MLB.com<\/a>, the only longer shutout droughts on record were the 1893-96 Washington Senators (383) and the 1897-99 St. Louis Browns\/Perfectos (298), back when baseball was a very different sport.<\/p>\nThe pitchers responsible for the history were starting pitcher Tanner Gordon and relievers Jimmy Herget and Tyler Kinley, who combined to allow five hits total.<\/p>\n
From MLB.com:<\/p>\n
\u201cI did not know that,\u201d Rockies interim manager Warren Schaeffer said. \u201cThat\u2019s a long time \u2014 220 games. I\u2019m glad we shut them out today behind Gordon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Obviously, playing half their games at the infamously hitter-friendly Coors Field didn’t help the Rockies with their streak.<\/p>\n
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Tanner Gordon helped the Rockies put an ignominious streak to bed. (AP Photo\/David Zalubowski)<\/p>\n
(ASSOCIATED PRESS)<\/p>\n
Gordon was called up from Triple-A Albuquerque the same day, after the Rockies placed starting pitcher German Marquez on the 15-day injured list due to right biceps tendinitis. His start, the 12th of his career, was only the fourth time all season that a Rockies starter threw six or more shutout innings.<\/p>\n
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Even though the historic streak is over, it reflects what has been a grotesquely bad season for the Rockies. Their record improved to 26-76, which is still by far the worst record in MLB. The next-worst team is the Chicago White Sox at 36-66.<\/p>\n
The Rockies are roughly on track to match the losses record the White Sox set last year at 41-121, with their current pace working out to an end-of-season 41.3-120.7. The Rox were in much worse territory earlier this season but have been merely bad since the start of June, with a 17-27 record. Their minus-247 run differential still puts them on pace for a minus-392 mark this season, which would surpass the 1932 Boston team (minus-345) for the worst of the modern era.<\/p>\n
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Still, progress is progress when you’re a team that had single-digit wins at the end of May<\/a>. By taking two out of three games against the Cardinals this week and two of three against the Minnesota Twins last weekend, the Rockies posted their first back-to-back series wins of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Rockies posted a long-awaited zero on Wednesday. With a 6-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8731,4,450,2318,1230,24273,451,27361,2326,363,3,2328,7645,1231,27359,7948,452,453,27360,27358],"class_list":["post-32746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-boston","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-german-marquez","tag-headlines","tag-jimmy-herget","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-tanner-gordon","tag-the-rockies","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-tyler-kinley","tag-washington-senators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}