Perhaps the tombstone will read: RIP 2020 Rockies, due to RISP.
The Rockies lost, again, Wednesday afternoon at Coors Field due in large part to their continued inability to produce with runners in scoring position. Oakland, riding a strong six-inning start by Mike Fiers and its nearly invincible bullpen, won 3-1. It manufactured offense when the Rockies could not.
“We’ve seen that a lot the last month or so where we’ve had the opportunities to cash in or to get a big head, a clutch hit, and we just haven’t gotten it consistently,” Rockies manager Bud Black said. “It’s frustrating for the guys, and they’re coming back to the dugout angry, frustrated. But they’ve just got to keep going. And, hopefully, one of these days we can catch a little lightning.”
Colorado was 1-for-8 with runners in scoring position, left eight men on base and squandered prime opportunities in the fourth and fifth innings. Oakland was even worse, 1-for-11 with RISP, but it scratched out three runs.
With 12 games left and with the powerful Dodgers coming into town Thursday to begin a four-game series, the Rockies are in desperate straits. They fell to 22-26 as their playoff chances continue to dwindle.
The Rockies recently took two of the three games in Los Angeles, their first series win over the Dodgers in more than two years. That might provide some hope against a team that has won seven consecutive National League West titles and is honing in on an eighth.
“We’re going to treat each day separately,” catcher Tony Wolters said. “I’ll say it again. We are going to go pitch to pitch and inning by inning. We have to be in the moment and we have to throw the ball well and we have to hit the ball well.”
Lately, however, the Rockies have dramatically underachieved at Coors Field, where they are 11-15 and have gone seven consecutive series without a series win. Wednesday marked the fifth time in 26 home games in which they scored two runs or fewer runs.
In the fourth, the Rockies had runners at the corners with one out after singles by Nolan Arenado and Josh Fuentes, but David Dahl struck out and Ryan McMahon grounded out.
In the fifth, Colorado got a leadoff double from Wolters, but he was erased at third base trying to advance on Raimel Tapia’s grounder to first. Trevor Story singled advancing Tapia to second, but the potential rally fizzled when Fiers got Charlie Blackmon to pop out to third and coaxed a weak groundball back to the mound by Arenado.
Starter German Marquez pitched well enough for Colorado to win, allowing three runs over 6 2/3 innings. He gave up six hits, struck out six and walked four.
Oakland’s two-run sixth inning was the difference-maker. Tommy La Stella led off with a single, scooted to third on Matt Olson’s double and scored on Mark Canha’s sacrifice fly. Jake Lamb, the former Arizona Diamondback, drove in Olson with a sharp single to right.
The A’s took a 1-0 lead in the third but the Rockies countered with their own run in the bottom of the frame on consecutive singles by Ryan McMahon, Wolters and Tapia, whose blooper to shallow right was the Rockies’ only clutch hit.
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