Rockies complete 4‑game sweep
The Colorado Rockies finished a four‑game sweep to push their winning streak to four, a small but meaningful hot stretch early in the MLB season. Sweeps like that can reset clubhouse momentum and give managers short‑term breathing room on rotation and lineup decisions. (x.com)
Colorado just spent four days doing something it almost never gets credit for: beating one of the American League’s deepest lineups four times in a row. The Rockies finished the sweep of Houston with a 9-1 win on April 8 and moved to 6-6 after starting the season 2-6. (mlb.com 1) (mlb.com 2) That last part matters because the first week looked rough fast. On April 3, in the home opener, Michael Lorenzen gave up 9 earned runs in 3 innings, and five days later he came back against the same Astros club and allowed 1 run in 5 2/3 innings for his first win of 2026. (mlb.com 1) (mlb.com 2) The sweep started after Colorado dropped the first game of the homestand to Philadelphia on April 4. The Rockies then beat the Phillies on April 5 and followed with three straight wins over Houston on April 6, April 7, and April 8 to turn one loss into a four-game streak. (mlb.com 1) (mlb.com 2) (mlb.com 3) Houston was not some soft landing spot. Entering the April 8 game, the Astros were 6-6 and had scored 79 runs, which was one of the highest totals in the American League West, before Colorado held them to 1 run in the finale. (mlb.com) (mlb.com) The April 8 game turned in one inning. Colorado scored 5 runs in the second against Cristian Javier, with Edouard Julien driving in 2, Ezequiel Tovar doubling in 1, and Troy Johnston adding another run-scoring hit before Hunter Goodman homered later in the game. (mlb.com) (mlb.com) That burst fits how Coors Field works when the home team gets traffic early. A park that can feel like a treadmill for pitchers starts feeling like a downhill street for hitters once a lineup forces extra pitches and gets men on base. (mlb.com) The standings are still small-sample weird in early April, but the Rockies woke up on April 9 at.500 and only 3 games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League West. For a club that finished 2025 outside the race, getting back to even this quickly changes the tone of every next-day decision. (mlb.com) Now the test changes. Colorado left that homestand for a four-game road series in San Diego starting April 9, which means the next question is whether a team that just went 4-2 at home can carry the same contact and pitching into Petco Park, where games usually tighten up. (mlb.com)
