Two Adamses, two days
Blake Adams got one-plus inning and five runs against him. Now Colorado sends out the other one.
Mason Adams is expected to make his major league debut tonight in Washington, the second game of a four-game series and the second Rockies debut in as many days. The 26-year-old right-hander came over from the Chicago White Sox on Aug. 3, part of the deal that sent Brenton Doyle to Chicago.
Since the trade he has made three starts for Triple-A Albuquerque and given up almost nothing: a 2.08 ERA, no decisions. Zoom out and the season looks ordinary. Seventeen games across four minor league clubs, 15 of them starts, 3-4 with one save and a 3.48 ERA. MLB.com has him 20th in the Colorado system.
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Seven straight, and one bad inning
The Rockies have lost seven in a row. Six of those came at home, so the road trip was supposed to change something. Monday it did not.
Colorado led 2-0 on home runs from Willi Castro and Ezequiel Tovar. Washington answered with the next 10 runs and won 13-3. Five of them arrived in the fifth, helped along by two Rockies errors.
“We gotta take care of the baseball better than that,” manager Warren Schaeffer said. “That was an inning that got out of control. This is the big leagues. We need to play better than that.”
Tovar hurt himself in that same inning, straining his left wrist on a diving attempt before leaving in the sixth. Schaeffer expects him to be fine. The shortstop has been Colorado’s most reliable bat since the deadline, hitting .333 over 45 at-bats with three doubles, two homers and eight runs. Connor Norby has reached base in all 12 games since arriving from Miami.
Washington found its bats
The Nationals had lost four in a row before Monday. Daylen Lile ended that on his own: a two-run single, a double, then a three-run homer. The 23-year-old outfielder is up to 16 home runs and 71 RBIs in his second season. Jorbit Vivas matched a career high with three hits.
Andrew Alvarez takes the ball for Washington. The left-hander is 2-5 with a 3.60 ERA and has lost his last two starts despite conceding three earned runs across 10 2/3 innings. Against Jacob deGrom and the Rangers on Thursday he gave up one run in five innings and still lost 2-0, walking three and pitching out of trouble repeatedly.
“You don’t want to get into them,” Alvarez said of the jams, “but you’ve just got to keep the composure and trust in the defense.”
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