays, but that, as they say, is why they play the games on the field and not on paper. The Blue Jays were easily the favourites in this three game set, but the Rockies came out winning two of the three games, frustrating the Blue Jays’ bats for the majority of the series. <\/p>\n

In game one on Monday (Mar. 30), the Blue Jays lost Cody Ponce in the third inning. One of Toronto’s prominent free agent acquisitions this past offseason, Ponce was dealing through the first two innings, but injured himself chasing a ground ball in the third and could be gone for the rest of the season<\/a>. Still, when he left the game, the score was only 1-0, and Toronto tied the game in the bottom half of that inning. But then the Rockies opened up the flood gates with a seven-run sixth inning en-route to a 14-5 beat down. <\/p>\n

The Blue Jays came through with some timely hits in the second game of the series and prevailed 5-1. But in the finale, on Wednesday afternoon (Apr. 1) nobody was laughing as the Blue Jays went 1-for-8 with Runners in Scoring Position and left nine men on base in a 2-1 loss in ten innings. <\/p>\n

Combined with the stats from the first game, the Blue Jays offence was rather anemic, going 1-for-14 with RISP and leaving 15 men on base. While it wasn’t a beatdown like they handed the Rockies last August, it was like a death by a thousand cuts – or rather a thousand swing and misses. They managed 14 hits in those two games, and many of them were hard hits, but
again, they couldn’t come up with the key hits they needed and also racked up 18 combined strikeouts in those games.<\/p>\n

The worst part is likely having to sit with the sting of losing a one-run game in extras at home to drop the series. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had a chance to play the hero<\/a> in the Wednesday matinee, but with a runner on third, he smoked a ball 108.3 mph to center field and unfortunately it was right at the Rockies’ Brenton Doyle to end the game. <\/p>\n

It’s a tough break, but that’s the way baseball goes sometimes, and if there is a silver lining it’s that the Blue Jays still did a lot of the little things the right way in the series<\/a> and they’ll look to keep doing that this weekend in Chicago against the White Sox before gearing up for their first really big test with the LA Dodgers coming to town on Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was three games in August of 2025 in which the Toronto Blue Jays rewrote the history books…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,2554,4,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-659803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blue-jays","10":"tag-bluejays","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","14":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116337810289449779","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659803","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=659803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}