The Rockies hung around but the game got away late in a 7-1 loss to the Brewers

Coming into tonight’s matchup, it felt like the Colorado Rockies had an uphill battle to fight against the red hot Milwaukee Brewers and their flamethrowing ace Jacob Misiorowski . The Miz leads the league in strikeouts while the Rockies offense is bottom-five in that department.

The game seemed like it would hang on starting pitching even more so because of concerns around Zach Agnos and his return to the majors. He got roughed up in his last two bullpen appearances, giving up seven runs in each.

On paper, it felt like the Rockies could be susceptible to giving up a lot of runs early and like they might not be able to get many baserunners on, falling into a deep hole.

Those things didn’t quite play out that way. Agnos didn’t last long, but was able to minimize the early damage. Misiorowski posted eight strikeouts and was as formidable as expected. The Rockies were able to put him in a couple of somewhat vulnerable positions, but couldn’t capitalize on his (limited) mistakes. The bullpen allowed the game to get out of hand in the late innings and a slew of solo homers broke the game open in the late innings.

Agnos made his first start since May 21st . He performed considerably better in that lone start than he has as a bullpen arm lately. Luckily, that trend continued tonight, although he wasn’t flawless.

After getting the first two batters to line out and ground out, Agnos couldn’t notch the final out and gave up a solo home run to Brice Turang .

Agnos followed that with a walk to Jake Bauers before escaping the inning down 1-0.

The second inning was essentially identical. Agnos got through the first two batters fairly easily before giving up another solo shot, this time to David Hamilton . After Hamilton, Agnos walked Christian Yelich and then secured the third out.