DENVER (AP) \u2014 The Colorado Rockies designated starter Michael Lorenzen for assignment Monday in a season in which the right-hander has gone 3-11 with a 7.08 ERA.<\/p>\n
Lorenzen hasn’t notched a win since June 27.<\/p>\n
The Rockies signed the 34-year-old Lorenzen to a one-year deal in January. He was coming off a season when he struck out a career-high 127 in 141 2\/3 innings for the Kansas City Royals. <\/p>\n
\u201cI love Mike. We developed a really good relationship,\u201d manager Warren Schaeffer said Monday before a three-game series against the NL West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers. \u201cIt\u2019s just time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Righty Tanner Gordon will fill Lorenzen’s spot in the rotation. Gordon has appeared in 17 games this season, including five starts, and has a 5.55 ERA.<\/p>\n
\u201cTG\u2019s been awesome,\u201d Schaeffer said. \u201cJust keep doing what he\u2019s doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
All-Star catcher Hunter Goodman was out of the lineup for a fourth game due to inflammation in his left shoulder.<\/p>\n
\u201cStill day-to-day,\u201d Schaeffer said. \u201cWe’ll re-evaluate tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
To take Lorenzen’s place on the roster, Colorado recalled righty TJ Shook from Triple-A Albuquerque. Shook has made four appearances with the Rockies this season, posting a 9.53 ERA in 5 2\/3 innings. He has 11 saves for the Isotopes this season.<\/p>\n
He’s open to any sort of role.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve been told I\u2019ve been a Swiss Army knife in the past. So whether that\u2019s long relief or short, closing, starting, I\u2019ve started a lot of games,\u201d Shook said. \u201cHonestly, it helps me stay on my toes. I kind of come in with the same mindset \u2014 just go out there and pitch, throw up some zeros and get ahead of guys.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shook, 28, was taken in the Rule 5 draft from the New York Mets last offseason.<\/p>\n
\u201cShooky is in a position where he\u2019s up and down right now,\u201d Schaeffer said. \u201cThose guys need to do whatever you ask them to do. That’s their role. He accepts that with vigor.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Pat Graham, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER (AP) \u2014 The Colorado Rockies designated starter Michael Lorenzen for assignment Monday in a season in which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-862391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}