The wrong way: Rockies' pitching struggles in losses to the Giants, Angels

The Colorado Rockies are mired in their first losing streak of 2025. Fortunately for them, it’s still March.

On Monday afternoon, the Rockies lost their third and fourth straight Cactus League games as they dropped an 8-2 outing to the San Francisco Giants and a 12-3 decision to the Los Angels Angels on split squad day.

On a day when star shortstop Ezequiel Tovar hit his first homerun of the spring, and Michael Toglia stayed hot against the Angels, the story was again the starting pitching. 

After such a promising start to the spring, Colorado pitchers have surrendered eight runs in three straight games. Against the Giants, German Marquez gave up five hits and two runs as the Rockies fell behind 2-0 early.

Colorado cut the lead to 4-2, but, the Rockies’ bulllpen faltered yet again. Colorado relievers surrendered four more runs after Austin Nola drove in Jacob Stallings to cut the Giant’s lead. 

After Marquez’ start, the Rockies alllowed seven more hits and they walked six batters. 

Colorado pitching had a team ERA of 3.42 entering last weekend, but that has now ballooned to 4.72 after the three straight losses. To be fair, the Rockies’ offense hasn’t produced many runs in the losing streak either, but Tovar homered and Brenton Doyle had another great all-around game, so, the consensus is, the hitting will be fine.

No, Monday was another tough day for Colorado pitching, especially for Marquez, who’s trying to claw his way back from injury to be one of Colorado’s starters this season. The Coorado bullpen also gave up nine runs in the last five innings against the Angels, to, in both locations, it just was another tough day on the mound.

The Rockies (11-7) will get a chance to redeem themselves on Tuesday when they’re in Goodyear for a game against the Cincinnati Reds. The first pitch is set for 2:05 p.m.