Rockies get to celebrate a win after losing 16 of
DENVER– The Colorado Rockies got to shake hands after a game for just the 2nd time in three weeks, and they celebrated after a novice outpitched the reigning NL Cy Young Award winner.
“You guys can probably hear it now. We’re in respectable spirits,” Chase Dollander said after Wednesday’s 2-1 win over the Atlanta Braves stopped an eight-game losing streak. “I would never say we were down in the locker room. Certainly, losing’s not fun, but at the same time, we know that we can winning and we can put a winning product on the field, so that’s precisely what we did today.”
Colorado had lost 16 of its previous 17 games. At 5-25, the Rockies prevented ending up being simply the second MLB team given that 1901 to lose a minimum of 26 of its first 30 games of the season.Only the 1988
Baltimore Orioles, who went on to go 54-107, had a worse 30-game start.
“There’s disappointment, sure. Guys are mad,” Rockies manager Bud Black stated. “These guys are expert baseball players who want to win games and want to succeed and it simply hasn’t happened as a group, right? We simply do not have sufficient guys playing well. For us to get going, we have 26 players, they all need to do a little better, maybe not all 26, however we need a greater majority of the guys to carry out and today, we only have a few guys.”
Brenton Doyle hit a tiebreaking home run in the 3rd inning. Ryan McMahon went 0 for 3 and extended his hitless streak to a team record 0 for 34, another than Desi Relaford in 2005. McMahon has two hits in his past 58 at-bats.
“We have to as a group and more players need to do a bit more on the field,” Black said.Doyle’s crowning achievement
ended a skid of 20 consecutive at-bats without a hit.”Everybody in here is
a competitor, so losing definitely harms, “Doyle said.” However we know we have to commemorate the wins. That’s what we’re going to do today.”
Dollander, the Rockies’ No. 9 general choice in the 2023 amateur draft, got his 2nd major league win in his 5th big league start by restricting the Braves to one run and 2 hits in 5 2/3 innings as part of a three-hitter.
He left because of a split fingernail on the middle finger of his throwing hand.
“This is a great confidence-builder for him, taking on Chris Sale, a Cy Young Award winner, and he essentially outdueled him,” Black stated. “What a fantastic feat today for him.”