{"id":60010,"date":"2023-07-31T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=60010"},"modified":"2023-07-31T09:56:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T13:56:32","slug":"rockies-franchise-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/07\/31\/rockies-franchise-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Rockies Make Franchise History Against Oakland A’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

In terms of record, the Oakland Athletics<\/a> (30-77) are the worst team in the league, yet, they won two of three games against the Colorado Rockies<\/a> (41-64) at Coors Field. In their series loss, the Rockies tied a franchise record. With their use of Chris Flexen as their starting pitcher, they tied the franchise record for most unique starting pitchers used in a season with 15, tying the 1993 and 2014 Rockies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Series vs. A\u2019s\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n

Although the Flexen game was the second game of the series, the final game saw a couple of Rockies legends throw out the first pitch. Carlos Gonzalez and Jorge De La Rosa were two of those players, both of which were a part of the 2014 squad that shares the record with the 2023 squad.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In his first start with the team, Flexen looked like his MLB career is closer to its end than he might like. He went three 2\/3 innings while giving up five runs. He walked six batters and gave up two home runs, rarely showing any of the potential that teams saw in him early in his career.<\/span><\/p>\n

Having their starters not make it deep into games is not a rare occurrence for this Rockies team. Only Ty Blach went five innings in this series, being the 58th time it has happened this season for the team, the lowest total in baseball.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Starting the first game of the series was Kyle Freeland, who went four innings while giving up three runs in what may have been one of his final starts in the team’s uniform. Despite signing a contract extension in the 2022 offseason, he, like most of his teammates, is open to being traded at this year’s trade deadline. Freeland is also not new to being in trade rumors, as ever since the Rockies’ last playoff appearance, he has been a point of conversation at every deadline.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Trades have begun\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n

In what became both of their final series with the team, C.J. Cron and Randal Grichuck both went 4-for-12 at the plate. After Sunday\u2019s game finished, Mark Feinsand announced that the Rockies traded the duo alongside $2 million to the Los Angeles Angels<\/a> for a pair of pitching prospects.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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BREAKING: The Angels are acquiring OF Randal Grichuk and 1B C.J. Cron from the Rockies, per source. Colorado gets back RHP Jake Madden and LHP Mason Albright.<\/p>\n

— Mark Feinsand (@Feinsand) July 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n