"The Colorado Rockies began their 2025 season at Steinbrenner Field, playing the displaced Tampa Bay Rays at the Yankees' spring training facility in Tampa, Florida. The Rockies and Rays were tied 2-2 when Colorado's Victor Vodnik came on to pitch in the bottom of the ninth. He threw one 97 mph fastball -- which Rays outfielder Kameron Misner, a 27-year-old rookie, deposited into the right-field bleachers for a winning home run."
""I'd be lying if I said it hasn't been difficult," starting pitcher Kyle Freeland told ESPN's Jesse Rogers. "We have a ton of young guys and we're trying to pull in the same direction to get us back on track to where we want to go, but it's been a very difficult year. This second half has felt like we can breathe a little bit more. We've played better baseball but we're kind of hot and cold, really.""
The Rockies opened 2025 with an Opening Day loss when rookie Kameron Misner hit a 97 mph fastball for a walk-off, his first major-league home run. The team then tumbled to a 9-50 start, raising talk of historic futility and drawing comparisons to the 1899 Cleveland Spiders while threatening modern loss records. The club improved after the All-Star break and avoided surpassing last season's 121-loss mark, but still reached 100 losses and were outscored by 362 runs. A young roster produced inconsistent, often poor play, with signs of marginal improvement later in the season.
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