Rockies blank Cardinals, 6-0, notch first shutout in 220 games

Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post on Jul 23, 2025

Published in Baseball

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DENVER — It’s been a long time coming, but the Rockies finally did it. They shut out an opponent.

They blanked the Cardinals, 6-0, on Wednesday afternoon at Coors Field, the Rockies’ first shutout since May 15, 2024, in an 8-0 victory over the Padres at San Diego. The 220-game drought was the longest of baseball’s modern era.

Starter Tanner Gordon, called up from Triple-A Albuquerque, pitched six scoreless innings, and relievers Jimmy Herget and Tyler Kinley finished the job.

And those weren’t your father’s Blake Street Bombers on Wednesday afternoon. More like your grandfather’s “Go Go Rox.”

Whatever the moniker, the Rockies played the brand of winning baseball that interim manager Warren Schaeffer has been preaching for two-plus months.

In beating the Cardinals to capture the three-game series, the Rockies had 12 hits, all of them singles save for Jordan Beck’s RBI double in the fifth.

Colorado won just its fourth series of the season and won its first rubber game after going 0 for 4 entering Wednesday.

Gordon, called up as right-hander German Marquez went on the 15-day injured list, was not overpowering. But Gordon kept St. Louis hitters off-balance, limiting them to just four hits. He struck out three, walked three and threw 65 of his 95 pitches for strikes. After four big league starts this season, Gordon is 2-2 with a 3.13 ERA.

Colorado scored four runs in the second inning off St. Louis right-hander Andre Pallante. A leadoff walk by Ryan McMahon was followed up by five consecutive singles by Austin Nola, Kyle Farmer, Adael Amador, Tyler Freeman and Mickey Moniak.