Arenado now has a franchise record six Gold Gloves. He is the seventh third baseman to win at least six Gold Gloves, the third NL third baseman to do so (Mike Schmidt, Scott Rolen). Arenado and Schmidt are the only NL third baseman to win at least six consecutive Gold Gloves.
Charlie Blackmon is the first player in franchise history with three consecutive four-hit games and the first player in MLB to do so since Rafael Furcal May 13-15, 2007.
Per Elias, today’s lineup in Pittsburgh is the first in Rockies history in which all starters were originally signed by Colorado as either Rockies draftees or non-drafted free agents and made their Major League debuts as Rockies.
The Rockies announced today that they will retire jersey number 33 in honor of Larry Walker. The ceremony will take place on Sunday, April 19 prior to the Rockies’ 1:10 p.m. MDT game against the St. Louis Cardinals, which will conclude a weekend of celebrations.
Per
@EliasSports
,
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RHP Dakota Hudson became the second pitcher in the last 30 years to face three former MVPs in a game (Betts, Ohtani, Freeman) and hold them to a combined 0-for-9 while also not issuing them a walk or HBP.
Nolan Arenado finished the month of May batting .425 (45-for-106) with nine doubles, one triple, nine home runs and 29 RBI.
His 45 hits in the month are tied for the sixth-most for a single month in franchise history, the most since Todd Helton had 50 hits in August of 2000.
Nolan Arenado wins his eighth consecutive Rawlings Gold Glove Award, making him the fourth third baseman in Major League history to win at least eight Gold Gloves.
Nolan Arenado has won his third consecutive Rawlings Platinum Glove Award for the top defensive player in the National League as voted by fans and SABR. He is the first player to win the award three consecutive times.
It was announced today that Larry Walker has been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame after receiving 76.6% of the vote in his 10th and final year on the ballot. He is the first Rockies player ever elected to the Hall of Fame.
With his third hit in the seventh inning Charlie Blackmon becomes the first player in Rockies franchise history with five consecutive games with at least three hits.
Trevor Story hit his 20th home run of the season last night, becoming the first shortstop in MLB history to hit 20 or more home runs in each of his first four seasons … surpassed C. Correa, N. Garciaparra and C. Ripken Jr. (three seasons of 20 home runs to begin their careers).
Charlie Blackmon hits the second walk-off grand slam in franchise history. The other was by Ryan Spilborghs on Aug. 24, 2009 vs. SF. It was Blackmon's second grand slam of 2020 (also Aug. 26 at Arizona), and his third career walk-off home run (last: April 19, 2019 vs. PHI).
With today's release of the 2020
@baseballhall
ballot, we once again present the case for Larry Walker, who is on the ballot for the final time.
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Nolan Arenado’s NL Player of the Week recognition for the week of May 20-26 (14-26, .538 AVG, 7 R, 4 HR, 9 RBI) is the sixth of his career, which ties Dante Bichette and Todd Helton for the most in franchise history.
Charlie Blackmon finishes tonight’s game with a .500 batting average (34-68). He is the fifth player in the last 50 seasons to bat .500 or better through their team’s first 17 games, joining Tony Perez (1970, CIN), Rod Carew (‘83, CAL), Larry Walker (‘97) and Barry Bonds (‘04).
The Colorado Rockies announced today that they have agreed to terms with 1B C.J. Cron on a two-year contract that covers the 2022-23 seasons, and have agreed to terms with RHP Antonio Senzatela on a five-year contract that covers the 2022-26 seasons with an option for 2027.
Charlie Blackmon’s four hits are the most by a Rockies player in Yankee Stadium (new or old) in franchise history. Blackmon joins Carlos González (2016) and Juan Pierre (2002) as the only Rockies with a four-hit game vs. the Yankees.
Ryan McMahon is the first
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player ever to hit a game-winning home run in the seventh inning or later in consecutive games. He is the first Major League rookie to accomplish the feat since Chris Young in 2007.
Trevor Story’s HR tonight was the 100th of his career in his 448th game. That is the fewest games played to reach 100 HR by a shortstop in MLB history. He joins A. Rodriguez (470) and N. Garciaparra (491) as the only shortstops to hit 100 HR in fewer than 500 career games.
Larry Walker’s 72.7 WAR is the fourth-most among all players on the 2020 Hall of Fame Ballot, the second-most among position players, trailing only Barry Bonds.
Jon Gray recorded his 10th win of the season tonight, the first pitcher in franchise history to have four consecutive 10-win seasons. Jorge De La Rosa is the only other Rockies pitcher with four total seasons of at least 10 wins.
According to
@EliasSports
, Nolan Arenado is the first third baseman in MLB history with 30 or more home runs and 100 or more RBI in five consecutive seasons.
DJ LeMahieu with his first career walk-off RBI of any kind. It’s the fifth walk-off home run by the
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this year, the second-most in franchise history (seven, 2010). Each walk-off home run has been hit by a different player (Story, Blackmon, McMahon, Desmond, LeMahieu).
David Dahl joins Nolan Arenado, Larry Walker and Dante Bichette as the only
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to hit a home run in five consecutive games. Arenado homered in a franchise-record six-straight games Sept. 1-5, 2015.
Charlie Blackmon’s walk-off home run was the fifth walk-off home run that came in the 12th inning or later in franchise history, the first since Ryan Spilborgh’s 14th-inning grand slam on Aug. 24, 2009 vs. San Francisco.
Nolan Arenado’s home run in the first inning gave him 2,001 total bases in his career. He reached that milestone in his 966th career game, the fewest amount of games by any third baseman in the live-ball era.
Charlie Blackmon extends his hitting streak to 13 games in the first inning at T-Mobile Park. The double is his eighth extra-base hit during the streak.
With nine strikeouts tonight against the Padres, Germán Márquez moved into fourth-all time with 754 career strikeouts as a Rockie. He passed Pedro Astacio with 749.
Nolan Arenado's seventh home run of the season gives him his 749th career RBI, which ties Carlos González for the fourth-most RBI in franchise history.
Larry Walker’s career .865 OPS on the road is equal to or greater than that of Hall of Famers George Brett, Orlando Cepeda, Roberto Clemente, Ken Griffey Jr., Tony Gwynn, Reggie Jackson, Al Kaline and Willie Stargell.
The Rockies announced today that they have acquired left-handed pitcher Phillip Diehl from the New York Yankees in exchange for outfielder Mike Tauchman.
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starters have posted a 1.71 ERA at home in the month of July, which is a franchise record for the lowest starter ERA in a single month at Coors Field (previous low, excluding Octobers: 2.80, May 2006).
The Rockies today selected the contract of infielder Mark Reynolds. With the transaction, the Rockies’ 40-man roster is at 39 with 27 players on the Spring Training roster.
Charlie Blackmon (six home runs) and DJ LeMahieu (five HR) have hit all of their home runs on the road. Blackmon’s six road HR are the most in MLB.
The last
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player whose first six or more HR in a season all came on the road was Ian Stewart in 2010.
Raimel Tapia extends his hitting streak to 18 games with his single in the sixth inning, the longest hitting streak by a Rockies player since Carlos González had a 19-game streak in 2016.
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shortstop Trevor Story leads the Majors in hitting since June 8 with a .378 (45-for-119) clip. He also leads the big leagues in road batting average that time span, hitting .414 (24-for-58) away from Coors.
The Rockies have now won 10 consecutive games at home, the second-longest home winning streak in a single season in franchise history (longest: 11 games, June 30-July 24, 1996).
Dom Nuñez is the seventh player in franchise history to hit a home run in his Major League debut. He joins:
Trevor Story - 4/4/16 at ARI
Jeff Baker - 4/4/05 vs. SD
Luis González- 4/6/04 at ARI
Jason Jennings - 8/23/01 at NYM
Todd Helton - 8/2/97 at PIT
Jay Gainer - 5/14/93 at CIN
Nolan Arenado hits his 33rd home run of 2019 in the fifth inning. It is his 17th road home run this season, which is tied for the 10th-most road home runs in a single season in franchise history (also: Ellis Burks, 1996; Charlie Blackmon 2016).
General Manager Jeff Bridich announced this morning that the Rockies have agreed to terms with Manager Bud Black on a three-year contract extension through the 2022 season.
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starting pitcher German Márquez struck out the side on nine pitches in the fourth inning, the second “immaculate inning” in franchise history. Rex Brothers also accomplished the feat June 14, 2014 vs. San Francisco.
Arenado’s seven Gold Gloves are the fourth-most by a third basemen in MLB history, trailing Brooks Robinson (16), Mike Schmidt (10) and Scott Rolen (8).
The Rockies finish at 9-1 on their 10-game, three-team homestand against Baltimore (2-1), Arizona (4-0) and Toronto (3-0). The 9-1 record matches Colorado’s best-ever record in a 10-game homestand (also: 9-1, Sept. 1-10, 2009 vs. New York-NL, Arizona, Cincinnati).
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right-handed pitcher Adam Ottavino tied the franchise record for strikeouts in a season by a reliever, equaling Curtis Leskanic's 1995 mark of 107.
Trevor Story hits his 32nd home run of the season in the fifth inning, which is tied for the most home runs for a shortstop in a single season in
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history (also: Troy Tulowitzki, 32 in 2009).
Nolan Arenado (4) joins Todd Helton (6), Vinny Castilla (6), Larry Walker (4) and Andres Galarraga (4) as the only
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to reach 30 home runs in four or more seasons.
Charlie Blackmon’s 15 hits thus far in this series are the most for any Major League player in a series of four or fewer games in the modern era (since 1900).
LeMahieu is the fifth player in
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history to win at least three Gold Gloves, joining Nolan Arenado, Larry Walker, Carlos González and Todd Helton.
Left-handed pitcher Lucas Gilbreath will serve as the 27th man in today’s doubleheader, his first stint on the active roster. He will wear
#58
.
Gilbreath is a graduate of Legacy High School in Broomfield, Colo.
In addition to Nolan Arenado (NL starter at third base), Charlie Blackmon, David Dahl and Trevor Story have been named as NL All-Stars. Arenado is an All-Star for the fifth time, Blackmon for the fourth time, Story for the second time and Dahl for the first time.
Trevor Story hits his first career walk-off home run to give the
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a 4-3 win. He also extended his hitting streak to a career-high tying 10 games.
The
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head into the All-Star break a season-high tying six games above .500. They are 13-3 over their last 16 games.
Over his last three starts, Germán Márquez has pitched 23 innings and allowed one run on four hits. Per
@EliasSports
, he joins Johnny Vander Meer (1938) and Rube Marquard (1911) as the only pitchers since 1893 to produce those numbers or better over a three-start span.
Per
@EliasSports
, Chris Iannetta becomes the first Rockies player to record the game-winning RBI in 1-0 Rockies wins three different times. Has done it on a HR each time. He is the third active player to have three or more home runs in 1-0 wins (N. Walker, 4; J. Upton, 3).
The
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have now won nine straight games started by Jon Gray, tied with Ubaldo Jimenez in 2010 for the longest team winning streak by a starting pitcher in franchise history.
Arenado’s four Silver Slugger Awards are tied with Todd Helton for the most in
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franchise history.
He joins Mike Schmidt and Wade Boggs as the only third basemen to win the award in at least four consecutive seasons.
495' home run from
@Ry_McMahon
:
- longest HR by a Rockie in the Statcast Era (2015-22).
- 2nd longest in the Majors in 2022.
- 4th longest in Coors Field history.
- longest at Coors Field by a Rockies player.
- tied for 6th longest overall in the Statcast era.
The official attendance of the first Rockies Home Opener on April 9, 1993 vs. Montreal was 80,227, which is a single-game record for the Rockies. In total, Colorado welcomed 4,483,350 fans in 1993, which stands as the MLB regular-season attendance record.
#StayAtHomeOpener
Raimel Tapia extended his hitting streak to a career-long 13 games today. He has recorded 12 doubles (so far) during the streak, the most doubles over any 13-game span in franchise history.
The
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last three walk-off wins, dating back to Aug. 3, 2017, have all come via a walk. Tonight was the first walk-off RBI of Tony Wolters’ career.
The
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bullpen tossed a franchise-record five perfect innings tonight. The prior mark for most innings pitched in a game by
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relievers without allowing a baserunner was 4.2 in a 1-0 loss at Atlanta Sept. 6, 2012.
Nolan Arenado hits his first home run of the season. It was the 228th home run of his career, passing Carlos González for the fourth-most in
@rockies
history.
Nolan Arenado joins Todd Helton, Vinny Castilla, Carlos González, Larry Walker and Dante Bichette as the only Rockies with five or more seasons of 25+ home runs.
Arenado, Castilla (1995-99) and Helton (1998-2004) are the only Rockies to do it in five consecutive seasons.
Left-handed pitcher Lucas Gilbreath, a graduate of Legacy High School in Westminster, Colo., strikes out three in one inning of work in his first career Spring Training appearance.
Márquez finishes with a career-high 13 strikeouts. He is the fifth pitcher in club history to strike out 13 or more batters in a game, joining Jon Gray (16, 9/17/16 vs. SD), Ubaldo Jimenez (13, 5/3/10 at SD), Shawn Chacon (13, 6/7/01 vs. HOU) and Darryl Kile (14, 8/20/98 at MON).
German Márquez has recorded a career-high tying 10 strikeouts tonight. It’s his fourth career double-digit strikeout game, his second this month (also: Aug. 8 vs. Pittsburgh).
The Colorado Rockies announced today that they have placed infielder Trevor Story on the 10-day injured list (retro to May 28) with right elbow inflammation. Infielder Matt Adams was reinstated from the 10-day injured list.
Trevor Story named the W.B. Mason National League Player of the Week. Story earned his fourth career Player of the Week Award, most recently for the period ending July 15, 2018. Story is the second consecutive Rockie to earn weekly honors, following Nolan Arenado last week.
Double-A Hartford RHP Chase Dollander was named the Rockies Oranizational Pitcher of the Month for August. The 22-year-old was 2-0 with a 0.92 ERA (29.1 IP, 3 ER) with 41 strikeouts in five starts during the month, holding opposing hitters to a .163 average.