Rockies blanked by Guardians, lose series in 80th defeat of season

With one hung pitch in the opening inning the Rockies margin for error on Wednesday vanished Guardians DH David Fry took Rockies southpaw Kyle Freeland deep for a two-run homer in the first and Cleveland never looked back to beat the Rockies - and take the series too at Progressive Field After rallying to beat Cleveland with a four-run ninth on Monday the Rockies got crushed - on Tuesday and then evidenced little life on Wednesday to finish their road trip - Colorado also won the series opener in Baltimore to begin last weekend before losing the next two to drop that series Wednesday s defeat dropped the Rockies to - on the year pacing the Rockies to finish - After winning consecutive series at home to start the second half a suboptimal road trip has the club continuing to flirt with the modern loss record of set by the White Sox last year Freeland only lasted three innings because he was ill The Rockies bullpen mostly held the fort for the bulk of the match but the offense was nowhere to be determined as the Rockies struck out times and only mustered three hits Freeland honestly gave us everything he had in the tank interim manager Warren Schaeffer notified reporters Even sending him back out for the third was honestly pushing it Jaden Hill yielded a sacrifice fly to Brayan Rocchio in the fourth to extend Cleveland s lead to - After that Juan Mejia turned in a strong long relief performance with three shutout innings no hits no walks and four strikeouts With that Mejia became the first Rockies reliever to pitch at least three innings and not allow a run hit or walk since Chad Bettis did so in April It was a career-long outing for the right-handed rookie Related Articles Rockies business Tyler Kinley to Braves for pitching prospect Austin Smith Tanner Gordon hit around as Rockies dominated in Championship in Cleveland Rockies bat around in ninth for comeback win over Guardians in series opener Rockies pitcher Biembenido Brito and free agent outfielder Pablo Abad suspended for drug tests Renck vs Keeler Ryan McMahon is gone Who should Rockies business next That was unbelievable by Mejia Schaeffer declared That kept us right in the tournament He was nasty and he s only gone two-plus innings once this year He exhibited particular real guts and he was efficient with his pitches Cleveland absolutely scored again off Victor Vodnik in the eighth Kyle Manzardo who homered twice on Tuesday had an RBI single Then the next batter Carlos Santana doubled to plate another run to push the amount to - Unlike in the series opener there would be no ninth-inning magic Cade Smith who blew the contest on Monday set down the Rockies in order It sealed the th shutout for the Colorado offense this year Rookie corner infielder Warming Bernabel had one of the Rockies three hits as he continues his hot start to his career after debuting in Baltimore last Saturday He is hitting with two homers two doubles three RBIs and a OPS in five games Want more Rockies news Sign up for the Rockies Insider to get all our MLB analysis