DENVER — On Saturday night time, the Colorado Rockies averted making historical past for the entire incorrect causes.
With a 10-6 win over the Minnesota Twins at Coors Discipline, the Rockies captured their first dwelling sequence of the 2025 season and snapped an general 17-series winless streak relationship again to final season. That was tied with the 1916-17 Philadelphia Athletics for the longest such streak in MLB historical past.
Following Colorado’s 6-4 win over the Twins on Friday night time, the Rockies have now gained consecutive video games for the primary time all season.
That is a optimistic signal for a franchise that would nonetheless problem final season’s Chicago White Sox, a crew that misplaced 121 video games, for probably the most losses in a single season within the fashionable period.
“That is undoubtedly a pleasant constructing block,” Rockies interim supervisor Warren Schaeffer mentioned. “We would like sequence wins at dwelling. No person wished it to take this lengthy to get it, nevertheless it would not matter. We acquired it proper now.”
Colorado entered the post-All-Star schedule with a 10-36 file at Coors Discipline this season. 9 of these 10 wins got here throughout sequence finales, with every of these wins guaranteeing the Rockies wouldn’t be swept in a sequence.
Even after Friday’s win over the Twins, Colorado’s struggles at dwelling this season had been evident. The crew’s 11-36 mark was not solely the worst dwelling file amongst all MLB groups, but additionally probably the most losses at dwelling for any crew in MLB’s fashionable period.
One of many keys to Colorado’s series-clinching win on Saturday night time was the return of the house run. Energy has been missing for the Rockies this season, as Colorado has totaled simply 92 dwelling runs via their first 97 video games.
That energy outage wasn’t evident on Saturday, nevertheless, as Ryan McMahon belted a two-run dwelling run within the third inning to tie the sport and Ezequiel Tovar added a three-run shot within the fifth inning to middle area to push Colorado into the lead.
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