#Rockies miss opportunity at first four-game series win against the Dodgers since 2018 and lose 12-3.

Colorado manages to split the series with first-place Los Angeles, but gets outscored 28 to 17 in the process.

The Colorado Rockies now have a 0.1% chance to make the playoffs according to FanGraphs following consecutive victories over the Los Angeles Dodgers to put them at 9-13 (.409).

The first overturned challenge by a pitcher in #Rockies history was actually by accident, according RHP Michael Lorenzen.

“I’m thinking, ‘Goody, what do you think?’ I got to come up with a different signal.”

#Rockies Kyle Karros has two career home runs and they’ve both come against the Los Angeles Dodgers, the club for which his father Eric played for 12 years.

“I don’t think anything different happens when I play the Dodgers. It just happens to be that way.”

The 2026 Colorado Rockies have taken 2 of 3 against each of the 2025 World Series combatants Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays.

Troy Johnston lays out for the final out to preserve a 9-6 #Rockies win over the Dodgers. First time winning consecutive games vs. LA since 2022.

Edouard Julien: 3-for-5 with 3 RBI
Mickey Moniak: 2-for-5 with HR, 3 RBI
Kyle Karros: 2-for-3 with HR, BB

After opening the season with 13.0 consecutive scoreless innings, #Rockies RHP Antonio Senzatela has finally allowed a run...

And it comes at a very inopportune time.

RBI-single from Alex Freeland gives the Dodgers a 4-3 lead in the sixth.

#Rockies Kyle Karros has his first home run (448 ft) of the season, a solo blast against the Dodgers

It’s the second career homer for Karros, who has hit both against his father’s former club.

Michael Lorenzen becomes the second #Rockies pitcher to challenges a call.

The call is overturned and ruled a strike.

Lorenzen becomes only the 12th pitcher in MLB to record an overturned call and first for Colorado.

It took the 20th game of the season for Los Angeles Dodgers to lose their first game against a club from the National League.

That NL team:

The Colorado Rockies

Rockies battle back to win after going down 2-0 to the Dodgers on two pitches.

1B Troy Johnston goes 3-for-4 with two doubles and runs batted in to help erase his error to start the game.

Ryan Feltner settled in nicely after the first inning and the bullpen goes 3.1 scoreless.

Two pitches into the game and the Dodgers have a 2-0 lead.

#Rockies Ryan Feltner got a grounder against Shohei Ohtani, but a Troy Johnston error erased the out. Kyle Tucker followed with a second deck shot.

In a rare matchup of a Japanese #Rockies pitcher against an opposing batter from Japan, Shohei Ohtani doubles to right field against RHP Tomoyuki Sugano to start the game.

#Rockies RHP Chase Dollander looked outstanding on Thursday night against the Astros:

5.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 9 K

Since debuting in 2025, Dollander has a 3.51 ERA in 14 games away from Coors Field.

Good news, Bad news for the #Rockies rotation:

LHP Jose Quintana comes off from the 15-day IL (hamstring strain) to start tonight in Houston.

LHP Kyle Freeland goes on the IL with left shoulder inflammation, retroactive to April 13.

#Rockies RHP Antonio Senzatela finally allows a baserunner to Houston after retiring 12 consecutive Astros.

Senzatela has not given up a run on just four hits in 11.1 innings with 14 strikeouts in 2026 so far. He’s looked like a completely different pitcher this season.

#Rockies Hunter Goodman has his second home run of the night in his first game behind the plate since exiting early on April 9 with a middle finger laceration.

That was him. Padres hitting coach from 2016-18.

What a difference a road trip can make.

#Rockies roared into the weekend at .500 (6-6) with big news about the Penner Sports Group joining ownership.

Then came a pair of walk-off losses to start a four-game sweep at the hands of the Padres. Back on a 100-loss pace (6-10, .375).

It’s a two-homer night for #Rockies Mickey Moniak, who moves into a tie for 2nd-most in MLB with five home runs.

Moniak has two multi-homer performances this year (also: 4/5) and two in his last four games at Petco Park (also: 9/14/25).

Germán Márquez, now with the Padres and pitching against his former club for the first time, surrenders a first-inning homer to Mickey Moniak.

Moniak leads the #Rockies with four home runs in his first nine games of 2026.

On this date in 2018, #Rockies Nolan Arenado took umbrage with the Padres’ Luis Perdomo, charged the mound and sparked a bench-clearing incident.

Arenado, Gerardo Parra and Germán Márquez from Colorado were ejected as were Perdomo and A.J. Ellis from San Diego.

#Rockies manager Warren Schaeffer has used his bench a lot more than his predecessor, Bud Black.

Schaeffer pushes the right buttons and gets a pair of pinch-hit, RBI-singles from Hunter Goodman and Jordan Beck in the 8th to tie it 2-2 with the Padres.

Will the Penner Sports Group enable the Colorado Rockies to invest more in infrastructure and roster?

We’ll all have to wait and see. If so and they want to make a big splash, there’s one player that would make for quite the cannonball this offseason:

Bo Bichette, son of Dante

Greg and Carrie Penner of the Penner Sports Group, owners of the Denver Broncos, on becoming the largest minority owner of the Colorado Rockies:

“While our focus remains firmly on the Broncos, we look forward to being supportive, long-term partners of the Rockies and Major League Baseball.”

In case you didn’t stay up until nearly midnight…

#Rockies unable to get above .500 as they lose to the Padres on a walk-off grand slam in extra innings to snap a four-game win streak.

#Rockies RHP Chase Dollander has looked rather good in his last two outings, both against clubs who made the 2025 MLB Postseason (PHI, SD):

8.2 IP
8 H
2 R (2.08 ERA)
2 BB (1.15 WHIP)
9 K

#Rockies Hunter Goodman was not happy about getting plunked up and in (95.1 mph) by Randy Vazquez of the Padres.

Goodman exits the 1-1 game in San Diego with a bloody right middle finger.

Haven’t seen this kind of emotion from Colorado in a while. A good kind of frustration for once.

Colorado is 6-6 and one game back of a Wild Card. However, just two NL teams (SF, WAS) have less wins.

Why? The NL is dominating the AL in interleague play.

Only two AL clubs (NYY, CLE) have a winning record in against the NL. And only two NL clubs (PHI, SF) are below .500 against the AL.

One of the most interesting parts to the Rockies four-game winning streak:

A different reliever not only earned the save in each game, but it was their first save of the season.

4/5 vs. PHI, Vodnik
4/6 vs. HOU, Mejia
4/7 vs. HOU, Senzatela
4/8 vs. HOU, Agnos