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Rockies Suffer Crushing 7-6 Loss to Cardinals
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Rockies Suffer Crushing 7-6 Loss to Cardinals
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The Colorado Rockies suffered a gut-punch 7-6 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday at Coors Field in Denver.
The Rockies were able to overcome a deficit only to relinquish a lead of their own:
Fighting back
After Colorado took a 1-0 lead in the first inning, the Cardinals proceeded to score four unanswered runs between the second and the fifth inning.
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Ryan Feltner was on the mound for the Rockies, and while he was able to provide five innings of work and five strikeouts, he also gave up seven hits, four earned runs and three walks in that span. By the time he left the mound, Colorado was down 4-1.
Yet that did not stop the Rockies, who have often shown grit and a willingness to battle through another ugly season, and it almost benefited them.
In the bottom of the sixth inning, Colorado got back all of the runs it had given up previously thanks to a triple by TJ Rumfield , an inside-the-park home run by Cole Carrigg, and RBIs by Adael Amador and Zac Veen . All of a sudden, the Rockies had the lead again.
In the seventh, they added to their lead when Rumfield's bat stayed hot with a solo home run to right-center field. With a 6-4 advantage, Colorado just needed to get through six more batters to win the game.
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That would end up being too much to ask.
Squandering it
The Rockies' defense and relievers Jimmy Herget and Brennan Bernardino were able to hold the Cardinals off in the eighth, but once Jordan Romano came in to close the game in the ninth, things fell apart for the home team.
Romano opened the inning with a walk before getting the first out, but a throwing error by third baseman Connor Norby put runners in scoring position for St. Louis. With one swing of Ivan Herrera's bat, the Cardinals stole the lead back from the Rockies.
Herrera hit a three-run home run to center field to make it a 7-6 game, and Colorado's offense did not have another response in it with only three outs left to work with. The Rockies were dealt a brutal loss when victory was in reach, and now they must try to bounce back on Saturday.
With 87 losses and 21 games remaining, it has become increasingly likely that Colorado will lose 100 games or more for the fourth year in a row.
