Colorado Rockies baseball is at speed to an unwanted place in history, and the schedule has not got any help.
New York Yankis is in Denver for a weekend series starting on Friday night. Rockies won a rare victory in the opener, 3-2.
Yankis will send Max Fried (6–0, 1.29 ERA) to the mound against Kyle Freeland (0-6, 5.68) in a left-arm matchup in the series on Saturday afternoon.
New York raised its four-game winning streak, but maintained a five-game lead over Toronto in the American League East. Even with winning, Colorado (9-42) has yet to crack double digits in the Win Column. Rockies had lost five straight games entering the series and are at the pace of breaking the record of the modern era for the modern era records (121) in the season set by Chicago White Socks last year.
Colorado must defeat Fried to reach two consecutive wins this season, and it will not be easy. Fried, who is in its first season with Yennaks after seven-plus years with Atlanta, is 1-2 with 3.66 ERA in six career performance against the fifth start-stops.
Fried dominated its first season in New York. Yennakis have started nine out of 10, and they have allowed two or less earned runs in every outing.
Reliever Deviin Williams, other important offsen acquisitions of Yenkis made a thick start and lost his close role after posting 11.25 ERA. He has recently picked well, but he said that he is not worried about recovering his job.
“It doesn’t matter yet,” Williams told New York Daily News.
Colorado has a player who is trying to regain his appearance in the first Basman Michael Toglia, who is out of the early lineup for three direct sports and the fourth time in the last seven.
Toglia, who starts a 106 straight streak at the first base ended in April, leads Major in a strike with 71 and scored just six domestic runs after hitting 25 in the last season.
Rockies’s interim manager Warren Shefefer said he had kept Toglia out of the lineup to work through his struggles.
“We came with a complete plan for him, because we care for him and we want to go on the right path,” the shefer said.
Toglia is hitting .205 for the season and only .133 on the road and said that he accepts the plan of Shefer.
“This is just a breath, to spend some time to return to fastball – some barrel accuracy,” Toglia said, who entered the first basis in the eighth to enter Friday’s game. “It does not take too much swings. It can click after one or two rounds. You just have to stay there.”
Freeland hopes that its first win of the season is against New York, a team that he has faced twice in his career. It is 0–2 with those initially 5.91 ERA.
The Freeland is coming from one of its best outings of the season, when he allowed Philadelphia to just one run in 5 1/3 innings of 9–3 defeat on Monday. Freeland did not get any decision.
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