Over the weekend, the Colorado Rockies didn't play well enough as the Cleveland Guardians swept a three-game series.
Coming into this six-game homestand, the Colorado Rockies were looking to stay somewhat hot after picking up some momentum on their last road trip.
Whatever they had going on coming back to Coors Field to face the Los Angeles Dodgers and Cleveland Guardians simply didn't show up. Colorado has now lost six straight games after the Guardians pulled off a 7-2 win on a hot Sunday afternoon.
That comes on the heels of Cleveland's 4-3 win on Saturday night.
Sugano didn't have it together
Ultimately, the game on Sunday was decided by the Rockies' bad pitching. Heck, even Tomoyuki Sugano suffered under a heavy weight. Sugano only worked three innings, giving up nine hits, five earned runs, walked one, and struck out two. He now has a 4.96 ERA and a 1.32 WHIP.
Rockies reliever Mark Manfredi worked an inning and gave up two hits and one earned run. Jimmy Herget, Jaden Hill, Nick Frasso, and Jordan Romano rounded out the Colorado pitchers taking the mound against the Guardians.
Cleveland battered Sugano in the top of the first inning and scored three runs. Chase DeLauter's RBI triple, Jo Adell's RBI single, and Angel Martinez's RBI single put the Guardians up early at 3-0. They added two more runs in the top of the second inning on DeLauter's RBI single and Adell's RBI double.
That gave Cleveland a 5-0 advantage and, in the end, those were all of the runs that the Guardians needed to clinch a series sweep. Colorado posted two runs in the bottom of the second on Brett Sullivan's RBI double and Ryan Ritter's RBI groundout. It was 5-2 at that point and Cleveland added single runs in the fifth and eighth innings.
Guardians' Griffin was on point
Starting pitcher Foster Griffin worked the first five innings for the Guardians. He gave up five hits, two earned runs, walked three, and struck out four. Griffin threw 105 pitches in his start for Cleveland.
The Rockies and Guardians both left seven total runners on base for their Sunday afternoon efforts.
The six-game losing streak has dropped Colorado's season record to 50-79. The Rockies are trying to not put up another 100-loss season in 2026. In order for them to avoid that level of losses, they need to start putting some things together as the season enters its homestretch.
How bad is the Rockies' pitching this season? Colorado ranks dead last in team ERA and team WHIP.
The Rockies now head out on the road where they will play the Washington Nationals, Atlanta Braves, and Baltimore Orioles. Maybe they can find a win or two against those three teams.
