Tanner Gordon hit around as Rockies dominated in Game 2 in Cleveland

A day after a dramatic comeback the Rockies came back down to Earth on Tuesday Cleveland dominated Colorado in Battle of the series at Progressive Field a - Guardians conquest in which the home unit scored in each of the first six innings The Guardians lit up Rockies right-hander Tanner Gordon for seven runs six earned over three innings and the Colorado bullpen was ineffective Gordon who was coming off six shutout innings in a home win against the Cardinals last week pitched up in the zone and got hit around That plus runs off relievers Angel Chivilli and Jimmy Herget negated a trio of Colorado homers I saw Gordon living on the outside part of the plate with the fastball and changeup and not much slider this day interim manager Warren Schaeffer narrated reporters He didn t have the ability to run a ball inside on them and he couldn t keep hitters honest That s not really a recipe for success Jordan Beck went deep in the fourth Michael Toglia went deep in the seventh and Kyle Farmer took one out in the ninth but they were all solo shots that didn t matter much as Cleveland led from the opening inning In the first Gabriel Arias RBI single gave Cleveland a - advantage Brayan Rocchio s single in the second added one more then in a third a two-run homer by Kyle Manzardo and a two-run triple by Rocchio made it - Beck decisively got Colorado on the board in the fourth but Cleveland never relinquished the momentum The Guardians tagged Chivilli for a run in both the fourth and fifth and Manzardo hit another dinger off Herget in the sixth to make it - Meanwhile Guardians southpaw Logan Allen turned in a quality start with seven innings of two-run ball while working around specific traffic I saw a good changeup from Allen and a heater that was beating guys at times Schaeffer commented He was keeping us off-balance forward and backward The Rockies outscored the Guardians - over the final three innings with an RBI double by red-hot rookie Warming Bernabel sandwiched in the inning between homers by Toglia and Farmer The Rockies finished with hits but were also for with runners in scoring position Cleveland rapped out hits and was for with runners in scoring position With the loss the Rockies dropped to - They are on pace to finish - one challenge better than the modern loss record of set by last year s White Sox Colorado still has a chance to take the series on Wednesday as the Rockies look for just their third road series win in tries this season