By: Brandon Rivera
The Colorado Rockies ended strong before the All-Star break even passing the Arizona Diamondbacks in the process.
The Rockies won three games to one over the Diamondbacks in the second week of July before kicking off another four-game series with divisional opponents the San Diego Padres where the Rockies managed to win three games to one over the second place National League (NL) West Padres.
To closeout before the All-Star game the Rockies beat the third place NL Central Pittsburgh Pirates two games to one over the weekend. Though still 18.5 games behind the division leading L.A. Dodgers, the Rockies have moved to within 6 games of the third place San Francisco Giants.
The Rockies return to play Friday, July 22, when they head to Milwaukee to face the Brewers in a four-game series.
In the meantime
On Monday night, the MLB All-Star week kicked off in L.A. with the Home Run Derby. Right Fielder Juan Soto won the 2022 MLB Home Run Derby after a battle with the rookie Center Fielder from the Seattle Mariners, Julio Rodriguez. Juan Soto blasted 19 homers to Rodriguez’ 18 in the final round.
The 2022 All-Star game was scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday night (results not available at the time of this writing).
Midway through 2022, the NFL release the top jersey sales with Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson leading the top ten ahead of (#2) Buffalo Bills – Josh Allen, (#3) Las Vegas Raiders – Davante Adams, (#4) Pittsburgh Steelers – Kenny Pickett, and (#5) Tampa Bay – Tom Brady.
The offseason has been a busy one for the newly acquired Denver Broncos quarterback who has posted hype videos of his workout routines while in Monaco, the French Riviera, and the U.K. On Sunday Wilson posted another hype video with flashes of his workout routine and his new cleats with an etched message for Bronco fans, “fourth coming soon.”
Wilson has all of his wide receivers out at his San Diego home for a pre-training camp before the regular training camp that returns on Monday August 8th.
The Colorado Avalanche continue to celebrate their win of Lord Stanley with Colorado Avalanche defenseman Jack Johnson who visited a Dublin Ohio ice cream shop with the Cup and his kids just to eat ice cream out of the cup.
In other sports the Colorado Rapids have only lost one game in July but also have two ties with the Real Salt Lake and Orlando City, however they did manage to get a big win over the L.A. Galaxy 2-0 on Saturday at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park.
The Rapids are back on the field this Saturday to face the Seattle Sounders at Lumen Field in Seattle at 8 p.m.
