Colorado interim supervisor Warren Schaeffer had a recreation — and a celebration — that he’ll always remember Saturday.
The shaving cream on his face was a useless giveaway.
After the Rockies overcame a five-run deficit for a 14-12 victory over Arizona in Phoenix, Schaeffer was packed into an tools cart and rolled into the bathe room. Let the dousing start.
“Age-old baseball custom,” mentioned Schaeffer, who bought his first victory in his fifth recreation since being promoted to switch supervisor Bud Black final Sunday.
“They take you into the bathe and pour all types of liquids on you. No matter. ‘Chivi’ (Angel Chivilli) had Listerine he was dumping on me. Something goes. It was superior.”
The Rockies will try and construct on what Schaeffer known as “an exceptionally memorable” first win to earn their first collection victory of the season on Sunday.
Rookie right-hander Chase Dollander (2-4, 6.88 ERA) is to oppose Diamondbacks’ right-hander Merrill Kelly (4-2, 3.71).
The Rockies have misplaced their first 14 collection and are 8-37. Regardless of the victory, they nonetheless are off to the worst begin in trendy main league historical past (since 1901).
Colorado had season highs in runs and hits (19) whereas overcoming an 11-6 deficit within the sixth to interrupt a four-game dropping streak. They’d misplaced 12 of 13.
Jordan Beck had three hits together with two of Colorado’s 5 homers, and Hunter Goodman and Kyle Farmer every homered and had 4 RBIs. Ezequiel Tovar had a career-high 5 hits, together with a homer, in his second recreation after lacking a month with a left hip damage.
“My foremost focus was to place the ball in play and assist the group get the victory,” Tovar mentioned.
The Diamondbacks, in the meantime, misplaced an opportunity for his or her first three-game profitable streak in a month when the bullpen gave up eight runs in 4 innings.
Aid won’t be distant. Nearer Justin Martinez may very well be activated as quickly because the three-game collection on the Los Angeles Dodgers that begins Monday, supervisor Torey Lovullo mentioned.
Martinez threw 10 pitches in a single inning of an Arizona League recreation Saturday and threw one other 10 within the bullpen. The Diamondbacks are debating whether or not to ship him straight to the majors or give him a brief rehab task at Triple-A Reno.
“He is getting very shut,” Lovullo mentioned.
Kelly has proven no latest indicators of the hamstring cramping points that pressured him out of two video games earlier this season with consecutive high quality begins in opposition to the New York Mets and San Francisco Giants the previous two occasions out.
Kelly went seven innings for the primary time this season in a 2-1 victory on the Giants final Monday and is 3-1 with a 2.36 ERA in his previous seven begins. He’s 7-3 with a 3.51 ERA in 15 begins in opposition to the Rockies. Tovar is 7-for-16 with two solo homers in opposition to Kelly.
Dollander, the Rockies’ first-round draft decide in 2023, made one begin at Triple-A Albuquerque this season earlier than being promoted. He enters after his greatest begin of the season, a 2-1 loss at Texas on Monday by which he gave up two runs on one hit — a two-run homer by Wyatt Langford — in six innings.
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