Rockies’ three-game winning streak ends with loss to Padres in series opener at Coors Field

Dur­ing the recent 2–12 skid that brought the Rock­ies back down to earth, their most-com­mon lament went some­thing like this: “When we pitch well, we don’t hit. When we hit, we don’t pitch well.”

Fri­day night at Coors Field, they did nei­ther well in a 10–4 loss to the streak­ing San Diego Padres, who won for the ninth time in their last 11 games to improve to 20–14.

Colorado’s three-game win­ning streak screeched to a halt and they are back to .500 with a 16–16 record.

Left-han­der Kyle Free­land, hereto­fore Colorado’s most con­sis­tent pitch­er, who entered the game with a 2.87 ERA, didn’t make it out of the fifth inning. And while Col­orado scored four runs in the first inning off right-han­der Zach Davies, the offense went dor­mant after that.

“Kyle hung in there tonight, but it wasn’t, prob­a­bly, as crisp as we have seen him,” man­ag­er Bud Black said.

Asked if he’s frus­trat­ed by an offense that con­tin­ues to sput­ter, Black said: “We’ve talked about that a lit­tle bit over these first 32 games. I’ve said that we real­ly haven’t clicked on all cylinders.

“We’ve had some big indi­vid­ual per­for­mances, but as a group, there’s been that big hit that’s been lack­ing, dur­ing cer­tain times, in cer­tain games that (could) swing the momen­tum and change the game. I think it’s com­ing, it just hasn’t come so far, and not often enough.”

The Padres, who belt­ed out 19 hits, ganged up on reliev­ers Jeff Hoff­man and Phillip Diehl in the deci­sive four-run sixth. Ty France’s three-run dou­ble off Diehl iced the game.

The dou­ble from France with two outs should come as no sur­prise. San Diego entered the game with 78 runs scored with two outs, the most in the majors. Also, San Diego was 6‑for-13 with run­ners in scor­ing posi­tion. Again, no sur­prise. The Padres entered the game with a .303 aver­age with RISP, best in the Nation­al League.

Rock­ie killer Wil Myers hit 4‑for‑5 with two dou­bles and two RBIs and his four hits tied his career-high. Three of his six four-hit games have come at Coors Field, where, in 43 career games, he’s hit .365 (62-for-170) with 10 home runs, 16 dou­bles, three triples and 35 RBIs.

The Rock­ies, on the oth­er hand, were lim­it­ed to nine hits and were 1‑for‑6 with run­ners in scor­ing position.

Free­land had turned in qual­i­ty starts in all six of his out­ings pri­or to Friday’s game, but the Padres’ relent­less offense turned it into a rough night for the lefty. The 11 hits off Free­land — in just 4 1/3 innings — tied his career-high for hits allowed. He also gave up 11 on Sept. 28, 2018 vs. Wash­ing­ton over six innings.

“I def­i­nite­ly wasn’t as sharp as I want­ed to be tonight,” Free­land said. “I didn’t have a very good feel for my change­up. I felt, a lot of times like I was try­ing to push it to the zone. I couldn’t get it off my fin­ger­tips and I couldn’t get it down in the zone very con­sis­tent­ly. And my fast­ball wasn’t as pin­point as I would like it.”

Free­land admit­ted that he caught some breaks in the first three innings, then said, “In the fourth and fifth innings I start­ed leav­ing balls over the plate.”

San Diego chased Free­land from the game with a three-run fifth to tie the game, 4–4. The big blows were RBI dou­bles by Eric Hos­mer and Myers, as well as a bloop sin­gle to right by France, who hit 3‑for‑4.

The Padres had already put Free­land against the ropes in the fourth. With one run already in, the bases full, just one out and the top of the order com­ing up, Free­land need­ed to find a way out. The lefty took a few deep breaths then struck out Trent Gris­han with a 2–2 slid­er. Then he coaxed the dan­ger­ous Fer­nan­do Tatis Jr. to pop out to sec­ond to end the inning.

Things looked rosy for Col­orado in the first inning.

When Hos­mer dropped the ball on a throw to first base, scut­tling what would have been an inning-end­ing dou­ble play, the Rock­ies took advan­tage. Daniel Mur­phy drew a walk and then Matt Kemp launched a three-run homer into the for­est beyond the cen­ter-field wall. The ball trav­eled 468 feet, the longest of his career in the Stat­cast era (since 2015) and tied the Yan­kees’ Aaron Judge for the fourth-longest in MLB this season.

But it wasn’t near­ly enough for the Rock­ies, who relin­quished a 4–0 lead, their largest blown lead of the sea­son. It marked Colorado’s third game against the Padres over the last two sea­sons in which they blew a lead of four or more runs. It also hap­pened June 14 and 16 of last season.

 

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