Red-hot Jordan Beck homers twice but Rockies lose to Reds

Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post on Apr 26, 2025

Published in Baseball

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DENVER — Jordan Beck has suddenly morphed into Mickey Mantle.

The 24-year-old left fielder hit two home runs — he has five dingers in his last three games — and brought the Colorado Rockies to the brink of victory on a raw, drizzly Friday night at Coors Field.

Beck’s 437-foot solo shot off Tony Santillan in the eighth inning pulled Colorado to within a run. But it wasn’t enough as the Cincinnati Reds held on for an 8-7 win.

On a night when the Rockies’ offense finally heated up, pitching let them down, sending them to their fourth consecutive loss that left them with a 4-21 record.

Cincinnati broke a 6-6 stalemate in the seventh, scoring two runs on one hit, a hit by pitch, three costly walks, and a throwing error by third baseman Ryan McMahon. Rockies veteran lefty Scott Alexander issued a base-loaded walk to Blake Dunn to score Spencer Steer with the go-ahead run. TJ Friedl followed with an RBI groundout to first to score Santiago Espinal from third.

The Rockies’ stalled offense finally got in gear. In addition to Beck’s two homers, Hunter Goodman doubled twice and walked twice, and Michael Toglia went 3 for 5 and delivered two clutch hits.

In a three-run third inning that tied the game 3-3, the Rockies put together the kind of inning that has eluded them most of the season. Beck led off with a 404-foot homer to left off lefty starter Andrew Abbott.

Sean Bouchard dumped a single to right, Goodman and Mickey Moniak drew walks to load the bases for Toglia, who came to the plate with a .154 average with runners in scoring position. He came through with a two-out, two-run, ground-rule double to left center.

The Rockies rallied again with two runs in the fifth, tying the game 6-6. Doubles by Goodman and Jacob Stallings, Toglia’s RBI single and a pinch-hit sacrifice fly by Brenton Doyle got Colorado back in the game.

Rockies lefty Kyle Freeland made his 206th career start, tying him with Aaron Cook for the most in franchise history. It was a forgettable start, partly Freeland’s own doing and partly misfortune.

Freeland gave up six runs on 10 hits, including a two-run homer to Steer in the Reds’ three-run third. But several of the Reds’ hits were seeing-eye singles. In Cincinnati’s two-run fifth, Espinal squeaked an RBI single past second baseman Adael Amadore, who tried to avoid contact with the Reds’ Noelvi Marte, who was running from first to second.