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<\/p>\nThe Rockies don\u2019t return to Petco Park again this season, but Cole Carrigg is far from done with San Diego.<\/p>\n
Colorado\u2019s 24-year-old rookie expects to make San Diego his home this offseason.<\/p>\n
Maybe Pacific Beach. Maybe a North County coastal spot.<\/p>\n
Why not?<\/p>\n
He made himself at home at San Diego State before becoming a second-round pick of the Rockies three years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been awesome,\u201d the center fielder said of his first trip to Petco Park as a major leaguer. \u201c \u2026 Last offseason, I was back home (in Turlock), but I always come down to visit all my college roommates and stuff. I\u2019ve got a lot of buddies who still live here, and a lot of them were at the game (Tuesday) night, along with some family.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a good time.\u201d<\/p>\n
So has his first call-up to the majors.<\/p>\n
Carrigg is hitting .296\/.373\/.519 with five homers, 26 RBIs and three stolen bases in 41 games since the Rockies called him up for his big-league debut in June. That includes going 3-for-4 with a run scored on Tuesday after being crushed for ticket requests for his first game back at a park he frequented while playing for the Aztecs. He went 0-for-2 with a walk in Wednesday\u2019s matinee.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe came to our fair share of games,\u201d Carrigg said. \u201cIf we had an off day or an early practice or something, we\u2019d definitely take the trolley over and catch some games.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cIt\u2019s different being on the field rather than in the stands. It\u2019s a different feeling, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
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SDSU athletics<\/p>\n
Cole Carrigg played three seasons at San Diego State before the Colorado Rockies made him their second-round pick in the 2023 draft. (SDSU athletics)<\/p>\n
Carrigg hit .333\/.399\/.477 with seven homers, 90 RBIs and 39 steals in three seasons (2021-23) with the Aztecs. He played every position outside of right field \u2014 yes, even catcher \u2014 before the Rockies drafted him.<\/p>\n
He went on to post an .851 OPS in the low minors in his first full year as a pro in 2024, reached Double-A in 2025 (.711 OPS), played for Israel this spring in the World Baseball Classic and was hitting .338\/.414\/.529 with six homers in 57 games to start the year at Triple-A Albuquerque.<\/p>\n
The June call-up allowed him nearly a month to establish himself in the Rockies\u2019 upstart lineup before his first big-league stops in California earlier this month, first at Dodger Stadium and then at Oracle Park.<\/p>\n
Carrigg said the ticket requests in San Francisco trumped what he had to weather the last two days in San Diego.<\/p>\n
\u201cSan Francisco was \u2014 there was too much going on there,\u201d Carrigg said with a laugh. \u201cI wasn\u2019t a huge fan of it. There were a lot of people, random people, coming out of the woodwork. I don\u2019t even know who they were.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Colorado Rockies\u2019 Cole Carrigg, left, is tagged out by San Diego Padres shortstop Xander Bogaerts, caught trying to steal second base during the first inning of a baseball game Tuesday, July 28, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo\/Gregory Bull)<\/p>\n
Perhaps it\u2019s another reason to make San Diego his next home away from home after making himself at home so far in the majors.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s definitely been a good transition for me,\u201d Carrigg said. \u201cObviously, it\u2019s a hard game, but I think Double-A and Triple-A prepared me pretty well for it. Having two big-league spring trainings under my belt definitely helped. The guys have been great. Any advice you need, they\u2019re just good to talk to. They\u2019re easygoing about everything, and it makes for an easy transition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rockies don\u2019t return to Petco Park again this season, but Cole Carrigg is far from done with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1327,181,1334,74,76,75,2611,305,127],"class_list":["post-417226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-college-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-mlb","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sdsu-aztecs","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417226","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=417226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}