DENVER -- The Rockies’ Charlie Blackmon stood at second base and clapped his batting gloved hands together exactly once. The occasion of Blackmon’s eighth-inning two-run double that provided a 4-2 victory over the defending World Series champion Rangers at Coors Field called for more.

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DENVER -- Double-A Hartford outfielder and Rockies No. 10 prospect Benny Montgomery, the team’s top pick in the 2021 MLB Draft, underwent surgery Friday to repair a left shoulder injury, Rockies director of player development Chris Forbes said. Montgomery, 21, sustained the injury while diving for a ball in the

This story was excerpted from Thomas Harding’s Rockies Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. DENVER -- By the fifth inning of their 9-1 victory over the Giants on Thursday afternoon, the game was headed in a comfortable direction

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DENVER -- In a Rockies’ season that would reduce anyone’s power of positive thinking, shortstop Ezequiel Tovar has enough to lift himself and the rest of the club. Tovar singled, tripled and doubled -- the latter two extra-base hits occurring in the Rockies’ seven-run fourth inning -- and helped pull

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The top prospect in the 2024 Draft has solidified his status as the premier power in college baseball's bat-ball coefficient of restitution era. Georgia slugger Charlie Condon launched his 34th home run of the season in Thursday's 14-10 win over South Carolina, which marked the highest single-season total since the

DENVER -- In college at the University of San Diego more than a decade ago, Kris Bryant sought out enough slights to jot on about 20 index cards. "This guy's a 5 o'clock hitter … he can't do this or that," he recalled. Believing it was not the way to

Big league closers can come from all areas of the pitching world. Some are guys who have always been relievers, from college all the way up to the big leagues. Some were starters whose power stuff (and perhaps lack of command) were better suited for shorter stints coming out of

DENVER -- Rockies pitcher Dakota Hudson couldn’t find the strike zone and the offense couldn’t produce runs. The combination of those two ills led to a 5-0 loss to the Giants at Coors Field on Tuesday night. The worst start in Rockies history reached 8-27. Here are takeaways from the

After a multi-season hiatus, Crooked Numbers returns with a heaping portion of Minor League Baseball on-field oddities and absurdities. This edition, covering the start of the season through the end of April, has a disproportionate number of items from the Triple-A level. As for why that is, who knows? Maybe

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PITTSBURGH -- On Friday afternoon, hours before a victory over the Pirates sparked hopes -- which were dashed the next two days -- Rockies general manager Bill Schmidt gave reasons his struggling club hasn’t met its expectations, or even the low public forecasts. “We’re not performing -- we’re not hitting,

Travis Bazzana's power bat seemingly never takes a break -- even in the rare Monday college baseball game. Just one day after going deep three times and setting Oregon State's single-season home run record, the No. 2 Draft prospect knocked another two homers in the Beavers’ 20-12 win over Gonzaga.

PITTSBURGH -- Brendan Rodgers softly recited his batting box-witness scouting report of Pirates right-hander Jared Jones -- a stellar young pitcher whom the struggling Rockies never really figured out in their 1-0 loss at PNC Park on Saturday afternoon. Jones, MLB Pipeline's No. 56 overall prospect, dominated his seventh Major

Braiden Ward is not the first player to successfully swipe six bags in a single pro baseball game. That feat was matched just a year ago by Red Sox outfielder Ceddanne Rafaela, and has occurred in five separate instances in AL/NL history -- starting with Eddie Collins, who did it

PITTSBURGH -- Ryan McMahon didn’t immediately look beyond the right-field bleachers at PNC Park on Friday night. He didn’t have to. His sixth-inning leadoff home run in the Rockies’ 3-2 victory over the Pirates bounced into the Allegheny River, he was sure. Instead, he looked toward his happy dugout to

This story was excerpted from Thomas Harding’s Rockies Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox Double-A Hartford left-handed starting pitcher Carson Palmquist learned to compete before he learned to succeed -- and that’s the proper order. Palmquist, 23, the

Welcome to Promo Preview, a monthly compendium of Minor League Baseball promotions to look forward to. May's highlights include nonagenarian icons, Mardi Gras sweets, reinterpretations of local disasters and, of course, much more. Let's get to it.

You know it’s really Draft season when the first mock draft is out. Between now and July 14, when the 2024 Draft begins, Jim Callis and I will be providing prognostications of the first round on a fairly regular basis with the hope that our final mocks the night before

MIAMI -- The mood in the Rockies’ clubhouse on Thursday afternoon was somber. Colorado had just dropped its fifth straight game – a 5-4 walk-off loss in 10 innings. It was the second such setback in three games against the Marlins at loanDepot park. So, there was a team meeting

MIAMI -- Prior to the series opener on Tuesday, manager Bud Black was asked what it would take for the Rockies to finally hold a lead the entirety of a game. His response was simple: It will take at least two-thirds of the lineup to be really clicking on all