Iván Herrera had three hits and two RBIs, Cooper Hjerpe threw four perfect innings of relief in his major league debut and the St. Louis Cardinals held on to beat the Colorado Rockies 10-8 on Sunday.

Nolan Gorman added a go-ahead, two-run home run off reliever Jimmy Herget (0-6) to cap a six-run fifth inning for the Cardinals, who took two of three games from Colorado and have won five of their last six road series.

Alec Burleson had three hits and his team-leading 103rd RBI of the season. Leo Bernal drove in two runs for St. Louis. It was the third multi-RBI outing for Bernal in six career MLB games.

Hjerpe (1-0), the 22nd overall pick of the 2022 draft by the Cardinals, was recalled from Triple-A Memphis before Sunday’s game. The 25-year-old left-hander struck out six after relieving starter Kyle Leahy in the third inning.

George Soriano struck out Troy Johnston with a runner on second base in the ninth to earn his third save of the season.

Mickey Moniak hit his 22nd homer of the season and drove in four runs for the Rockies. Jake McCarthy added a homer and three RBIs and TJ Rumfield finished with three hits and an RBI.

Moniak’s homer chased Leahy after a season-low 2 2/3 innings, with five earned runs allowed.

Leahy, a native of nearby Boulder, Colorado, had allowed two runs or fewer in each of his previous 12 starts.

Up next

Cardinals RHP Michael McGreevy (6-9, 3.97 ERA) will face Giants RHP Logan Webb (8-8, 4.21) in San Francisco on Monday.

Rockies RHP Gabriel Hughes (0-6, 6.19 ERA) is to square off against Yankees RHP Cam Schlittler (12-6, 2.04) in New York on Tuesday.

DENVER (AP) — Cole Carrigg had two hits, including a leadoff single to spark a six-run fifth inning, and the Colorado Rockies beat the St. Louis Cardinals 10-7 on Saturday night.

The Rockies, who managed just a walk through the first four innings, finished with 11 hits.

Colorado starter Mason Adams, making his third start since his major league debut Aug. 25, failed to make it out of the fifth and was denied his first career win. Brennan Bernardino (4-3) got the win and Jordan Romano got the final two outs for his 15th save.

Cardinals starter Matthew Liberatore (5-14) lost his eighth straight decision and has not won in his last nine starts. He set down the first 10 batters before walking Connor Norby, then got the next two batters before Colorado broke through in the fifth.

With one out, the Rockies had three straight singles to score two, and Liberatore threw two wild pitches during Jake McCarthy’s at-bat to bring home another run. McCarthy and Tovar pulled off a double steal, McCarthy scored on a single and TJ Rumfield capped the inning with an RBI double.

The Cardinals got two back in the sixth inning off of reliever Zach Agnos on Nolan Gorman’s RBI double and Thomas Saggese’s sacrifice fly but Colorado answered with four runs in the seventh, two against rookie Hancel Rincon, who was the center of a controversy in Friday night����ap 7-6 St. Louis win when home plate umpire Doug Eddings directed him to straighten his cap.

It led to manager Oliver Marmol’s ejection.

Joshua Baez hit a solo homer in the second inning and singled in the sixth. Ivan Herrera hit a two-run shot in the fifth to make it 3-0.

Up next

Boulder native Kyle Leahy (10-4, 5.41) takes the mound for the Cardinals against the Rockies Tanner Gordon (1-4, 5.18) in a matchup of right-handers Sunday.

Players from St. Louis and Colorado tilted their caps Saturday night in apparent protest of umpire Doug Eddings one day after he instructed Cardinals rookie pitcher Hancel Rincon to straighten his hat.

Eddings’ comments prompted an argument with St. Louis manager Oliver Marmol that led to Marmol’s ejection.

Most of the Cardinals’ players had their hats tilted during pregame warmups, and many continued to tilt them in the dugout during the game. Some even tilted their batting helmets to celebrate reaching base. At least some Colorado players also wore their caps to the side.

Rincon said Eddings apologized to him when they spoke briefly on the field Saturday. Rincon said through an interpreter that he accepted that apology.

Eddings also spoke to Marmol before the game, but the manager said there was “nothing of meaning” out of their brief conversation.

“We’ve had a few rough stretches here, but the one superpower that we’ve had through this whole season is our ability to unify and really stand up for all the guys we have in the clubhouse and have each other’s backs,” Matthew Liberatore, St. Louis’ starter Saturday night, said after the Rockies’ 10-5 win.

“It����ap a really tight-knit group. I love the fact that regardless of what����ap going on, they always have each other’s backs,” Marmol said.

Rincon, a 24-year-old from the Dominican Republic, made his major league debut in relief in the sixth inning Friday night and wore his cap with the brim pointing to the left. He straightened it at Eddings’ urging, then got Hunter Goodman to fly out before TJ Rumfield tripled and scored on a wild pitch and Cole Carrigg hit an inside-the-park home run.

Rincon allowed another single before being replaced by Justin Bruihl. Marmol then came out of the dugout to confront Eddings and was ejected during Colorado’s five-run inning.

“I had an issue with Doug,” Marmol told reporters after the game. “Just Doug. He took it upon himself to tell our rookie pitcher the kid’s ‘not going to wear his hat on my field that way.’ You got Dontrelle Willis, CC Sabathia, Pedro Strop — plenty of guys that have worn it way more tilted. I have an issue with that. That����ap just a power-hungry move, in my opinion.”

Eddings told reporters postgame that he confronted Rincon after a Colorado hitter complained. Goodman was the only hitter to face Rincon at the time of the warning, and the catcher told MLB.com on Saturday that he did not complain to Eddings.

St. Louis rallied to win 7-6 on Friday after Ivan Herrera’s three-run homer in the ninth inning.

DENVER (AP) — Iván Herrera hit a three-run homer in the ninth inning to rally the St. Louis Cardinals past the Colorado Rockies 7-6 on Friday night, tightening a crowded race for the final National League wild card.

St. Louis pulled even with Miami at 71-71 as both teams chase San Diego (74-67) and Arizona (74-68) for the last NL playoff berth.

With the Cardinals trailing 6-4 in the ninth, Thomas Saggese drew a leadoff walk from Jordan Romano (0-3) and stole second with one out. He went to third when José Fermín reached on a throwing error by third baseman Connor Norby.

Herrera then drove a 1-2 slider 430 feet to center field for his 15th home run, handing Romano his fourth blown save.

Riley O’Brien struck out two in the ninth for his 36th save. After committing a throwing error on a pickoff attempt that advanced the potential tying run to second base, O’Brien fanned rookie Cole Carrigg to end it.

Cade Winquist (1-0) worked 1 2/3 scoreless innings for his first major league win.

Carrigg hit an inside-the-park home run and TJ Rumfield also homered and finished with three hits for Colorado.

The Rockies rallied to take the lead in the sixth after St. Louis starter Andre Pallante held them to a run through five innings.

Rumfield hit a one-out triple off Hancel Rincon, who was making his major league debut, and scored on a wild pitch. Carrigg’s drive off the wall in center got away from outfielder Nathan Church, and the speedy Carrigg scored easily.

Justin Bruihl, who came on after a single, was called for a pitch-clock violation. Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol argued with plate umpire Doug Eddings and was ejected.

Norby scored on Adael Amador’s single, and Troy Johnston was ruled safe when he raced home from third on Zac Veen’s sacrifice bunt. Replays showed catcher Leo Bernal tagged Johnston, but St. Louis lost its challenge earlier in the inning on Rumfield’s triple.

Rumfield’s solo homer in the seventh, his 15th of the season, extended the lead.

Up next

Cardinals LHP Matthew Liberatore (5-13, 5.41 ERA) goes for his first win in nine starts against Rockies rookie RHP Mason Adams (0-0, 3.00) on Saturday night.

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Prior to the matinee rubber match on Wednesday against Baltimore at Coors Field, the Rockies manager spoke at length about the frustration he’s been dealing with amid the club’s struggles in close games this season.

“What’s most frustrating for me is when you’re getting close, and (you keep) getting closer, but you’re still losing,” Schaeffer said. “But that is when you take the 1,000-foot view and you back up, and you look at last year compared to this year, and you look at where we’re going — you can see all the progress.

“You can see it that we’re in those games, and the enormous chasm between last year and this year. We’ve lost a ton of close ballgames this year. Last year we weren’t in (very many) close ball games. That in itself has been a step forward that we’re in them. Now we need to win them more, like we did (Tuesday) night.”

The Rockies did just that on Wednesday, rallying in the ninth and then again in the 11th to win the game on Brett Sullivan‘s two-out, two-strike, two-run walk-off single to take the game 6-5 as well as the series.

Two frames prior, Colorado was also down to its final out, but rookies Cole Carrigg and Zac Veen came through to tie the game and send it into extras. With two outs, Carrigg doubled, then Veen followed with a two-strike, pinch-hit double to tie the game 3-3.

Renck: Rockies’ Cole Carrigg can’t give fans the bird, but Colorado needs his edge to win

Colorado is now 28-41 in games decided by one or two runs this year. Despite that mark, Schaeffer says there is much more belief in this year's clubhouse than there was during last year's historic 119-loss season.

"(Our players) expect to win," Schaeffer said. "I don't know if that was always necessarily the case last year."

Wednesday's dramatics capped a strong series for the Rockies against Baltimore, who is in contention in the American League wild card race. It would've been a sweep for Colorado if not for a incredible web game in Monday's series opener.

The Rockies achieved franchise infamy that night with a record-setting 10th straight loss at Coors Field that came in brutal fashion. Colton Cowser robbed Jake McCarthy of a would-be two-run walk-off homer by leaping up and snaring McCarthy's hit that was headed over the center field wall.

WHEN COWS FLY

COLTON COWSER HOME RUN ROBBERY TO END IT!!

— Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles)

In a streak that began with a sweep by the Rays in early August, Colorado was also swept by the Dodgers and Guardians en route to Monday's record-setting 2-1 loss, which eclipsed the previous longest home defeat streak set by the inaugural 1993 squad at Mile High Stadium.

Colorado finally snapped that skid on Tuesday, using a two-run homer by TJ Rumfield in the bottom of the seventh to break a 2-2 tie. Juan Mejia held the fort in the eighth and Jordan Romano recorded his 14th save in the ninth to cement the 4-2 win.

Rumfield's 14th homer continued his torrid debut season that has him in the conversation for NL Rookie of the Year, even as Reds corner infielder Sal Stewart is currently the Vegas favorite to win the award. Cardinals second baseman JJ Wetherholt had been the frontrunner for most of the season, but has slumped in the second half and was earlier this week.

In terms of Rumfield versus Stewart comparison, the Rockies first baseman is slashing .290/.384/.443 with an .827 OPS, 14 homers, 26 doubles and 63 RBIs. Meanwhile, the all-star Stewart is slashing .268/.338/.489 with an identical .827 OPS, 31 homers, 25 doubles and an MLB-leading 105 RBIs.

While Rumfield has been impressive swinging the bat, his plate discipline also stands out. He's riding a 10-game on-base streak, and his 64 walks are four short of surpassing Dexter Fowler for the most walks by a rookie in franchise history. And there's still more room for improvement there, as Rumfield is swinging at 30.5% of pitches outside the zone, which ranks in the 41st percentile.

Following Rumfield and solid pitching lifting Colorado to the win in Game 2, in Wednesday's rubber match, it appeared the Rockies would revert back to this season's norm: unable to find a way to break through in tight games.

After forcing extras, Baltimore plated two in the top of the 11th to go ahead 5-3. Colorado responded with Rumfield's leadoff RBI single in the bottom of the frame to cut the deficit to a run.

Adael Amador nearly homered with two outs and Rumfield on first, but the ball came up just short of going out, then bounced over the wall and out of play for a ground-rule double. Had the ball stayed in play, Rumfield would've easily scored to tie the game.

But Sullivan came through the next at-bat with the game-ending heroics.

"Sometimes it doesn't go our way, and there's reasons for that... but today, the grind, the never-give-up, the amount of two-strike knocks... what a game," Schaeffer said. "That was awesome."

After an off day on Thursday, Colorado's homestand continues Friday with the start of a three-game series against the Cardinals. The Rockies (54-86) need to go 9-13 over their remaining 22 games to avoid a fourth consecutive 100-loss season.

to reach 30 homers for the sixth straight season and Freddie Freeman had two hits and two RBIs as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Colorado Rockies 7-6 on Tuesday night.

Shohei Ohtani has reached 30 HR in all 3 seasons with the Dodgers!

— MLB (@MLB)

Teoscar Hernandez had a triple and double, and Tommy Edman doubled twice as the Dodgers broke out of an offensive slump in Denver.

Los Angeles scored 10 runs in the four-game series against Milwaukee over the weekend. Against Colorado, the Dodgers have scored 18 runs on 24 hits with four homers, including three by Ohtani, in the first two games of the three-game set.

Ohtani’s 30th homer traveled 448 feet into the Los Angeles bullpen off Ryan Feltner (5-7) and gave the Dodgers a 3-1 lead in the third inning. The Rockies tied it in the bottom of the inning before Los Angeles went ahead again in the fourth.

Breaking down Shohei Ohtani’s dominance of the Rockies at Coors Field

Edman, Kyle Tucker and Hernandez doubled in the inning to make it 5-3, and Hernandez scored on Freeman’s sacrifice fly.

Eric Lauer (8-6) allowed four runs on six hits with six strikeouts in five innings. The 31-yeare-old left-hander has been one of the best starters for Los Angeles since coming over from Toronto on May 17. He went 6-1 with a 3.48 ERA in his first 11 starts with the Dodgers.

Before the game, Los Angeles placed closer Edwin Diaz on the injured list with neck inflammation and recalled righty Emmet Sheehan from Triple-A. Tanner Scott, elevated to the closer role, earned his 17th save when he got TJ Rumfield to pop out to short with the tying run on.

Colorado’s Will Castro hit his 14th homer of the season, a solo shot in the fifth inning.

Up next

Dodgers RHP Roki Sasaki (5-5, 4.46 ERA) faces Rockies LHP Kyle Freeland (4-10, 6.27) in the finale of the three-game series Wednesday night.

McCarthy gave Colorado the lead on the first pitch of the game with his 420-foot drive to right-center field off Matthew Liberatore (5-9), and the Rockies went on to snap a four-game skid.

McCarthy hit his second of the game and 13th of the season in the sixth. He is hitting .305 and has seven hits in his last two games.

Liberatore went five innings and struck out three while giving up five runs on nine hits.

José Fermín had a two-run double to put the Cardinals ahead, but Carrigg hit a two-run double of his own in the third that gave the Rockies the lead for good. Hunter Goodman drove in one more before the end of the inning.

Rumfield got another across in the fifth, and McCarthy belted a two-run shot to center in the sixth.

The Cardinals got within two after Jordan Walker’s eighth-inning homer, and brought the tying run to the plate in the ninth, but Jordan Romano struck out César Prieto swinging for his 10th save.

Rockies starter Kyle Freeland tossed 4 1/3 innings. He struck out three and walked three, and allowed five hits and three runs (one earned).

Five relievers combined to hold the Cardinals to two hits and three runs. Parker Mushinski (1-0) worked 1 1/3 innings for the win.

Up next

RHP Michael Lorenzen (3-10, 6.94 ERA) starts for Colorado opposite Cardinals RHP Michael McGreevy (4-9, 3.59) in the series finale on Sunday.

The victory was Colorado’s 44th of the season, eclipsing last year’s total with 51 games remaining.

Goodman broke his single-season franchise record for home runs by a catcher with a three-run shot in Colorado’s six-run third, and hit his 33rd homer in the seventh inning for his sixth multi-homer game this season.

Goodman, a possible trade target ahead of Monday night����ap deadline, leads the Rockies with 65 RBIs.

Kansas City outfielder Lane Thomas was pulled from the game in the middle of the fourth inning, and was later traded to the Atlanta Braves.

Jac Caglianone and Salvador Perez hit back-to-back homers and John Rave also went deep for Kansas City.

The Royals built a 4-0 lead with a run in the second and three in the third on Caglianone’s two-run shot, his team-leading 18th of the year, and Perez’s solo blast. Rockies starter Ryan Feltner (4-6) settled down after a shaky start to pitch six innings.

Colorado sent 11 men to the plate in the third to grab control against Kansas City starter Luinder Avila (5-4). Kyle Karros had a two-run double, TJ Rumfield drove in another with a single ahead of Goodman’s 384-foot blast to left.

Rumfield had an RBI single in the fifth and Willi Castro added a solo shot to center in the fifth, his 12th of the season.

Up next

The Royals were set to send Seth Lugo (4-6, 4.22) to the mound against Colorado lefty Kyle Freeland (2-10, 7.34) on Sunday to wrap up the three-game series.

As Colorado dropped the series on Sunday at American Family Field in an 11-2 loss, Misiorowski was nearly unhittable through five innings. The Brewers right-handed ace set a Milwaukee record with seven strikeouts to begin the game, two K’s short of tying the MLB record. The All-Star struck out 12 of the first 13 hitters he faced.

topped his own record in the pitch-tracking era (since 2008) for the most 100-plus mph pitches in a game (all 66 fastballs) and most 102-plus mph pitches in a game (54). His heater averaged 102.8 mph and topped out and he was the first pitcher in the divisional era (since 1969) with 11 K’s and no hits through the first four innings of a game.

Rookie outfielder Cole Carrigg was the lone Colorado player to dent Misiorowski’s masterful afternoon. With two outs in the fifth, Carrigg homered 361 feet to left field on a two-strike, 101.9 mph fastball, the fastest pitch a Colorado player has ever homered off in the pitch-tracking era.

It was yet another performance that underscored Misiorowski’s generational talent — and served as a reminder of the type of dynamic pitching talent the Rockies need to find and develop in their homegrown rotation in order to become competitive again. Misiorowski was a second-round pick out of Crowder College in 2022, meaning every other team passed on him before the Brewers saw enough potential in the junior college pitcher at No. 63 overall.

It’s those type of finds that make the Brewers, MLB’s small-market darlings, perennially competitive. They’ve made the playoffs seven of the last eight years, including the National League Championship Series last season. Meanwhile, the Rockies — usually with a higher payroll — haven’t been to the postseason since 2018.

While Misiorowski dominated, Kyle Freeland had a rough first inning. The Brewers plated three runs as Freeland had a throwing error on a bunt and another run scored on a wild pitch. In the fifth, Andrew Vaughn homered off Freeland to make it 4-1, then Colorado’s bullpen unraveled as Jimmy Herget gave up four runs and Victor Vodnik gave up two runs.

Rally comes up short in Game 2

The Rockies were undone by a four-run Brewers sixth inning in Saturday’s 8-5 loss in Game 2, but the offense showed fight in the final inning that’s indicative of how much better the club’s swung it on the road this year.

After averaging a measly 2.81 runs per game on the road during the 119-loss 2025 season, the Rockies are averaging 4.44 runs per game on the road in ’26. Colorado fought until the end on Saturday, scoring three runs and forcing the Brewers to bring in closer Trevor Megill to get the final out.

Down 8-2, TJ Rumfield led off the ninth with a walk by Lance McCullers Jr. The Rockies took advantage of an error, then Ezequiel Tovar walked and Jake McCarthy roped a two-RBI single to end McCullers’ night. Kyle Karros then singled off Megill to make it 8-5, bring the tying run to the plate in Carrigg. But Megill K’d Carrigg to end the game with Hunter Goodman standing in the on-deck circle.

That ninth-inning effort was too little, too late, but it underscored Colorado’s offensive improvement on the road across all categories this year. After batting .203 away from Coors Field in ’25, the Rockies were hitting .239 this season entering Sunday, with a .707 OPS compared to .589 last year.

Tomoyuki Sugano gets 10 wins

In the 5-2 win in the series opener, Sugano spun a second straight strong start to open his second half. He threw five-plus innings of two-run ball in Colorado’s wire-to-wire win. Pitching on a one year, $5.1 million deal, the 36-year-old’s been a solid veteran addition to prop up a thin rotation — better than Michael Lorenzen (6.53 ERA) and the bust of a signing in Jose Quintana, who has been on the injured list since May with a left elbow sprain.

In his 10 wins out of his 18 starts, the right-hander’s been stellar, with a 3.46 ERA. He’s the first Rockies starter with 10 wins since Germán Márquez in 2021, and one of four Rockies pitchers all-time with 10 wins over his first 18 starts with the club.

He’s certainly made a strong case to be trade bait ahead of the Aug. 3 deadline, although Colorado could also re-sign him to another one-year deal for a rotation that is going to need some holes filled in for ’27. At 36, he’s not a long-term solution, but could be an effective bridge to younger, homegrown starters if the Rockies don’t get a decent offer at the deadline.

Whatever happens with Sugano, his performance over the last couple games is a reminder of the team that Colorado — with a revived offense — can be with decent starting pitching. Colorado starters have thrown at least five innings in 34 of Colorado’s 42 wins this year, and the team is 30-14 when starters throw at least five innings and allow three or fewer earned runs.

Clayton Beeter (3-3) gave up — on a 3-2 pitch — before Jordan Romano struck out two in the ninth for his seventh save. Juan Mejia (3-6) worked a scoreless eighth for the win.

José Tena had a two-out single off Rockies starter Michael Lorenzen in the first and for the third straight game for a 2-0 lead.

Mickey Moniak hit an RBI single as Colorado answered with a four-run second against rookie opener Carson Palmquist. Troy Johnston added a sacrifice fly, and Jake McCarthy doubled in a run before scoring on a two-out single by rookie Cole Carrigg, who had three of Colorado’s 12 hits.

again — his 24th — with Tena aboard to tie it 4-all in the third. Abrams has 78 RBIs to match the Cardinals’ Jordan Walker for most in the majors.

Willi Castro hit a leadoff double in the third against Nationals reliever Miles Mikolas before scoring on Kyle Karros’ groundout for a 5-4 lead.

James Wood delivered a two-out, two-run double to put the Nationals ahead 6-5 and chase Lorenzen, who allowed six runs on seven hits in 3 2/3 innings.

Goodman doubled and scored on a two-out single by TJ Rumfield to tie it in the fifth, and the sixth with his 16th homer to put the Rockies ahead 7-6.

Wood doubled in the seventh off Jimmy Herget before scoring on pinch-hitter Jorbit Vivas’ sacrifice fly to tie it at 7.

Palmquist was tagged for four runs and four hits over 1 2/3 innings in his seventh big league appearance, and Mikolas gave up three runs on six hits in 3 2/3 innings.

Up next

Nationals RHP Cade Cavalli (6-4, 3.78 ERA) starts Wednesday opposite Rockies RHP Gabriel Hughes (0-1, 3.14).