Tanner Gordon hit around as Guardians rout Rockies, 10-4

Kyle Newman, The Denver Post on Jul 29, 2025

Published in Baseball

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A day after a dramatic comeback, the Rockies came back down to Earth on Tuesday.

Cleveland dominated Colorado in the second game of the series at Progressive Field — a 10-4 Guardians victory in which the home team scored in each of the first six innings. The Guardians lit up Rockies right-hander Tanner Gordon for seven runs (six earned) over three innings, and the Colorado bullpen was ineffective.

Gordon, who was coming off six shutout innings in a home win against the Cardinals last week, pitched up in the zone and got hit around. That, plus runs off relievers Angel Chivilli and Jimmy Herget, negated a trio of Colorado homers.

“I saw (Gordon) living on the outside part of the plate with the fastball and change-up, and not much slider today,” interim manager Warren Schaeffer told reporters. “He didn’t have the ability to run a ball inside on them, and he couldn’t keep hitters honest. … That’s not really a recipe for success.”

Jordan Beck went deep in the fourth, Michael Toglia went deep in the seventh and Kyle Farmer took one out in the ninth, but they were all solo shots that didn’t matter much as Cleveland led from the opening inning.

In the first, Gabriel Arias’ RBI single gave Cleveland a 2-0 advantage. Brayan Rocchio’s single in the second added one more, then in the third, a two-run homer by Kyle Manzardo and a two-run triple by Rocchio made it 7-0.

Beck finally got Colorado on the board in the fourth, but Cleveland never relinquished the momentum. The Guardians tagged Chivilli for a run in both the fourth and fifth, and Manzardo hit another dinger off Herget in the sixth to make it 10-1.

Meanwhile, Guardians southpaw Logan Allen turned in a quality start with seven innings of two-run ball while working around some traffic.

“I saw a good change-up (from Allen), and a heater that was beating guys at times,” Schaeffer said. “He was keeping us off-balance, forward and backward.”

The Rockies outscored the Guardians 3-0 over the final three innings, with an RBI double by red-hot rookie Warming Bernabel sandwiched in the inning between homers by Toglia and Farmer. The Rockies finished with 10 hits, but were also 0 for 4 with runners in scoring position. Cleveland rapped out 15 hits and was 5 for 15 with runners in scoring position.

With the loss, the Rockies dropped to 28-79. They are on pace to finish 42-120, one game better than the modern loss record of 121 set by last year’s White Sox.

Colorado still has a chance to take the series on Wednesday as the Rockies look for just their third road series win in 18 tries this season.