With the start of the Major League Baseball season postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, we here at The Denver Post took a look at how the Rockies would fare in MLB The Show 20 on PlayStation 4. We will have a story for every game that had been scheduled until real-life baseball returns. Here’s a look at the virtual Rockies’ preseason preview. Entering Monday’s game, the Rockies were 55-28.
PITTSBURGH — New city, same loss.
For the second straight game, the Rockies lost in extra innings on the road after reliever Yency Almonte gave up a hit that drove in the winning run. This time it was a 5-4 defeat to the Pirates Monday at PNC Park.
Almonte (3-3) gave up a single to Colin Moran, who drove in Bryan Reynolds for the winning run.
Colorado garnered the early lead after Nolan Arenado hit a solo home run in the first inning. The Pirates would come back to take a 4-1 lead, capped off by a three-run homer by Gregory Polanco off of starter Kyle Freeland in the sixth inning.
The Rockies would push it to extras after late-game heroics by first baseman Daniel Murphy, who hit his own three-run blast off Keone Kela in the top of the ninth to tie it at 4-all.
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With the loss, the Rockies’ (55-29) National League West lead drops to 6 1/2 games over the Dodgers (49-36). Colorado and Pittsburgh (36-48) play against Tuesday. Chi Chi Gonzalez (3-5) takes the mound against Pirates’ Mitch Keller (3-5).
Box score
COL — 100-000-003-00 — 4-8-1
PIT — 000-103-000-01 — 5-11-0
Colorado — Hampson 4-0-1-0, Dahl 4-0-1-0, Arenado 5-1-1-1, Story 5-1-3-0, Blackmon 3-1-0-0, Murphy 5-1-2-3, Hilliard 5-0-0-0, E. Diaz 5-0-0-0, Freeland 1-0-0-0, J. Diaz 0-0-0-0, Tapia 1-0-0-0, McGee 0-0-0-0, Daza 0-0-0-0, Collins 0-0-0-0, McMahon 1-0-0-0, Almonte 0-0-0-0. Totals — 39-4-8-4.
Pittsburgh — Newman 5-0-1-0, Frazier 5-1-2-0, Reynolds 4-2-1-0, Bell 5-1-3-1, Moran 5-0-2-1, Polanco 4-1-1-3, Burdi 0-0-0-0, Stallings 4-0-1-0, Tucker 3-0-0-0, Williams 1-0-0-0, Osuna 1-0-0-0, Feliz 0-0-0-0, Kela 0-0-0-0, Rodriguez 0-0-0-0, Dyson 1-0-0-0. Totals — 38-5-11-5.
E — Freeland. 2B — Story 2. 3B — Frazier. HR — Arenado, Murphy; Polanco. SB — Story, Daza; Newman. WP — Burdi (3-5). LP — Almonte (3-3).
