Rockies Mailbag: GM Dayton Moore to Colorado? What can Nuggets teach the Rox?
Denver Post sports writer Patrick Saunders with the latest installment of his Rockies Mailbag.
Denver Post sports writer Patrick Saunders with the latest installment of his Rockies Mailbag.
An unexpected call from Roc Nation’ s sports division came through to Brave Space Alliance early Thursday. Stroman, the organization was told, was donating $20,000 to Brave Space Alliance to aid its work on the South and West sides. “I’ m going to be very frank: It saves lives— $20,000 saves lives,” Brave Space Alliance deputy CEO Jae Rice told the Tribune.“ We save lives.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Major League Baseball held a 60- game season, in which the rebuilding Orioles went 25-35 before losing 110 games in 2021. For the Orioles in 2020, José Iglesias hit. 373, Renato Núñez was on a full-season pace to hit 32 home runs and Chance Sisco had a better OPS than Austin Hays. Given those examples, it’ s safe to assume the numbers…
Since 1996, when Major League Baseball took the San Diego Padres and the New York Mets to Mexico for a three-game series, the brand has been expanding its global reach with games in Australia, Japan, Puerto Rico and soon South Korea and the Dominican Republic. And now, after a three-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, the London Series is back June 24-25, and…
Kyle Hamilton had to adapt to an unexpected role to get the most out of his rookie season with the Ravens. He learned enough from the experience that he’ s not going to pin himself down, not on June 6, anyway. The 2022 first-round draft pick knows fans are eager to hear where he will play in his second NFL campaign: At safety, where he was rated the runaway top prospect in his…
The enormous scoreboard at Coors Field went on the fritz for a couple of minutes in the first inning Tuesday night. That was the first omen that the Rockies were going to lose their ninth consecutive game to the Giants.
The Orioles were five outs away from squeaking out a one-run win against the Milwaukee Brewers. Baltimore had overcome a nearly disastrous first inning from Kyle Gibson and got all of its offensive production from two players— Aaron Hicks and Ryan O’ Hearn— who weren’ t on its major league roster a month ago. But the Orioles needed more offense than the homers they…
ATLANTA— The last time the Mets were in Atlanta, their stars went dim. After an hour and 40 minutes of a rainless rain delay to start a three-game NL East series, Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonso homered, with the latter extending his league lead to 22 on the season. But right-handers Carlos Carrasco and Drew Smith imploded in the sixth and the Mets lost 6-4..
All of Pedro Grifol’ s previous roles in baseball— from scouting to serving as a bench coach— have come in handy during his first season as a big-league manager with the Chicago White Sox. “Every single job,” Grifol said in the visiting manager’ s room at Yankee Stadium before Tuesday’ s 3-2 victory against the New York Yankees.“ All the way from my area scouting, when you…
Slugger Aaron Judge is headed to the injured list with a contusion and sprained ligament in his right big toe, manager Aaron Boone announced after Tuesday’ s loss to the Chicago White Sox. Christopher Ahmad on Tuesday night. Judge, who received a PRP shot, sustained the injury while making a gate-breaking catch at Dodger Stadium on Saturday..