Padres Deny Rockies From First Back-to-Back Wins Of Season

Courtesy of the Colorado Rockies

Wednesday April 24

San Diego 5 (14-13), Colorado 2 (6-19)

Winning Pitcher: Matt Waldron (1-2)

Losing Pitcher: Ty Blach (0-1)

Save: Robert Suarez (9)

Attendance: 19,356

Time of Game: 2:18

COLORADO ROCKIES POSTGAME NOTES

— With their loss the Rockies have yet to win consecutive games this season, their longest drought to begin a season in franchise history.

— The longest single-season streak in franchise history was a 35-game stretch in May/June, 2022.

— With the loss, the Rockies can only split the four-game set with the Padres and have not won a series this season.

— In 2023, Colorado did not notch its first series win until the eighth series of the season (April 24-26 at Cleveland), the longest stretch to begin a season without a series win in franchise history.

— Starting pitcher Ty Blach (5.0,5,4,4,2,0) took the loss in his first start of the season, his second game overall in the Majors in 2024.

— Blach has pitched at least five innings in seven of his last eight starts dating back to Aug. 27, 2023.

— 3B Ryan McMahon (1-3, R, HR, RBI, BB) connected on his third home run of the season, a 444 foot shot that is the Rockies longest home run of the season.

— McMahon commited his fifth error of the season. He did not commit No. 5 last season iunly June 27.

— CF Brenton Doyle (1-for-4) has hit safely in seven of his last eight games, a .357 average (10-for-28) over that span.

— C Elias Diaz (2-4, R, HR, RBI) recorded his second home run of the season and first since March 29, a span of 19 homerless games.

— Diaz threw out two would-be base stealers, the seventh time in his career catching multiple baserunners (last: Aug. 11, 2023 at Los Angeles-NL).

— RHP Anthony Monlia allowed one run and struck out one in three innings in his second consecutive scoreless appearance.

— Molina has allowed one earned run in his last seven innings.

SAN DIEGO PADRES POSTON GAME NOTES

— The Padres held the Rockies’ offense to two runs and five hits in their 5-2 victory.

— It was San Diego’s sixth game of the season allowing two runs or fewer (last: April 22 at Colorado, one run).

— The Padres recorded their 11th quality start this season (last: April 22 at Colorado).

— Starting pitcher Matt Waldron (6.0,4,1,1,3,5) recorded his first quality start of the season and the second of his career (also: Sept. 27, 2023 at San Francisco).

— Waldron equaled the longest start of his career (also: Sept. 27, 2023 at San Francisco).

— 2B Xander Bogaerts (3-4, one run) has reached base in five straight games and eight of his last 10.

— Wednesday was Bogaerts first game of the season with three or more hits, his first since Sept. 20, 2023 vs Colorado.

— SS Ha-Seong Kim (2-4, 2B, 2 RBI, R) has reached base in 12 of his last 13 games with a .418 on-base percentage in that stretch.

— Kim has his second straight multi-hit game and fifth of the season.

— Kim had his fourth multi-RBI game of the season, the first since April 16 at Milwaukee.

— Padres closer RHP Robert Suarez (1,0,0,0,0,1) recorded his ninth save in his ninth save opportunity of the season.

— Suarez extended his scoreless streak to 9 1/3 innings pitched, the longest streak by a Padre reliever this season.