The Colorado Rockies (38-57) continue their series against the San Francisco Giants (39-54) tonight at Oracle Park, their final series before the All-Star break.<\/p>\n
Last night was the kind of game worth forgetting. Colorado managed five hits and lost 8-2<\/a>.<\/p>\n The larger stretch has still been encouraging. Colorado is 16-19 with a minus-three run differential since June 1. During that span, the offense has hit .278\/.354\/.494 with a 117 wRC+<\/a>, while the bullpen has posted a 4.90 ERA \u2014 including a 1.64 mark since July 1.<\/p>\n The rotation has been the clear lag, carrying a 6.23 ERA over the same stretch.<\/p>\n Tanner Gordon<\/a> gets an opportunity to try to turn that around tonight.<\/p>\n The right-hander enters at 0-2 with a 6.95 ERA, 1.59 WHIP and 46 strikeouts over 45.1 innings. Gordon works with a four-seamer around 93 mph, an upper-80s slider, a mid-80s changeup and a slower curveball.<\/p>\n He threw his four-seamer on half of his 94 pitches against San Francisco five days ago<\/a>. It produced four strikeouts, but the Giants went 4-for-7 when putting it in play, with a 95.8 mph average exit velocity, and hit four home runs overall. His slider produced more manageable contact and a 32% called-strike-plus-whiff rate.<\/p>\n This will be Gordon\u2019s fifth start on the season and his second road start. He has a 3.32 ERA in 19 total innings away from Coors Field.<\/p>\n Veteran left-hander Robbie Ray<\/a> starts for San Francisco and enters at 8-6 with a 3.45 ERA, 1.23 WHIP and 86 strikeouts over 101.2 innings.<\/p>\n Ray has allowed just three earned runs over his last 28.1 innings. He has deemphasized his four-seam fastball, leaning more on his sinker, slider, changeup, and knuckle curve. Left-handed hitters tend to see more sliders, while right-handers get a broader mix.<\/p>\n Colorado has already seen Ray twice. The Rockies made him grind through 96 pitches over four innings of one-run ball on May 31<\/a>, then struck early on July 4<\/a> when Cole Carrigg<\/a> launched a first-inning three-run homer<\/a> before Ray settled in and completed six innings.<\/p>\n Carrigg remains one of Colorado\u2019s hottest hitters, with Jake McCarthy<\/a> and Kyle Karros<\/a> also helping carry the recent offensive surge.<\/p>\n The path is still straightforward: Gordon needs to keep the damage contained and hand a close game to an offense and bullpen that have given the Rockies a much better chance lately.<\/p>\n First Pitch: 8:15 p.m. MDT<\/p>\n Radio: KOA 850 AM\/94.1 FM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Rockies (38-57) continue their series against the San Francisco Giants (39-54) tonight at Oracle Park, their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[140364,119433,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-394199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-colorado-rockies-discussion","tag-colorado-rockies-game-information","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}