DENVER -- Jake McCarthy was determined to give the Rockies a first-inning lead, even if it was going to cost him his pregame meal.

DENVER -- Rockies third baseman Kyle Karros felt the nick of victory. With the bases loaded and two out in the ninth in a one-run game, Karros charged to field Jake Mangum’s slow grounder but felt the foot of Pirates baserunner Billy Cook graze his glove. Karros never made a

DENVER -- Rockies No. 13 prospect and onetime top pick Zac Veen launched a Statcast-projected 454-foot home run Friday night for Triple-A Albuquerque against Sugar Land -- to the upper level of the seating berm behind the left-field wall at Isotopes Park.

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DENVER -- While dominating for most of his 7 1/3 innings against the Pirates on Friday night, Kyle Freeland became the second pitcher to reach 1,000 strikeouts in a Rockies uniform. He knew that the other -- now-Padres hurler Germán Márquez, who broke in with him in 2017 -- was

DENVER – Rockies No. 2/MLB Pipeline No. 71 prospect Charlie Condon is swinging a productive bat -- and, figuratively, one sharp No. 2 pencil. Entering Friday night, Condon had produced a .343/.425/.971 slash line over his previous nine games with Triple-A Albuquerque, with six home runs, four walks, 16 RBIs

CHICAGO -- Rockies No. 15 prospect Sterlin Thompson is showing the valuable trait of being ready even though the calls don’t come regularly. Thompson did not play in Colorado’s first two games at Wrigley Field, but on Wednesday night he knocked his first two Major League home runs and added

CHICAGO -- Over his first nine Major League games, Rockies No. 6 prospect Cole Carrigg has shown off all the athletic traits that made him the 65th overall pick in the 2023 MLB Draft. In Wednesday night's 8-6 loss to the Cubs at Wrigley Field, he broke out the throwing

CHICAGO – Rockies No. 6 prospect Cole Carrigg is getting the full Wrigley Field experience. He homered Monday night, and Wednesday was part of the Rockies’ tradition of low-service time guys making a run to a nearby Starbucks for the clubhouse.

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CHICAGO -- Steadiness has been Rockies rookie TJ Rumfield's calling card, but he throws in enough power to be special. Rumfield provided a spark with a two-run home run in the fourth inning of Tuesday night’s 5-2 win over the Cubs at Wrigley Field.

CHICAGO -- Rockies prospect Cole Carrigg was more than a bystander in a historic game at Wrigley Field Monday night. Carrigg’s eighth-inning homer gave the Rockies a lead, but the Cubs won a 5-4 walk-off decision -- on a night when Pete Crow-Armstrong hit for the 13th cycle in franchise

CHICAGO -- The Rockies’ bullpen is full of youthful electricity. But sometimes the currents buzz out of control -- like Monday night, when Seth Halvorsen’s 99 mph fastball to Matt Shaw resulted in the bases-loaded walk that ended a 5-4 loss to the Cubs at Wrigley Field. The bigger nightmare

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DENVER -- The elusive intangible of momentum powered Rockies catcher Brett Sullivan on Thursday afternoon. On Wednesday night, Sullivan delivered a pinch-hit single to set up Sterlin Thompson’s winning single in a Rockies walk-off. Sullivan followed that up on Thursday with his first career multihomer game in the Rockies’ 9-3

DENVER – The personality the Rockies welcome from No. 6 prospect Cole Carrigg showed through his stylish bat flip to punctuate his first Major League home run – a solo shot in the fourth inning of Thursday afternoon’s 9-3 loss to the Cubs at Coors Field.

DENVER -- Rookie Sterlin Thompson quipped about his place in Rockies trivia. “Colorado native, baby,” Thompson said.

DENVER -- As soon as his first hit bounced past first base and into the right-field corner at Coors Field on Tuesday night, Rockies No. 6 prospect Cole Carrigg had third base in his sights – darn any possible consequence. The batting helmet would not stay on through his long

DENVER -- Rockies left-hander Kyle Freeland lifted his cap and received the love of the Coors Field crowd and his hometown on Sunday afternoon.

DENVER -- The Rockies’ Tyler Freeman can vouch that taking 98.2 mph off the side of the batting helmet is frightening enough.

DENVER -- It doesn’t pay to ask right-hander Ryan Feltner whether he will become the main attraction in the Rockies’ rotation. The question doesn’t bother Feltner. And he is a cerebral guy, so it’s not as if he’s at a loss for an answer. It’s that defining himself at a

LOS ANGELES -- Rockies first baseman TJ Rumfield showed up at Coors Field on Friday and learned that he had lost a home run off his stat sheet. To explain: Rumfield’s fly ball to right field during Tuesday’s 8-2 Rockies victory at Angel Stadium glanced off Jo Adell’s glove, then

DENVER -- Rockies right-handed starting pitcher Tanner Gordon, who was scheduled to start on Saturday night against the Brewers at Coors Field, was placed on the 15-day injured list on Friday with a right hip impingement, retroactive to Tuesday. To replace Gordon, 28 and in his third season of Major

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DENVER -- First baseman TJ Rumfield, among the few consistently productive offensive players for the Rockies this season, was scratched from the lineup due to right shoulder inflammation just before the first pitch of Sunday afternoon’s game against the Giants. “He’s day to day,” manager Warren Schaeffer said after the