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It's too bad the Monforts don't seem to care about winning. Coors Field is a great baseball stadium.
Spot on with both sentences! The Monforts only care about filling the standings with people who drink lots of beer. I will not live long enough to see them in another world series, I'm beginning to think I might never see them have a winning season ever again as well!
Welp, the penny ante Rockies lost my money today. They're shipping possibly the best defensive third baseman in MLB history off to the Cardinals, eating $50 million of his salary, and not even getting a Top 5 prospect in return. Garbage move by a garbage franchise. Trevor Story is as good as gone, too.
Once a fan of the Rockies. After Arenado and then not even a QO to Story, they're dead to me.
Setting up to be another fantastic trade deadline for the Rockies. </sarc>
The only move they've made so far - extending a 37-year-old reliever when they're 12 games below .500. Meanwhile the Dodgers have added Joey Gallo, and the Padres got Juan Soto AND Josh Bell from the Nats.
Padres are shipping Eric Hosmer to the Red Sox and likely eating the rest of his $46 million salary - BUT see above. That's still MUCH better than the Rockies sending Nolan and $50 million to the Cards for Austin Gomber, Elehuris Montero, and 3 guys who haven't made it past Double-A.
Rockies open the 2023 with a 7-2 victory over the Padres:
"Rockies 7 @ Padres 2.
Kris Bryant had a 1 out double in the 1st, Charlie Blackmon had a single to move Bryant to 3rd, a wild pitch from Blake Snell moved Blackman to second, and a C.J. Cron single scored Bryant before Elehuris Montero struck out and Ryan McMahon grounded out. Trent Grisham lead off the bottom half with a double, went to 3rd on a Juan Soto ground out, and scored on a Manny Machado sac fly. Xander Bogaerts had a double in his first Padres at bat, went to 3rd on a balk, but Jake Cronenworth ended the inning with a strikeout. Bryant started the 3rd reaching on a Ha-Seong Kim error, a Blackmon double moved Bryant but Snell struck out Cron, Montero, and McMahon to end the inning. Machado lead off the bottom of the 4th with a single, a Bogaerts double moved Machado to 3rd, Machado was erased at home on a Cronenworth fielders choice, Matt Carpenter reached on an error which allowed Bogaerts to score to go up 2-1, but Austin Nola ended the inning with a double play. Yonathan Daza started the 5th with a single, 2 batters later Blackmon had a single, a wild pitch moved runners to second and 3rd, and Cron put the Rockies on top 4-2 with his first home run of the year. Elias Diaz starts the 6th with a single, Ezequiel Tovar had a 1 out single, Daza would strike out, but Bryant made it 5-2 with a 2 out RBI single before Blackmon ended the inning with a fly out. Bogaerts had a 2 out single in the bottom half, Cronenworth reached on catchers interference, but Carpenter ended the inning with a fly out. Cron & Montero had back-to-back home runs to start the 7th, McMahon followed with a double and then stole 3rd, but Diaz, and Harold Castro struck out and the inning ended on a Tovar ground out. Nola & Kim started the bottom half with back to back singles, but David Dahl & Grisham struck out, and Soto ended the inning with a ground out. Bryant had a 1 out double in the 8th, and 2 batters later got thrown out at home on a Cron double. Montero lead off the 9th with a single, 3 batters later Castro singled to put runners on first & second, but Tovar ended the inning with a force out. Nola walked with 1 out, moved to second a Kim ground out, but got left there when the game ended on a Dahl fly out. Snell (0-1) allows 3 runs on 6 hits with 1 walk and 9 strikeouts in 4.1. German Marquez (1-0) allows 2 runs on 5 hits with 0 walks and 5 strikeouts in 6 innings.
Game 2 of the series takes place on Friday evening. Kyle Freeland (9-11, 4.53 last year) starts for the Rockies while the Padres will give the ball to Nick Martinez (4-4, 3.47 in ’22) with game time slated for 9:40. In other West action this evening the Giants were shut out by the Yankees 5-0, and the Dodgers beat the D’backs 8-2. Dodgers & Rockies are atop the division at 1-0, while the Giants, D’Backs, and Padres are all 2-1."
Kris Bryant singled with 1 out in the first, Charlie Blackmon reached on an infield single, C.J. Cron walked to load the bases, a Ryan McMahon force out scored Bryant and put the Rockies up 1-0 but had Xander Bogaerts not dropped the transfer it could have been an inning-ending double play, Elehuris Montero followed with an RBI single before Elias Diaz struck out to end the inning. Ha-Seong Kim had a 2 out double in the second, but Trent Grisham ended the inning with a strike out. Ezequiel Torvar had a leadoff single in the 5th, 2 batters later Blackmon would hit his first home run of the year and first since last July to give the Rockies a 4-0 lead and complete their scoring on the night. Kim had a 1 out double in the 5th, but Grisham flied out and Jose Azocar grounded out. Yonathan Daza had a 2 out single in the 7th, stole second, but Bryant ended the inning with a strike out. Blackmon was hit by a pitch to start the 8th, Cron followed with a single, McMahon grounded into the very rarely seen 2-5-3 double play to move Cron to second, Montero reached on an infield single moving Montero to 3rd before Diaz struck out to end the frame. Kim walked and Grisham singled to start the Padres 8th, an Azocar sac bunt moved the runners up to 2nd & 3rd, Bogaerts scored Kim on a sac fly, but Juan Soto was called out on strikes to end it. Daza had a 2 out single in the 9th, Bryant followed with a walk before Blackmon struck out to end the inning. Manny Machado started the 9th with an infield single, with 2 outs went to second on catchers indifference, but Jake Cronenworth ended the inning and game with a strikeout. Kyle Freeland (1-0) had 1 walk, 1 strikeout and 3 hits allowed in 6 scoreless innings, and Pierce Johnson (1st save) had 2 strikeouts and 1 hit in a scoreless 9th inning, registering his first career save against his former team. Nick Martinez (0-1) allowed 4 runs on 6 hits (1 home run) with 2 walks and 5 strikeouts in 7 innings.
Game 3 of the series is on Saturday. Jose Urena (3-8, 5.01 with the Brewers & Rockies last year) starts for the Rockies, while the Pads give the ball to Michael Wacha (11-2, 3.32 with Boston last year) with game time slated for 8:40. The Giants had the day off, and the D’Backs beat the Dodgers in other West action on Friday, so the Rockies go into first by themselves at 2-0, D;Backs and Dodgers are 1 game back at 1-1, Giants are 1.5 back at 0-1, and the Padres are 2 back at 0-2."
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I'm predicting another woeful season of Rockies baseball. I realize that's quite the stretch. They won't crack 100 Ls this year. 90-95 losses will be doable with this roster and the Monfort family brain trust running the show.
Gonna hopefully see a lot of up-and-coming youngsters who, if they're successful, will get tired of playing for this sad sack organization in 5-7 years and finish out their careers somewhere else.
I'm predicting another woeful season of Rockies baseball. I realize that's quite the stretch. They won't crack 100 Ls this year. 90-95 losses will be doable with this roster and the Monfort family brain trust running the show.
Gonna hopefully see a lot of up-and-coming youngsters who, if they're successful, will get tired of playing for this sad sack organization in 5-7 years and finish out their careers somewhere else.
Your post was prescient -- the bottom of the 3rd inning tonight the D-backs batted around - twice! Eighteen batters, scored 14 runs, setting D-backs records for most runs on opening day and most runs scored in one inning. Absolute batting practice.
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Your post was prescient -- the bottom of the 3rd inning tonight the D-backs batted around - twice! Eighteen batters, scored 14 runs, setting D-backs records for most runs on opening day and most runs scored in one inning. Absolute batting practice.
What a way to start the season.16-1.
Wait till next year!
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Wait till next year!