Rockies’ late rally falls short in 6-5 loss to Marlins at rainy Coors Field

Rockies interim manager Warren Schaeffer loves to talk about the fight in his band even when it goes down swinging It happened again Tuesday night at cold and rainy Coors Field where the Rockies fell - to the Marlins It s a testament to the guys they could have folded early Schaeffer stated for the umpteenth time during the worst season in franchise history After the rain delay we made a nice push as we constantly do We had the right guy at the plate the guy you want up there with two outs in the ninth Everybody in the dugout thought something good was going to happen But per usual the end development was not good Behind - early the Rockies had the tying run on third base and the winning run on first in the ninth when catcher Hunter Goodman hit a line shot straight into the waiting glove of third baseman Connor Norby Colorado s wild two-run ninth included a single by red-hot Mickey Moniak on a grounder to diving first baseman Eric Wagaman Wagerman threw the ball to first but no one was covering the bag That allowed Kyle Karros to sum and sent Tyler Freeman to third But the bottom line is that despite Schaeffer s soothing words Colorado continues to solidify its place as one of the worst teams in baseball history It s now - with a minus- run differential The Rockies are - in September and have lost of their last games Veteran left-hander Kyle Freeland who explained he pitched poorly Tuesday night and took the loss as his record slid to - did not sugarcoat the state of the club Petitioned what message he has for the fans the Denver native commented It s hard to send a positive message out to the fans right now Three straight -loss seasons and sniffing an MLB record this year for the most of losses Not a lot has gone correctly for us The stuff that has come mostly in the second half We have been playing much better baseball but the consistency is still not there I really don t know what to say to the fan right now This is a really rough time for Colorado Rockies baseball For the greater part of Tuesday night the Rockies carried the baggage from their dismal West Coast road trip home to LoDo By the time they unloaded it it was too late On their - journey to Los Angeles and San Diego the Rockies hit scored just total runs and struck out times Shortstop Ezequiel Tovar went for with strikeouts Brenton Doyle was for with eight strikeouts and Goodman hit for with eight Ks Related Articles Tanner Gordon emerges as Rockies best starter as season nears close Mickey Moniak has career day but slumping Rockies lose to Padres Rockies analysis GM Bill Schmidt s track record illustrates why front-office change appears imminent Rockies pounded by Padres lose for the th time in games Rockies Journal Taking a swing at MLB expansion and realignment Returning to LoDo often pumps specific life into Colorado s offense But not on Tuesday night or at least not until Moniak hit a three-run homer in the eighth off reliever Michael Petersen Moniak s nd home run of the season flew feet On Sunday in the Rockies - loss to the Padres he went for hit two homers drove in a career-high five runs and stole two bases When you get into these types of streaks you re thinking less Moniak declared That s something I ve been talking about the whole year What I ve been trying to do when I get in the box is try not to think about what my hands are doing and try not to think about anything but competing finding a good pitch to hit and putting a good swing on it Before rain and lighting caused a -hour -minute delay right-hander Eury P rez dominated the Rockies for five scoreless innings He allowed one hit a leadoff single by Blaine Crim in the third walked none and struck out six Goodman reached second base in the fourth inning on an error by center fielder Jakob Marsee who couldn t make a tough catch at the wall That s as close as the Rockies came to reaching home against P rez Schaeffer complimented P rez saying the Rockies couldn t handle the right-hander s heavy fastball and effective sweeper Colorado s loss would have been even more lopsided had it not been for Doyle s play in center field He robbed Dane Myers of a hit by making a sliding catch in the fourth and then robbed Myers of a home run in the eighth Myers ripped a pitch mph to deep center but Doyle leaped and reached over the wall to make the catch Miami knocked Freeland around scoring six runs on eight hits over innings as Freeland s ERA rose to Freeland s th loss is tied for the the bulk in the majors and tied for the second-most for a Rockie in a single season in franchise history with Jamey Wright trailing Darryl Kile s losses in I did not do a good job of executing my fastball Freeland revealed It s been pretty good lately but I didn t establish the outer half and didn t establish the inner half I was kind of working with a hopeful heater and decent curveball tonight I didn t have a very good feel for my sweeper of changeup Freeland set himself up for a rough third inning He hit Joey Wiemer and gave up a single to Javier Sanoja setting up Otto Lopez s sacrifice fly to right Then Freeland walked Agustin Ramirez before Jakob Marsee ripped a two-run double to right-center Miami scored three more runs in the sixth off Freeland combining back-to-back singles by Heriberto Hernandez and Eric Wagaman with a two-run double by Myers followed by an RBI single behind the first-base bag by Javier Sanoja Want more Rockies news Sign up for the Rockies Insider to get all our MLB analysis