Rockies' German Marquez blasted as Cubs cruise at 'Wrigley Field West'

Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post on Aug 29, 2025

Published in Baseball

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DENVER — It was a perfect Friday night for baseball at Coors Field. The first-pitch temperature was 73 degrees, there were 33,747 fans in the stands, and six home runs.

Yep, perfect if you were one of the multitude of Cubs fans who turned the LoDo ballpark into Wrigley Field West, saw shortstop Dansby Swanson smack two homers and a triple, and cheered your team on to an 11-7 victory over the Rockies.

But for Colorado starter German Marquez, it was a game to forget.

Making his first start since going on the injured list with right biceps tendinitis on July 21, Marquez was gone after 4 1/3 innings, having given up eight runs on nine hits. He walked three, struck out none and served up two home runs.

Swanson ripped a two-run homer to left-center in the second, Ian Happ led off the fourth with a blast to left to give the Cubs a 3-0 lead. It was still a manageable game for Marquez — until he got blown up in the fifth when Chicago scored six runs. The big blow was Happ’s two-run double.

Marquez got the hook when he walked the bases full, putting reliever Jaden Hill in a precarious spot against the suddenly sizzling Swanson. He ripped a three-run triple on a night when he drove in a season-high six runs. His career high is seven RBIs, though his 11 total bases set a career high.

Colorado right-hander Antonio Senzatela, working out of the bullpen after getting removed from the starting rotation earlier this week, got hit hard. Swanson led off the seventh with a 441-foot homer to center, and Michael Busch followed with a two-out homer to center. Busch hammered Senzatela’s 1-0, 94.2-mph fastball 466 feet to center.

Chicago starter Cade Horton, who entered the game with a 0.49 ERA since the All-Star break, tamed the Coors Field beast, for the most part. Rockies designated hitter Yanquiel Fernandez tagged him for a two-run homer in the fourth. Horton (9-4, 2.92 ERA) allowed two runs on six hits over five innings. He struck out four and walked two.

Fernandez, who homered at Houston on Thursday, also led off the eighth with a double and jogged home on Kyle Farmer’s pinch-hit homer off former Rockies pitcher Drew Pomeranz.

The Rockies, as is their wont, rallied late and got a three-hit game from catcher Hunter Goodman and a two-hit night from center fielder Brenton Doyle. Colorado cranked out 14 hits but was 2 for 16 with runners in scoring position, while Chicago had 15 hits and was 5 for 13 with RISP.