Rockies lose two infielders to injuries, buried by Jays’ sixth-inning barrage

DENVER — Rockies Report, Game 113:

ROCKIES BOTTOM LINE: After a 15-run deluge Monday night, the Toronto Blue Jays kept the pressure on Tuesday, blasting five home runs in dealing the Rox a 10-4 defeat in front of 25,141 at Coors Field on Tuesday.

To add injury to insult — literally — the Rox saw half of their infield pull up with injuries in the middle innings. In the fourth inning, infielder Orlando Arcia left immediately with an elbow injury after hitting a single to right field, his right arm dragging as he ran to first base after the hit.

“It happened on the swing, that’s all,” interim manager Warren Schaeffer said.

One inning later, second baseman Thairo Estrada pulled up with a hamstring injury after being thrown out at first base on a 6-4-3 double play.

Estrada already missed the first two months of the season with a non-displaced fracture in his right wrist.

Colorado took a 2-0 lead in the first on Hunter Goodman’s two-run shot to left field, his 22nd homer of the season. But that didn’t last, buried by the Blue Jays’ power onslaught.

going back…GONE! pic.twitter.com/skpPWOOkER

— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies) August 6, 2025

Colorado is 30-83.

ROCKIES STARTER’S REPORT

The third time through the order doomed Molina.

Aided by typically strong work in center field from Brenton Doyle, Molina soared through the Toronto lineup on his first time through, allowing a pair of hits, but erasing one by getting Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to ground into a 4-6-3 double play.

Oh my Doyle 😮‍💨 pic.twitter.com/tAgQB9w9Vt

— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies) August 6, 2025

The second time through was troublesome; he allowed a pair of home runs to Nathan Lukes and Dalton Varsho, but by the end of the fifth inning, he had kept the Rox in it; they trailed 3-2.

Molina started the third trip through the order by retiring Lukes and Bo Bichette on a pair of 6-3 groundouts to close the fifth inning. At 68 pitches, he seemed to have enough on pitch count to get through a few more batters.

But he was doing something he’d never tried as a major-leaguer: facing a lineup for a third time. This was, after all, only his second major-league start.

In the game of Pitching Press Your Luck, Molina and the Rox found the Whammy.

Molina’s first three pitches of the sixth inning to Guerrero missed inside, low and outside. The fourth settled on the outside corner of the strike zone and landed 398 feet away over the right-field scoreboard.

Addison Barger eked Molina’s next pitch — a slider — over the right-field fence. A four-pitch walk to Alejandro Kirk followed, with a subsequent first-pitch walk to Varsho, meaning that Molina’s first 10 pitches of the sixth inning included eight balls and two strikes that landed in the right-field seats.

Molina managed to work a 3-2 count to Varsho before he launched a 467-foot missile into the right-field stands.

FOUR HUNDRED SIXTY SEVEN FEET.

Even the camera lost it 😳 pic.twitter.com/DyjWygWIzW

— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) August 6, 2025

That was it for Molina, who saw five innings of solid work unravel rapidly in the sixth.

BITS AND PIECES

IT WAS DECIDED FOR THE ROCKIES WHEN: Varsho lined a Jaden Hill changeup to the right-field corner, bringing home two runs to pad Toronto’s lead to 10-4 in the ninth inning.

NUMBER TO NOTE: 11 — Average runs allowed per game by the Rockies during this homestand, as Pittsburgh and Toronto have scored 55 runs on the Rox in the last five games. Colorado has scored 35 runs — not bad; that’s an average of 7 per game, but the Rox have averaged 4.5 since Saturday, while they’ve allowed 9.75 runs per game in their last four outings.

WHAT’S NEXT: Kyle Freeland tries to help the Rox salvage the series finale in a duel of Colorado natives, with Toronto sending Grandview H.S. product Kevin Gausman to the mound. First pitch will be at 1:10 p.m. MDT.

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