The Colorado Rockies have been taking a lot of heat this season, mostly due to the recent championship win the Denver Nuggets brought home earlier this month. The Nuggets took 47 years to finally bring home the Larry O’Brien trophy but they have now joined the elite group of professional teams in the City of Denver to win a championship.
In 2007 a Troy Tulowitzki-led Colorado Rockies stunned Major League baseball by accomplishing the most impressive run in club history, when they made it to the World Series with the Boston Red Sox only to get swept four games to none. Since then the Rockies have put together some mediocre teams with some homegrown players that instantly became hometown favorites. Unfortunately those homegrown heroes always seem to follow Tulowitzki’s path by leaving Coors Field for greener pastors.
This season hasn’t been much better for the Rockies sitting in last place in the National League West, a whopping 16.5 games behind the division leading Arizona Diamondbacks. Over the weekend the Rockies pitching faced two of the leagues juggernauts in Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout. Game one went to Rockies after scoring four runs in the eighth after trailing 4-3 in the seventh.
Game two was when the wheels fell off for Colorado as the Rockies bullpen gave up 13 runs in the third inning plus and additional 8 in the fourth. Colorado’s loss of 25-1 marked their biggest loss in club history and immediately became the butt of jokes across the MLB universe.
Colorado saved face by defeating the Angels 4-3 in game three to at least take the series after their previously embarrassing performance. Despite Colorado’s dismal performance in game two, fans came out in droves for game three a sure sign of things to remain the same.
The Rockies are hosting the NL West third place L.A. Dodgers this week at Coors Field. The Dodgers are currently 13 games ahead of the Rockies and Colorado has a chance to cut into that lead.
While Colorado struggles to remain competitive the fans remain loyal even while the team sets records for most runs given up in a game. So until fans start to show disdain for the continued submediocre play from this ball-club, things will continue as planned for Dick Monfort and family.
In other sports, the Denver Nuggets practically stole Julian Strawther, the Gonzaga star guard after he fell to number 29, right into the lap of the Nuggets. The Nuggets second and third picks were guard, Jalen Pickett from Penn State (32nd pick), and Clemson forward Hunter Tyson.
The Colorado Rapids are looking forward to July after a tie with San Jose in early June and a loss to Orlando City (0-2) along with the postponement of their match with the St. Louis City SC last weekend. Colorado will face the L.A. Galaxy who is one point ahead of the Rapids who are in last place in the Western Conference.
