Chris Sale’s comeback, Marcell Ozuna’s MVP case and life without Ronald Acuña Jr. & Spencer Strider x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

The last time Chris Sale started against the Rockies in 2019, he struck out 17 in seven innings with Boston at Fenway Park. Colorado was playing the first game on the road after a homestand - similar situation - and eventually struck out a club record 24 times in 11 innings.

Feels like an anti-Yankees graphic that ended up putting the Rockies in the crosshairs.

Rockies lose 3-0, their seventh-straight loss in Atlanta dating back to 2022. Kyle Freeland battles through five with blister issues again, allowing one earned run. Ezequiel Tovar has the lone extra-base hit, a triple off Chris Sale who strikes out nine over seven scoreless.

The Colorado Rockies have been eliminated from the 2024 MLB Postseason.

Whit Merrifield did not mince words last night after taking a 94.5 mph fastball from Jeff Criswell to the head. “There’s no regard for throwing up and in… Without being over dramatic, that was my life on the line. I’m sick of it. It’s ridiculous.”

Georgia native Bradley Blalock gives up four runs in the first to Atlanta. #Rockies respond with two run on an RBI-triple from Sam Hilliard against his former team and an RBI-double by Georgia Tech alum Charlie Blackmon.

Instead of buying a pre-owned 2020 Chevy Equinox, someone actually spent $17,000 on a Shohei Ohtani golden bobblehead.

Mammoth game-tying home run in the Tokyo Dome for Coco Montes, his first with the Yomiuri Giants.

Since 2018, #Rockies have drafted/signed and developed 6 starting pitchers: Karl Kauffmann 2023 Ryan Feltner 2021 Antonio Santos 2020 Ryan Castellani 2020 Rico García 2019 Peter Lambert 2019 Only Feltner and Lambert have started 4+ games or thrown 36+ innings in the Majors.

Bradley Blalock walked 6 batters during his five innings of work against Atlanta tonight. It's the 12th time under Bud Black (since 2017) a Rockies pitcher has walked 6+. Believe it or not, that happened 12 times in 1999. Clearly, Jim Leyland did NOT want to go to his bullpen.

#Rockies Seth Halvorsen strikes out Marcell Ozuna looking, his second punchout of the night. Halvorsen has three scoreless outings under his belt for a total of 2.2 innings pitched. Good start to the career for the 7th round pick in the 2023 MLB Draft.

The Colorado Cannons don’t necessarily need a third member, but if Nolan Jones and Brenton Doyle want some more company in the outfield… Yanquiel Fernandez would more than fill that role for the Rockies.

#Rockies Sterlin Thompson’s third hit of the night is a walk-off RBI-single that extends the Yard Goats winning streak to seven games.

#Rockies Trevor Story becomes the first shortstop in franchise history to hit three home runs in a game on this date in 2018. Story’s second homer is estimated to have traveled 505 ft, the longest homer measured since the introduction of Statcast.

#Rockies select the contract of RHP Jaden Hill. Hill was taken in the 2nd round of the 2021 MLB Draft out of LSU and is Colorado’s 20th-best prospects, according to MLB Pipeline. LHP Evan Justice gets optioned to Triple-A and RHP Dakota Hudson moves to the 60-day IL.

RHP Jaden Hill will wear no. 0 for Colorado. He becomes the second player in #Rockies history to do so following Adam Ottavino (2012-18).

Fans of the New York Mets have a new favorite player: #Rockies LHP Austin Gomber. Gomber limits Atlanta to one run in eight innings of work to give Colorado the 3-1 win and pull the Mets into a tie for the final NL Wild Card spot.