The Colorado Rockies scored early, but then went badly in the early innings. They had fallen 7-0 after three innings and things looked bleak. However, a career performance by Mickey Moniak and a mainly stable bullpen kept them in the game. Unfortunately, the Padres broke through in the eighth to take the 9-6 victory.
Germán Márquez struggled in his outing today and only lasted 2 1/3 innings before he was drawn. He gave up back-to-back singles to the first two batters-fernando Tatís Jr. And Jackson Merrill. Then he withdrew Ramón Laureano and Gavin sheets, but ran Ryan O’Hearn to load the bases. While they do that, the walk came back to chase when Jake Cronenworth hit a single single to score Tatís, and José Iglesias crashed to score Merrill and O’Hearn. That made the score 3-0 early.
Things did not get better in the second, because Ezequiel Tovar made a mistake to put Mason McCoy on base. Tatís then hit a single and then Merrill hit a home run – his fourth in his last eight games – to double the score. Márquez, however, came back to retire the following three batters.
But in the third he again gave up three-right singles before he got McCoy to fly to the middle. After a walk to Tatís being third time at the base in the same number of battle-ups, Warren Schaeffer that he had seen enough and had pulled Márquez after 71 throws.
“I don’t think it was as bad if it seemed,” Schaeffer said after the game. “Nine hits, seven of them on the floor. They played a good little ball. You had to hand it over to the Padres, they played a good little ball in that first inning. They had a clear plan about what they wanted to do and they carried out it.”
In total Márquez gave up seven points (six earned) on nine hits with two walks and zero strikeouts. It was Márquez’s second career with start with Zero Strikeouts, with the other on August 29 against the Chicago Cubs on Coors Field.
“It’s baseball, you know,” said Márquez. “I didn’t feel like I was hanging my throws in the middle, so they came through and things happened.”
Blaine Crim has received a lot of attention this series and rightly. But today Moniak decided to shift the focus. In his first battle of the game, he put a single and stole a base (but unfortunately was stranded). In his second battle in the fourth inning, he decided to take the score in his own hands by touching a home-run from Leadoff.
To do a better, he hit a three-run Homer in the sixth to close the gorge from 7-1 to 7-4 after Tyler Freeman was hit by a throw and Tovar hit a single to break a 0-out-19-Malaise.
And then in the seventh he hit another RBI Single (after Tovar had doubled) to bring the Rockies into one.
“I felt that I saw the ball well,” Moniak said. “I was able to jump a bit on two throws, put good swings on them, and then that kind of everything you can control, but today it worked.”
Unfortunately he was stranded when Crimea was called up. Schaeffer went out to argue, but went back to the dugout without being thrown out. However, he was ejected in the next inning on a borderline strike call on Kyle Farmer (who remained in the game).
“The inning before I should have been thrown out with Crimea,” said Schaeffer. “That bothered me. There were a few fields late in the game that bothered me. I thought he took the ball from our boys. But in general I thought James Jean was good there.”
With the single in the seventh, Moniak placed a career-high five RBIs. It also marked the second time in his career where he had four or more RBI, and he also became the second Rockie in 2025 who had at least four hits and five RBI in one match. The other was Brenton Doyle on 10 April against the Milwaukee Brewers.
De Rockies made a good comeback in the later innings, but unfortunately it wasn’t enough. Ransy Contreras came in to illuminate Márquez and threw 3 2/3 clean innings with only one hit – a single for Freddy Fermin in the fifth. Juan Mejia threw the seventh and only allowed two Hungreekers – touching sheets and walking Cronenworth.
“We kept fighting today,” said Schaeffer. “This is a game that we could easily have been folded on of an insufficient road trip, with 7-0 after three. But the boys did not fold and cap for that. Deer for everyone in that clubhouse to continue.”
Unfortunately, happiness was up afterwards. Jimmy Herget came in to pitch the eighth to replace Mejia and immediately gave up a two -squeeze to McCoy. Tatís hit a sharp single to move McCoy and then stole second to put itself in a score position. That paid off, because three batters later-after back-to-back large swinging strikeouts sheets become a basic rule twice to score both and run the score from 7-6 to 9-6. Ryan Rolison came in to close the inning and let O’Hearn fly on two throws.
In the ninth four Rockies came on the record and three were sent down (two prisoners look). Pinch-Hitter Hunter Goodman reached a mistake, but was stranded in second place.
The Rockies have a day off on Monday before they started their last homing position against the Miami Marlins on Tuesday. Kyle Freeland (4-15, 4.97 ERA) assumes right-hand-hand-Eyy Pérez (6-5, 4.67 ERA). The first pitch is at 6:40 PM Mt.
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