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Colorado Rockies<\/a> (42-65, fifth in the NL West) vs. San Diego Padres<\/a> (53-53, third in the NL West)<\/p>\n

San Diego; Tuesday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rockies: Michael Lorenzen<\/a> (3-9, 6.53 ERA, 1.79 WHIP, 78 strikeouts); Padres: Michael King (6-7, 3.24 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 103 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Padres -190, Rockies +154; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The San Diego Padres host the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday to open a two-game series.<\/p>\n

San Diego has a 53-53 record overall and a 27-24 record at home. The Padres have gone 32-17 in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

Colorado has a 42-65 record overall and an 18-36 record on the road. Rockies hitters have a collective .324 on-base percentage, the seventh-ranked percentage in the NL.<\/p>\n

The matchup Tuesday is the eighth meeting between these teams this season. The Padres have a 6-1 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jackson Merrill<\/a> has 17 doubles, a triple and 15 home runs for the Padres. Ty France is 16 for 42 with four doubles and five home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

T.J. Rumfield<\/a> has 22 doubles, two triples and 13 home runs for the Rockies. Jake McCarthy<\/a> is 12 for 43 with three doubles, a triple, a home run and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Padres: 5-5, .282 batting average, 3.76 ERA, outscored opponents by 22 runs<\/p>\n

Rockies: 3-7, .230 batting average, 6.41 ERA, outscored by 23 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Padres: Lucas Giolito: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jeremiah Estrada: 15-Day IL (knee), Miguel Andujar<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Nick Pivetta: 60-Day IL (elbow), Samad Taylor<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Joe Musgrove: 60-Day IL (elbow), David Morgan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Jason Adam: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Ramon Laureano<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Bryan Hoeing: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Rockies: Brenton Doyle<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), McCade Brown<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jeff Criswell<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Jaden Hill<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Jose Quintana: 60-Day IL (elbow), Blas Castano<\/a>: 15-Day IL (pectoral), Chase Dollander: 60-Day IL (elbow), Kris Bryant: 60-Day IL (back), Welinton Herrera<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Pierson Ohl: 60-Day IL (elbow), RJ Petit: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado Rockies (42-65, fifth in the NL West) vs. San Diego Padres (53-53, third in the NL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,15053,1004,167,52,4316,784,75686,871,741,3917,7904,19,42377,371,4808,4,1495,168,1335,18,78580,56859],"class_list":["post-763529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-rockies","tag-baseball","tag-blas-castano","tag-brenton-doyle","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-coloradorockies","tag-david-morgan","tag-event_preview","tag-jackson-merrill","tag-jaden-hill","tag-jake-mccarthy","tag-jeff-criswell","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mccade-brown","tag-michael-lorenzen","tag-miguel-andujar","tag-mlb","tag-ramon-laureano","tag-rockies","tag-samad-taylor","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-tj-rumfield","tag-welinton-herrera"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116996765341820400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763529","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=763529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}