Photo by Pamela Smith/Getty Images Colorado Rockies weekend discussion thread for May 4-5, 2024 It’s pretty clear that the 8-23 Colorado Rockies are not a good baseball team. However, last night, they got a rare road win, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2. Plus, they stopped an historic skid. The streak is over: The Colorado Rockies, for the first time this season, never trailed in a game, winning. 3-2 over the Pittsburgh Pirates. The streak ends after an MLB record 31 games. — Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) May 4, 2024 Add to that, Cal Quantrill had a good game — as in the third best sta ..read more

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports Will a team meeting help the Rockies end their 5-game losing streak? When the Rockies started the series with the Astros, both teams had seven wins. When Colorado began the series with the Marlins, the Rockies had one more win than 6-24 Miami. Flashforward six days and Houston has 11 wins, Miami has nine and Colorado still has seven. The Rockies are now riding a five-game losing streak, which prompted a team meeting after the latest loss to Miami on Thursday. Hopefully, the meeting can inspire a change and get the team past the seven-win mark as the Rockies open up a ..read more

Jim Rassol-USA TODAY Sports Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, May 3, 2024. As the season of breaking all the wrong records continues, it’s time to track a new stat for the Colorado Rockies: BBMs — boneheaded baserunning mistakes. On Thursday, as the Rockies set a franchise record for trailing in 31 straight games, which also happens to be all of their 2024 games, the Rockies committed two BBMs. The most costly one happened in the ninth inning when Brendan Rodgers and Jordan Beck led off with back-to-back singles. Jake Cave then bunted to pitcher Anthony Maldonado, who sent an errant ..read more

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images The Rockies are expected to summon a pitching prospect from Double-A Hartford for the weekend, With right-handed reliever Justin Lawrence set to go on the paternity list prior to the series against the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Colorado Rockies will need a reinforcement for their bullpen. In news originally broken by Blake Street Banter, right-handed pitching prospect Angel Chivilli will be the one to take Lawrence’s spot on the roster while he welcomes his Leónito de Panama. Chivilli was signed out of the Dominican Republic in 2018 for $20 ..read more

Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports Rockies aim to avoid a sweep by the Marlins The offense has fallen flat for the Colorado Rockies since they scored five runs on six hits in game one of the series against the Miami Marlins. Since then, they have scored just two runs and are desperately trying to find some resemblance of offense against the Marlins after losing 4-1 yesterday. Peter Lambert gets the start on the mound for the first time since the doubleheader at home against the Seattle Mariners where he gave up six runs on six hits in three innings of work. He last appeared on April 25 against the Sa ..read more

Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, May 2, 2024 The Colorado Rockies are an unmitigated disaster. Tuesday’s meltdown against the Miami Marlins was the latest testament to that fact, turning the best pitching performance of the season into the worst loss of the season (so far). They dropped another one last night and are now the only team in baseball not to win a series or consecutive games this season. The fiasco of a game on Tuesday also marked the first big league appearance for OF prospect Jordan Beck. It was an inauspicious start to the touted pr ..read more

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images The Rockies look to rebound from Tuesday’s collapse After an unfortunate collapse that saw the Colorado Rockies surrender five runs in the ninth inning and lose in extra innings on Tuesday, they look to turn the page on a new day and rebound against the Miami Marlins. They will send out Dakota Hudson (0-4, 6.57 ERA) who is looking to right the ship after struggles in his past two starts. Over his last 7 1⁄3 innings over two starts, Hudson has given up 10 runs on 13 hits and has issued nine walks against five strikeouts. Thanks to Ryan Feltner’s eight inni ..read more

Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, May 1, 2024 The Colorado Rockies are broken. On Tuesday night we saw them become the first team in the modern era (dating back to 1900) to trail in 29 consecutive games to begin the year, breaking a record held by the 1910 St. Louis Browns. They finished with a record of 7-22 in their first month of games with 19 of those losses coming in April alone. We saw the Rockies blow a five-run lead in the ninth inning for just the third time in franchise history, ultimately losing a game, in which they were leading 5-0 t ..read more

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images A new series starts tonight, and Jordan Beck will make his MLB debut! After being swept by the Houston Astros in Mexico City over the weekend, the Colorado Rockies will look to start fresh in Miami against the Marlins. That also means with some fresh faces on the roster. The Rockies announced today that they have selected the contract of outfielder Jordan Beck (No. 6 PuRP). In the corresponding moves, they placed Nolan Jones on the 10-day IL with a lower back strain (retroactive to April 29) and transferred LHP Lucas Gilbreath to the 60-day IL after he su ..read more

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 Last year, the Colorado Rockies signed 66-year-old manager Bud Black to a one-year contract extension that covers the 2024 season. Black originally signed with the team in 2017 on a three-year deal with a mutual option for 2020. In 2019, he signed a three-year extension for 2020-2022, and then signed one-year extensions in 2022 and 2023. At the beginning of the 2024 season, there was talk of another contract extension, but there hasn’t been much more reported on that. Black’s tenure has had its ..read more