Colorado Rockies at Detroit Tigers

Sun Sep 1312:10 PM ETDetroit, MI
By JR·2 min read

TLDR: Detroit needed one more win to finish off Colorado, and Jackson Jobe made sure it never got interesting, working into the 7th while the offense buried Gabriel Hughes early at Comerica Park.

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Detroit finished off a 3-game sweep of Colorado behind Jackson Jobe's career-high 8 strikeouts and an early offensive outburst that chased Gabriel Hughes after 2 innings. The 8-1 final extended Detroit's winning streak to 4 and Colorado's skid further, with the outcome effectively decided before the 3rd inning.

Colorado Rockies
  • Plated a run in the 1st before Hughes unraveled
  • Bullpen held Detroit to just 3 runs over final 6 innings
  • Hughes allowed 5 runs on 5 hits in only 2 innings
  • Nick Frasso served up Torkelson's solo homer in the 5th
  • Swept in the series, outscored across all 3 games
Detroit Tigers
  • Jobe struck out a career-high 8 across 6.1 innings
  • Riley Greene's 2-run homer set the tone in the 1st
  • Torkelson added a solo shot off relief in the 5th
  • Bullpen still worn from Saturday's late rally
  • Missing Verlander and Flaherty leaves the rotation thin behind Jobe

Jobe (2-2, 3.89 ERA entering Sunday) was six starts removed from Tommy John surgery and had been capped near 5 innings his last time out, but he blew past that Sunday, striking out a career-high 8 across 6.1 innings. Hughes lasted just 2, allowing 5 runs on 5 hits as his rebuilt ERA over his last two starts unraveled in a hurry.

Gabriel Hughes
Gabriel Hughes
(0-8)·6.33 ERA
Sep 8 @ Yankees
L
5.0IP
1ER
6K
0BB
79P
09/13 Lineup
Jackson Jobe
Jackson Jobe
(3-3)·3.91 ERA
Sep 6 @ Guardians
ND
5.0IP
2ER
7K
2BB
93P
09/13 Lineup

Riley Greene did the early damage with a 2-run homer in the 1st, his 20th of the season for a third straight year, and Detroit tacked on 5 more in the 2nd on John Peck's RBI single and Kevin McGonigle's 2-run triple. Colorado, already down 3 rotation arms rehabbing in the minors, had nothing behind Hughes to slow the bleeding.

Nick Frasso came on in relief and gave up a solo homer to Spencer Torkelson in the 5th, extending the margin further. The Polymarket room's busiest 5-minute stretch lined up right with that 2nd-inning outburst, and even as Detroit pulled away, one poster still asked, "Can Rockies score a few runs?" while another, holding Colorado, wrote simply, "Rockies got it."

Colorado's bullpen actually settled things down after that, limiting Detroit to just 3 runs over the final 6 innings, but the early hole was already too deep. The loss extended Colorado's road skid, and the Rockies close the book on this set having been outscored across all 3 games.

09/13L@Tigers1-8
09/12L@Tigers7-11
09/11L@Tigers2-6
09/10L@Yankees3-10
09/09L@Yankees1-6
09/13WvsRockies8-1
09/12WvsRockies11-7
09/11WvsRockies6-2
09/09WvsTwins7-2
09/08LvsTwins2-3

Detroit's bullpen barely had to pitch behind Jobe's long outing, a small mercy after needing 7 runs in the 8th just to escape Saturday's game. The Tigers are still missing Justin Verlander and Jack Flaherty from the rotation, and Keider Montero was overseas for the birth of his child, but the group in uniform Sunday didn't need reinforcements.

None of this moved the standings. Colorado is playing out a lost season and Detroit remains outside Wild Card position, but the sweep still closes the book on a series Detroit controlled from the opening pitch of game 1.

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