GAME STORY: A return to Coors Field on Friday night did little to slow down the Rockies’ current freefall. by kylefredrickson
A poor start from southpaw Kyle Freeland — allowing six earned runs on a career-worst 12 hits — laid the foundation in a 14-10 Colorado loss to the visiting Royals. Defensive woes also continued with errors from Brendan Rodgers and Ryan McMahon. The team has now committed two-or-more errors in nine games this season.
The Rockies , winners in just one of their previous seven games, aim to turn things around on Saturday night against the Royals in their second matchup of a nine-game homestand. On Friday night, the Rockies trailed 8-3 in the fifth when they began a comeback push facing Royals starter Zach Greinke. The rally started with one-out singles from Yonathan Daza and Charlie Blackmon, followed by a McMahon RBI single and a Greinke wild pitch that scored Blackmon. Rodgers closed the inning with a two-run double to pull Colorado to within 8-7.
Kansas City padded its lead with a four-run seventh inning — a Michael Taylor RBI double, a Whit Merrifield RBI single and an Andrew Benintendi RBI triple — facing Rockies reliever Alex Colome. Colorado still had more fight. Rodgers blasted a two-run homer in the seventh to make it 12-9. However, in the eighth, Kansas City’s Ryan O’Hearn launched his own two-run homer into the second deck off reliever Carlos Estevez for a 14-9 advantage.
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