Ryan Braun led off the 11th with a homer against Matt Lindstrom, giving the Milwaukee Brewers a 2-1 win over the Colorado Rockies, who have lost four games this season at Miller Park by a total of five runs.
The Colorado Rockies beat the San Diego Padres 5-4 and clinched their sixth straight series win at Petco Park as Alex White pitched five innings for his first Rockies win and four relievers chipped in with a scoreless inning.
Esmil Rogers kept the Colorado Rockies in the game after a big first-inning mistake. But because of their continued inability to string hits together and deliver in the clutch, they lost 4-2 and were swept by the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Aaron Cook didn’t make it through the fifth. The Colorado Rockies made one bad play in the field, another on the bases and managed to get little output from 13 hits in a 9-4 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Esmil Rogers was nearly untouchable for six innings, but everything fell apart for him and the Colorado Rockies in the seventh inning as the Rockies dropped the first of a three-game series with the Los Angeles Dodgers, 6-1.
The Colorado Rockies blew three leads but won their fourth straight game, beating the Houston Astros 8-6 when Jonathan Herrera, of all people, hit a two-run homer in the seventh
The Rockies scored six runs in the first, one in the second and took an eight-run lead into the ninth but needed closer Rafael Betancourt to get the final two outs in a 9-5 win over the Houston Astros.
The Colorado Rockies scored twice to tie the game in the 12th, aided by Todd Helton’s run-scoring double on a memorable at-bat, and beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-6 in the 13th when Dexter Fowler singled home the winning run with two out.
Jason Hammel was roughed up early, putting the Colorado Rockies in a 6-0 hole before leaving after three innings — his shortest outing of the season — in an 8-2 loss Friday to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Colorado Rockies and, again, Jason Giambi in particular made a ninth-inning charge, but Jhoulys Chacin lasted a season-low four innings in a 6-5 loss to the Florida Marlins.
Colorado Rockies outfielder Carlos Gonzalez and shortstop Troy Tulowitzki were winners in the annual Best Tools survey of National League managers conducted by Baseball America, and first baseman Todd Helton received mention.
The Colorado Rockies stumbled badly on the national stage and lost their 17th straight Sunday game, falling 6-2 to the St. Louis Cardinals.
