Colorado Rockies broke out the bats against Los Angeles Angels in early innings on Tuesday night, taking an early lead.
The Colorado Rockies might have wanted to take advantage of the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday night at LA Angels at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, Calif. They got started early and scored often against the Angels.
In the top of the seventh, the Rockies held an 8-2 lead.
Let's see how Colorado scored their runs.
Hunter Goodman hit his 15th home run this season off of Angels starter Grayson Rodriguez, who had an awful outing. Goodman's blast gave the Rockies a 1-0 lead. Troy Johnson then doubled to Angels right fielder Jo Adell. Johnson reached third base on a throwing error by Adell.
Ezequiel Tovar's sacrifice fly drove in Johnson from third and the Rockies extended their lead to 2-0. Sterlin Thompson and Kyle Karros reached base on walks from Rodriguez. Edouard Julien singled to right, scoring Thompson and raising Colorado's advantage to 3-0.
But Julien was thrown out on the basepaths by Adell's throw to second base.
With two outs in the top of the fourth, Rodriguez was just one out away from getting out of the inning. That didn't happen. Karros reached base on an infield hit. Julien singled to right and Karros moved to second base.
Jake McCarthy singled to left field, bringing in Karros and extending the Rockies' lead to 4-0. Julien moved to third base and McCarthy reached second base on a throwing error by Angels left fielder Wade Meckler.
Willi Castro then flexed his muscles and slammed a three-run home run to push the Rockies up to a 7-0 advantage. Julien and McCarthy scored ahead of Castro, who now has three home runs this season.
TJ Rumfield stepped up and hit his eighth home run this season, sending Colorado up to an 8-0 advantage. But this was no ordinary home run. Adell drifted back to make a catch, but the ball hit off his glove, then off his head, and over the right-field fence.
You have to see how this all went down.
Should the Rockies be able to hold on to their lead, which it looks like will happen as they play in the top of the eighth inning, their overall record will improve.
Rockies manager Warren Schaeffer has to be pleased with what he's seen from his team here. Schaeffer has been working hard to put the Rockies into a position to be competitive this season.
It definitely has not started off in that direction.
There's still time to get to the .500 mark, yet it will take a collective effort to do so.
Tomoyuki Sugano got the start for Colorado on Tuesday night. He went five innings, giving up five hits, two earned runs, walked two, and struck out five. Reliever Blas Castaño came on and worked two innings, didn't give up a hit or allowed an earned run. Castaño struck out two Angels in his outing.
TJ Shook came on in the eighth inning and got out of the inning on a nifty double play. He'll probably come on in the ninth. Unless Schaeffer decides differently.
