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Associated Press
4 days ago
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- Associated Press
Rockies demote first baseman Michael Toglia
NEW YORK (AP) — Struggling Colorado Rockies first baseman Michael Toglia was optioned to Triple-A Albuquerque prior to Saturday's game against the New York Mets. Toglia appeared to establish himself as the Rockies' first baseman last year, when he hit .233 with 21 homers following his June recall from Triple-A. He produced his first multi-homer game July 14, when he went deep three times against the Mets at Citi Field. But Toglia began this season in a 2-for-23 slump and didn't homer until his 65th plate appearance. He hit .247 with six homers in 26 games from April 16 through May 14 before hitting .125 with 22 strikeouts in his next 40 at-bats. He leads the majors with 81 strikeouts in just 186 at-bats. Interim Rockies manager Warren Schaeffer said he wants Toglia to 'go down and control the strike zone better.' 'He just needs to get better overall offensively,' he said. The 24-year-old was 0-for-4 with two strikeouts while serving as the Rockies' No. 8 hitter in Friday's 4-2 loss which dropped Colorado to 9-48 — the worst record through 57 games in the modern era. 'It wasn't working out right now for him and he knows that,' Schaeffer said. 'In the future, we expect big things from Mike.' To replace Toglia on the roster, the Rockies selected the contract of infielder Keston Hiura from Albuquerque. Schaeffer said Hiura, who reached double figures in homers for the Milwaukee Brewers three times from 2019 through 2022, would likely see the bulk of the playing time at first, though Kyle Farmer drew the start at the position Saturday. The Rockies also designated infielder Aaron Schunk for assignment. ___ AP MLB:
Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Michael Toglia's RBI triple
Michael Toglia gets the Rockies on the board as he lines an RBI triple into right-center field in the 4th inning
Yahoo
24-05-2025
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- Yahoo
Yankees cruise to a 13-1 win over Rockies behind a 10-run 5th inning and Fried's efficient outing
New York Yankees' Paul Goldschmidt singles against Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Kyle Freeland in the third inning of a baseball game Saturday, May 24, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) Fans applaud as New York Yankees' Aaron Judge circles the bases after hitting a solo home run off Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Kyle Freeland in the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, May 24, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Kyle Freeland calls for a new ball after giving up a solo home run to New York Yankees' Aaron Judge in the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, May 24, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) New York Yankees catcher Austin Wells, left, confers with starting pitcher Max Fried, right, after Fried gave up an RBI triple to Colorado Rockies' Michael Toglia in the fourth inning of a baseball game Saturday, May 24, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) New York Yankees' Aaron Judge heads back to the dugout after touching home plate following his solo home run off Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Kyle Freeland in the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, May 24, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) New York Yankees' Aaron Judge heads back to the dugout after touching home plate following his solo home run off Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Kyle Freeland in the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, May 24, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) New York Yankees' Paul Goldschmidt singles against Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Kyle Freeland in the third inning of a baseball game Saturday, May 24, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) Fans applaud as New York Yankees' Aaron Judge circles the bases after hitting a solo home run off Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Kyle Freeland in the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, May 24, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Kyle Freeland calls for a new ball after giving up a solo home run to New York Yankees' Aaron Judge in the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, May 24, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) New York Yankees catcher Austin Wells, left, confers with starting pitcher Max Fried, right, after Fried gave up an RBI triple to Colorado Rockies' Michael Toglia in the fourth inning of a baseball game Saturday, May 24, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) New York Yankees' Aaron Judge heads back to the dugout after touching home plate following his solo home run off Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Kyle Freeland in the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, May 24, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) DENVER (AP) — Max Fried threw 7 1/3 sharp innings and the New York Yankees broke open a tight game with a 10-run fifth to beat the reeling Colorado Rockies 13-1 on Saturday. Fried (7-0) tied Arizona's Brandon Pfaadt for the major league lead in wins. The Yankees lefty scattered six hits and gave up one run in an efficient outing in which he only tossed 83 pitches. Fried has allowed two earned runs or less in all 11 of his starts this season. Advertisement A game tied at 1 turned into a rout when the Yankees got the offense cranked up in the fifth. They sent 14 to the plate in collecting seven hits, drawing three walks — one intentional to Aaron Judge — producing two sacrifice flies and reaching on starter Kyle Freeland's throwing error. The big blows were a pair of two-run doubles from Austin Wells and Trent Grisham. At one point, second baseman Adael Amador threw his glove in the air to try to thwart Paul Goldschmidt's RBI single over his head. The inning ended on a strikeout of Judge, who hit his major league-leading 18th homer in the first inning. The Yankees had a season-high 21 hits. Freeland (0-7) allowed eight runs — four earned — over 4 2/3 innings. He has gone 14 straight starts without a win. Advertisement The Rockies fell to 9-43 record, the worst record through 52 games since 1901. They beat the Yankees 3-2 on Friday and have a chance to capture their first series of the season with a win Sunday. Key moment The 10-run inning matched the biggest frame this season for the Yankees, who also scored that many in the seventh against San Diego on May 6. Key stat The Yankees are 6-10 all-time at Coors Field. Up next Yankees righty Will Warren (3-2, 4.05) throws Sunday, while the Rockies turn to righty Antonio Senzatela (1-8, 6.34). ___ AP MLB:
New York Times
09-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
The Rockies Horror Road Show: Could Colorado be first team to hit under .200 on the road?
Editor's note: This is a bonus Weird and Wild column. To read more Weird and Wild from the past week, go here. I don't know about you, but I'm starting to worry that those Colorado Rockies might not make the playoffs. I hate to jump to conclusions this early — but holy Michael Toglia! It doesn't seem as if it's going that great at scenic Coors Field. Advertisement It's only seven months since the 2024 Chicago White Sox displaced the 1962 New York Mets and took their rightful place as The Worst Team of Modern Times (41-121). So it would have been helpful to have a few decades to let that sink in. Instead, the Rockies are on a Sox-ian pace that you might want to start tracking. Here is how their first 37 games of this season compare with the other titans in the Not Exactly Winningest Teams Ever derby. 2025 Rockies — 6-31 … minus-109 run differential … 18.5 games out of first place … 13.5 games out of next-to-last place. 2024 White Sox — 8-27 … minus-88 run differential … 15 games out of first … 10 out of next-to-last. 1962 Mets — 12-23 … minus-50 run differential … 13 games out of first … actually in next-to-last (a half-game ahead of the Cubs). 1899 Cleveland Spiders — 8-27 … minus-136 run differential … 18 1/2 games out of first … 1 1/2 games out of next-to-last. True, that isn't the most upbeat chart ever to appear in this column. But hey, you know what teams always say at times like this: There's a lot of baseball still to be played. So while it's too late for those Spiders, Mets and White Sox to undo their messy starts, the Rockies are still breathing. Except that record isn't even the Weirdest or Wildest part of their season. Here comes that part: A friend of mine in baseball texted me these eight eye-popping words this week: Have you checked the Rockies road hitting stats?? Oh, I've checked, all right. But my policy on these things is, when I get a question with multiple question marks, it means I need to make the world aware of stuff like this. So if you're ready for those Rockies road stats, here they come. .189/.248/.289 … OPS+ of 57 For some reason, that doesn't seem real Blake Street Bomber-ish. But before I let you in on the history that could be at stake, here's some helpful perspective, comparing the Rockies' road numbers with the offensive seasons of a few 'hitters' from the past whose names might sound familiar. (*road stats only) So you might infer from that list that the Rocky Road version of this team has been hitting kinda like a pitcher. Is that what I was hinting at there? Huh. It's possible, I guess. But also … No team has ever hit under .200 on the road! Well, by ever, we're only referring to post-1900 baseball. But in case you're curious, the record for lowest road batting average in the modern era is a dazzling .203, by Topsy Hartsel's 1908 Philadelphia A's. It was the dead-ball era, but still … That A's team somehow scored only 192 runs on the road all season — in 79 games. And that record seems unbreakable … except for the fact that the Rockies are on pace to score only 179! So could that actually happen, here in the 21st century? Advertisement The Cubs scored 56 runs on their first road trip of the season (seven games), not even counting that journey to Tokyo. The Rockies have scored 42 away from Coors Field all season. So can they really obliterate those records by a team that last played baseball 117 years ago? For the record, I'll take the 'over.' But yikes! GO DEEPER Did the Rockies just have the worst month in baseball history? GO DEEPER From mediocrity to futility: Rockies set MLB record for most losses in April (Top photo of Michael Toglia: Hunter Martin / Getty Images)
Los Angeles Times
17-04-2025
- Sport
- Los Angeles Times
Bobby Miller struggles, but Dodgers complete sweep of Rockies
One year and three weeks ago, Bobby Miller was at the peak of his young major league career. After a promising rookie campaign in 2023, the hard-throwing right-hander had made the Dodgers' 2024 opening day rotation. In his season debut, he dominated the St. Louis Cardinals with 11 strikeouts over six scoreless innings. And as a former top prospect in the organization's pitching-rich farm system, his ascent in the big leagues seemed to be just beginning. One year and three weeks later, he now faces a long climb back. Called up from triple-A Oklahoma City for a spot start Wednesday, Miller's first MLB start of 2025 mirrored the struggles that plagued him over the rest of 2024. Over a woeful three-inning outing, the 26-year-old gave up six runs to the middling Colorado Rockies. Despite striking out seven batters, he was knocked around for a five-spot in the third, punctuated by a hanging curveball Michael Toglia hit for a grand slam. The Dodgers still won, riding a seven-run first inning to an 8-7 victory that completed a three-game series sweep at Dodger Stadium this week. But Miller's implosion was another troubling sign for the Dodgers' young depth options on the mound. Like Justin Wrobleski and Landon Knack before him, his return to the majors inspired little confidence. In a rare opportunity to make an impression on the Dodgers' big-league roster, he instead faltered in a frustratingly familiar script. Two innings into Wednesday's start, Miller appeared to be in full control. He had limited damage in a three-hit first inning, striking out the other three batters he faced to give up just one run. He breezed through the second, stranding a two-out single with two more strikeouts. And in between, he waited in the dugout for the 25 minutes while the Dodgers launched an assault on Rockies starter Germán Márquez. Shohei Ohtani blasted a 448-foot leadoff home run to the top of the right field pavilion. Freddie Freeman also found the right field seats for a solo blast two batters later. From there, the Dodgers just kept coming, with Andy Pages singling two runs home with the bases loaded, Austin Barnes tacking on two more with a double that marked his first hit of the season, and Ohtani collecting another RBI in his second at-bat of the inning with a base hit. All told, the Dodgers scored seven times, had nine batters reach base and chased Márquez from the game after 37 dismal pitches. It seemingly set Miller up to cruise through the rest of his night. Instead, it all came unglued in the top of the third. After responding to a leadoff single with his sixth strikeout of the game, Miller lost his feel for, what up to that point, had been an effective curveball. He hung one to Kyle Farmer for a single. He missed with two to Hunter Goodman to walk the bases loaded. Then, in a 1-and-2 count to Michael Toglia, he fired another that stayed over the heart of the plate. Toglia unloaded for a grand slam. Miller hid his frustration behind a stoic face. So often last year, Miller endured starts like this, unable to build upon his early-season momentum in what became a forgettable campaign. Following that dazzling debut against the Cardinals, he yielded seven runs over 5 ⅔ innings in his next two starts. Shoulder inflammation landed him on the injured list for two months after that. And once he returned, he never looked the same, stumbling to a 9.34 ERA over his final 10 outings. During that second-half stretch, Miller was dogged by a nagging knee issue. But wild command (he walked 30 batters in 56 innings on the season) and lack of execution with his breaking pitches (highlighted by a .357 batting average against his curveball) were equally troublesome problems. On Wednesday, they resurfaced again. An at-bat after Toglia's grand slam, Miller fell behind Mickey Moniak by throwing two changeups that bounced to the backstop. Then, with Barnes holding his catcher's mitt low in the zone, Miller fired a fastball that stayed up and over the plate. Moniak hit it the other way for a solo home run. What had once been a 7-1 lead was trimmed to 7-6. Luckily for Miller, the bullpen picked up the slack against the woebegone Rockies (3-15) — including three innings of one-run relief from swingman Ben Casparius, who provided a bridge to Alex Vesia and Tanner Scott to close it out. The Dodgers' offense, meanwhile, provided just enough breathing room with a fifth-inning RBI single from Pages. The question now: What will the Dodgers do next Wednesday, when there will once again be a hole in their rotation? Tony Gonsolin is still expected to make one more triple-A rehab start before returning from his back injury. Knack (who had a 7.27 ERA in three outings this year) and Wrobleski (who yielded eight runs in his lone start last week) have already been optioned. Given Wednesday's results, Miller might be facing the same fate. Before the game, manager Dave Roberts had remained bullish on his long-term potential, reflecting back at where he was one year and three weeks earlier. 'He was just really thriving,' Roberts recalled. 'As far as the upside potential, absolutely [it's still there].' Wednesday, however, was a reminder of how far he's slipped trying to reach it.
