Jason Hammel pitched 7 1-3 crisp innings and Clint Barmes had a two-run double, lifting the Colorado Rockies to a 5-1 victory over the Houston Astros on Monday night. Hammel's strained groin appears to be fully mended as he turned in another solid ...

Andres Torres hit a two-out RBI single in the 10th inning and the San Francisco Giants handed the Arizona Diamondbacks their seventh consecutive loss with a 6-5 victory on Sunday. Torres hit a sharp liner to right off Carlos Rosa (0-1) for the first ...

DENVER (Reuters) - Los Angeles Dodgers left-fielder Manny Ramirez moved above Mike Schmidt on the all-time home run list on Friday with the 549th of his career. Ramirez's two-run homer off Colorado left hander Jeff Francis in the sixth inning moved him to 14th on the list. The two RBIs also moved him into a tie for 18th with Frank ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ubaldo Jimenez became the first pitcher in Major League Baseball to reach nine wins for the season on Wednesday when the Colorado Rockies beat the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks 7-3 at Coors Field. The hard-throwing Dominican right-hander held the D-Backs scoreless over eight innings, yielding six hits as he raised his record to 9-1 and lowered his MLB-best ...

The Colorado Rockies inked infielder Kazuo Matsui to a minor league contract on Tuesday. Matsui was waived by the Houston Astros last week and cleared waivers on Monday to become a free agent. Matsui was batting .141 this season with the Astros but was hitless in his last 20 appearances at the plate. Matsui, the first Japanese infielder signed to ...

Jhoulys Chacin pitched six solid innings, Brad Hawpe and Troy Tulowitzki homered and the Colorado Rockies beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-2 on Tuesday night. Todd Helton had three hits for the Rockies, who have won three straight. Conor Jackson doubled in a run and scored another for ...

Jeff Francis and three relievers combined on a six-hitter and Troy Tulowitzki homered to help the Colorado Rockies beat the Kansas City Royals 3-0 on Saturday. Francis, who won 17 games in 2007 and missed all of last season after having shoulder surgery, earned his first victory since Aug. 25, 2008 ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - The indomitable Ubaldo Jimenez pitched seven scoreless innings on Thursday en route to a Major League-leading eighth win that snapped a three-game losing skid for the Colorado Rockies. Jimenez, who tossed a no-hitter last month, allowed one hit in his team's 4-0 win over the hapless Houston Astros and lowered his ERA to 0.99, the best ...

Cory Sullivan hit a go-ahead single in the eighth inning, Jeff Keppinger drove in a career-high four runs and the Houston Astros snapped a five-game losing streak with a 7-3 win over the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday night. Sullivan broke a 3-all tie with a two-out single off ...

Aramis Ramirez hit a two-run homer in the 11th inning, his first home run in more than a month, lifting the Chicago Cubs to a 4-2 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Monday night. Starlin Castro opened the 11th with his third hit of the game, a ...