MIAMI \u2014 The woeful Colorado Rockies have ended their ignominious, record-setting MLB streak of 22 consecutive series losses, which dated to last season.<\/p>\n
A nervy 3-2 victory at Miami, highlighted by Hunter Goodman\u2019s third home run in two games, gave Colorado two straight victories over the Marlins to ensure the Rockies would leave town with their first series victory since taking two of three games from Arizona in Denver in mid-September.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThat was big-time for the boys, to get that first series win,\u201d Rockies interim manager Warren Schaeffer said. \u201cWho would\u2019ve known it wouldn\u2019t come until June. But the time is now. I\u2019m happy for them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Colorado, a major league-worst 11-50, won consecutive games for just the second time this year after beating Atlanta on April 30 and San Francisco the next day. They now go for a series sweep against the Marlins.<\/p>\n
Goodman called the Rockies\u2019 recent form \u201cmore encouraging than discouraging.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had some rough games in the first part of the year, and being able to just be in ballgames and have a chance to win is always better than just not being in it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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Goodman\u2019s teammates seemed unsurprised by his pivotal role in securing the Rockies\u2019 first series win of the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s just raking, and when he\u2019s hot, he\u2019s one of the best hitters in the game,\u201d centerfielder Brenton Doyle told Rockies.tv. \u201cI hope he keeps it up. He\u2019s one of my good buddies and that was awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rockies reliever Seth Halvorsen earned his third save, but only after Heriberto Hern\u00e1ndez drove his 1-1 pitch about 400 feet to left center, where Doyle made a game-ending, running catch at the wall.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going to lie; off the bat, I thought that was a homer,\u201d Schaeffer said. \u201cBut it wasn\u2019t, so it\u2019s all good. It\u2019s the best having (Doyle) in center field.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Excluding one-game series, the Rockies are the fourth team since MLB expansion in 1961 to go 18 series before recording their first series win in a season. The 1987 Padres, 1969 Montreal Expos and 1962 Washington Senators all won their first series of those seasons in their 19th series.<\/p>\n
Before the Rockies arrived in Miami, they\u2019d gone 3-28 on the road \u2014 the worst road mark at that point of season in more than a century \u2014 and had not won back-to-back road games since last Sept. 5-6.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s nice to get a couple wins. It\u2019s good to get that first series win,\u201d Schaeffer said. \u201cNow we just move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 The woeful Colorado Rockies have ended their ignominious, record-setting MLB streak of 22 consecutive series losses,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[146,191,5,1004,19599,52,19550,2092,1816,4,43,378,13166,1116,1605,9130],"class_list":{"0":"post-79234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-brenton-doyle","12":"tag-chance-to-win","13":"tag-colorado-rockies","14":"tag-consecutive-series","15":"tag-hunter-goodman","16":"tag-marlins","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-padres","19":"tag-san-francisco","20":"tag-series-sweep","21":"tag-seth-halvorsen","22":"tag-the-rockies","23":"tag-warren-schaeffer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114626384751263214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79234","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=79234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}