The Rockies’ first winning series of the season was at their fingertips. But in a season that’s been so impossibly bad, the predictable happened.
The Yankees beat them, 5-4, on a rain-soaked Sunday afternoon at Coors Field to clinch the three-game series. Colorado fell to 9-44, continuing the worst start in the majors’ modern era (since 1901).
When the sun shone late, Mickey Moniak led off the bottom of the ninth with a 417-foot homer to right off Luke Weaver, making many of the Rocky Mountain Yankees fans squirm in their seats. And when Adael Amador blooped a one-out single to left and Jordan Beck followed with a single to right, Colorado was set up for a walk-off win.