Colorado Rockies morning after: Something that has been increasingly rare…a win

For the first time in well over a week, the Colorado Rockies have actually won a game!

On Friday night, the Colorado Rockies won in San Diego by a score of 3-2 to break their nine game losing streak. The win was recorded by Tim Melville, who recorded eight strikeouts, a career high, in 5 2/3 innings while allowing only two runs, has been the Rockies *only* saving grace on the pitching front in this stretch of the worst baseball in franchise history.

In fact, in their last 30 games (including Friday), the Rockies are 8-22. Games started by Tim Melville and games facing the Miami Marlins account for six of those eight victories.

The Rockies bullpen pitched well as well as James Pazos, DJ Johnson, Carlos Estevez, and Jairo Diaz combined to go 3 1/3 innings while not allowing a base hit and two walks (both issued by Johnson). Diaz also notched his first career MLB save, after recording 43 saves in the minor leagues.

That performance by the pitching staff in general was a welcome sight considering the last few weeks and really, the entire season that the Rockies have had.

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In their previous 29 games before Friday (since August 6), the Rockies had a team ERA of 6.82, which caused the overall team ERA on the season to balloon from 5.41 to 5.69.

That would be bad enough to be the second worst mark in franchise history, only to the 1999 Rockies, who pitched in a non-humidor Coors Field in the highest run scoring year in MLB history in the steroid era with a 6.01 ERA.

Offensively, the Rockies got two hits from Trevor Story and one hit a piece from Charlie Blackmon, Nolan Arenado, Ryan McMahon, Dom Nunez, and Garrett Hampson (who was a pinch-hitter). The Rockies scored all three of their runs in the first two innings on Blackmon’s hit (a RBI single), a RBI groundout by McMahon, and a RBI single from Story.

The Rockies will try to make it two in a row today with Jeff Hoffman on the mound, who pitched well in his last time on the mound against the Pirates when he allowed only two runs in five innings.

If they are successful in doing so, the Rockies will have won two in a row for the first time since they faced they won four in a row with a win against the Arizona Diamondbacks and a three-game sweep of the Miami Marlins from August 14 through August 18.