There haven’t been many grand old nights at the ballpark in LoDo this season, but May 23 will be remembered as one of them.
A full stadium hung on every pitch in the late innings. Sure, many of them were here to root for the visitors, but the Colorado Rockies found a way to defeat the New York Yankees, 3-2, in front of an electric crowd of 47,211 at Coors Field.
Tanner Gordon was an unexpected hero, and then Ryan McMahon delivered the huge hit that has evaded this Rockies club so often in what has already felt like a lost season. The win snapped a five-game losing streak and improved the Rockies’ record to 9-42.
First pitch was at 6:40 p.m., but the “Let’s Go Yankees” chants began a minute earlier. There was a roll-call attempt from the visiting fans in right field.
It felt like a long night at Yankee Stadium West was forthcoming, especially when New York grabbed a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Gordon, called up to start because top prospect Chase Dollander went on the disabled list, had other ideas.
Gordon made his second start of the year for the Rockies, and it was a good one. Rockies interim manager Warren Schaeffer set his expectations before the game for the 27-year-old righthander — attack with his best stuff, regardless of who was at the plate.
Aaron Judge singled and scored in the first. He earned “M-V-P” chants from the visiting fans after a home run in the fifth put the Yankees in front 2-1. But outside of a triple off the wall from Paul Goldschmidt that scored Judge in the first, Gordon was efficient through six solid innings.
Gordon got some help from Adael Amador on a great snag that turned into a double play in the fourth, but otherwise, he kept Colorado in this game until McMahon could deliver the big hit. He struck out five batters, including Anthony Volpe, to finish a 1-2-3 sixth at the end of his outing.
McMahon scored Colorado’s first run after a walk, wild pitch and a single from Kyle Farmer. When he came to the plate in the fifth, there were two runners on, and Hunter Goodman had just chased Yankees starter Clarke Schmidt with the second of back-to-back singles.
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The Yankees threatened in the eighth, when Trent Grisham drew a leadoff walk and brought Judge to the plate. His duel with Colorado’s top relief pitcher this season, Jake Bird, ended with another raucous round of applause … but from the hometown fans. Judge grounded into a 6-3 double play, then Bird punched out Ben Rice on strikes.
When Austin Wells flew out to shortstop for the final out, there was another roar from the home fans. It was the kind of night Rockies fans have longed for, and their ball club delivered.
FOOTNOTES: Schaeffer said Michael Toglia will be back in the starting lineup Saturday after three consecutive days off. Toglia has struggled this season, with a league-leading 71 strikeouts. He had eight in 12 at-bats in the three games before this mini-break. Toglia did replace Farmer for defense at first base in the eighth inning of this contest.
Saturday’s pitching matchup
Yankees LHP Max Fried (6-0, 1.29 ERA) at Rockies LHP Kyle Freeland (0-6, 5.68)
2:10 p.m. Monday, Coors Field
TV: Rockies.TV (streaming); Comcast/Xfinity (channel 1262); DirecTV (683); Spectrum (130, 445, 305, 435 or 445, depending on region).
Radio: 850 AM/94.1 FM
Fried is one of the leading contenders for the American League Cy Young Award. He leads the majors in ERA and is fifth in the AL with a .186 batting average against. The Yankees signed him to the largest contract in league history for a left-handed pitcher, exactly one week after Juan Soto finalized his megadeal with the crosstown Mets. Fried allowed six runs (two earned) in his Yankees debut, but has yielded a total of eight runs (seven earned) in his nine starts since then.
Freeland has allowed the second-most hits in the majors this season (71), behind only his teammate, Antonio Senzatela, who has yielded 84. He is coming off his second-best outing of the season, holding the high-powered Phillies offense to one run on seven hits Monday in 5 1/3 innings. Batters are hitting .514 against Freeland when they put the first pitch of an at-bat in play (18-for-35), which is the highest among qualified pitchers.
Pitching probables
Sunday: Yankees RHP Will Warren (3-2, 4.05) at Rockies RHP Antonio Senzatela (1-8, 6.34), 1:10 p.m.
Monday: Rockies TBA at Cubs TBA, 12:20 p.m.
Tuesday: Rockies TBA at Cubs TBA, 6:05 p.m.
— Corey Masisak, The Denver Post
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