Rockies' Ezequiel Tovar: Wraps up productive homestand
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Tovar went 1-for-4 with two RBI on Wednesday against the Diamondbacks.
The performance wrapped up a productive six-game homestand for Tovar, as he went 7-for-26 with three home runs, six RBI and four runs scored. He's enjoyed a breakout season, highlighted by 25 homers and a .202 ISO -- a 47-point improvement from 2023.
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Rockies' Ezequiel Tovar: Achieves 25-homer season
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Tovar went 3-for-5 with a solo home run, an additional RBI and an additional run scored in Tuesday's 8-2 win over the Diamondbacks.
Tovar supplied a solo shot in the third inning and an RBI single in the sixth. The shortstop has homered three times over his last five games, going 6-for-22 (.273) in that span. This is his first 25-homer campaign, and he's added a .266/.293/.469 slash line with 70 RBI, 80 runs scored and six stolen bases over 147 contests.
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Rockies' Ezequiel Tovar: Homers in win
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Tovar went 1-for-4 with a solo home run and two strikeouts in Monday's 3-2 win over the Diamondbacks.
Tovar showed of his power Monday when he took Merrill Kelly deep to the right-center field bullpen. It was Tovar's 24th homer of the season, which ties him with Michael Toglia for the team lead. Tovar entered August slashing .290/.314/.491 but has struggled mightily since to the tune of .194/.229/.388 with six homers and 16 RBI over his last 40 games.
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Rockies' Ezequiel Tovar: Back in action Tuesday
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Tovar (sports hernia) will start at shortstop and bat second in Tuesday's game versus the Marlins.
Tovar missed Monday's game while dealing with a sports hernia, but it wound up being just a one-day absence. The 23-year-old has struggled so far in August with just a .482 OPS.
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Rockies' Ezequiel Tovar: Expected back Tuesday
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Tovar, who was given the day off Monday while dealing with a sports hernia, is expected to be in the starting lineup for Tuesday's game against the Marlins, Patrick Lyons of JustBaseball.com reports.
The Rockies failed to disclose much about Tovar's issue prior to this point, which could be one of the causes for his struggles at the dish so far in August. However, the issue shouldn't force the 23-year-old shortstop to miss additional time assuming he feels ready to play ahead of Tuesday's matchup.
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Rockies' Ezequiel Tovar: Minimal production in August
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Tovar went 1-for-5 on Sunday against the Yankees.
Tovar had a productive weekend series in New York, going 4-for-13 with three doubles and two runs scored. However, he's endured significant struggles throughout August by hitting just .178 with an abysmal 34 percent strikeout rate and 3.2 percent walk rate. Positively, he still has 11 runs scored in 21 games for the month.
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Rockies' Ezequiel Tovar: Not starting Sunday
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Tovar is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Padres, Jeff Sanders of The San Diego Union-Tribune reports.
Tovar started the previous 24 games but will sit Sunday while in the midst of a 3-for-19 slump. Aaron Schunk will take over at shortstop and bat ninth in the series finale versus San Diego.
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Rockies' Ezequiel Tovar: Swats 18th homer
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Tovar went 2-for-3 with a solo home run, an additional RBI and two total runs scored in Tuesday's 10-7 loss to the Angels.
Tovar provided the Rockies' last run with a solo shot in the seventh inning. It was his second multi-hit effort in a row, and it extended his hitting streak to 16 games, a span in which he's lifted six homers and driven in 15 runs. Tovar is up to a .290/.315/.493 slash line with 18 long balls, 52 RBI, 57 runs scored and four stolen bases over 105 contests this year.
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Rockies' Ezequiel Tovar: Racks up three hits in loss
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Tovar went 3-for-5 with two doubles and two runs scored in Sunday's 5-4 loss to the Giants.
Tovar's hitting streak is up to 15 games, with this being his ninth multi-hit effort in that span. During the streak, he's gone 28-for-66 (.424) with five home runs, seven doubles, 13 RBI and 13 runs scored. The shortstop's surge has him up to a .287/.313/.485 slash line for the season, and he's added 17 homers, 50 RBI, 55 runs and 31 doubles across 104 contests.
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Rockies' Ezequiel Tovar: Cleared to rejoin lineup
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Tovar will start at shortstop and bat second in Monday's game against the Red Sox.
Tovar was held out of the lineup Sunday in what was believed to be a routine rest day, but Patrick Lyons of JustBaseball.com relays that the shortstop has been dealing with flu-like symptoms. Though Tovar isn't yet feeling 100 percent, he showed enough improvement overnight to re-enter the starting nine for the series opener with the Red Sox.
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Rockies' Ezequiel Tovar: Not starting Sunday
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Tovar is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Giants, Patrick Lyons of JustBaseball.com reports.
The 22-year-old has started 96 of Colorado's 99 games this season and has multiple hits in each of his past five contests, so it's a bit of a surprise he's on the bench so early after the All-Star break. Aaron Schunk will receive a start at shortstop Sunday in Tovar's absence.
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Rockies' Ezequiel Tovar: Extends multi-hit streak
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Tovar went 2-for-4 with a two-run home run and two runs scored in Saturday's win over the Giants.
Tovar singled and scored in his first trip to the plate before adding a two-run shot in the fifth to put Colorado on top 4-2. It marked the shortstop's fifth consecutive multi-hit performance and his third game in a row with at least one home run. Tovar has also hit safely in eight consecutive games, batting .441 (15-for-34) over that stretch with four homers, four doubles, nine RBI and seven runs scored.
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Rockies' Ezequiel Tovar: Getting rare day off
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Tovar is out of the lineup for Wednesday's game against the Brewers.
Wednesday marks Tovar's third day off this season, as the 22-year-old yields to Aaron Schunk at shortstop. Tovar is slashing .276/.304/.459 with 12 home runs across 371 plate appearances.
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Rockies' Ezequiel Tovar: Hitting streak ends
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Tovar went 0-for-4 Sunday against the Pirates.
Tovar went hitless for the first time in his last eight starts, and in that span, he hit .393 with three home runs, 10 RBI and six runs scored. That stretch helped him continue to build on an impressive breakout season, as he's hitting .290 with a .809 OPS to go along with 11 homers and four stolen bases across 70 contests.
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Rockies' Ezequiel Tovar: Posts big stat line Saturday
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Tovar went 4-for-4 with two home runs and four total RBI in Saturday's 6-5 win against St. Louis.
Tovar kicked off the scoring in the first inning with an RBI single to left field. That was just the beginning of a massive performance by the young shortstop -- he added a solo homer in the sixth and a tiebreaking two-run shot in the seventh. The four-hit game was Tovar's second of the campaign, and he finished with his second multi-homer performance of the season. Tovar is somewhat quietly enjoying a breakout 2024, slashing .294/.326/.487 with 10 homers, 28 RBI, 34 runs and four stolen bases through 282 plate appearances.
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Rockies' Ezequiel Tovar: Starring role in win
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Tovar went 3-for-4 with a solo home run and an additional run scored in Friday's 4-1 win over the Dodgers.
Tovar was the only Rockie with multiple hits in the contest. This was his 10th multi-hit effort over his last 16 games, a span in which he's batting .356 (26-for-73) with four homers, nine RBI, 14 runs scored and one stolen base. The shortstop is up to a .294/.328/.481 slash line with eight homers, 24 RBI, 30 runs scored, four steals, 17 doubles and a triple over 55 contests this season. He still hits far better at home (.862 OPS), but he's been passable on the road this season as well with a .757 OPS away from Coors Field.
Tovar went 4-for-6 with a double and two RBI in Friday's victory over Philadelphia.
Tovar had a career night against the Phillies, collecting his first ever four-hit game and driving home the winning run in extras. The Colorado shortstop has been hot over his last 10 games, batting .347 (17-for-49) with three homers, eight runs scored and eight RBI. Overall, Tovar sports a .285/.317/.473 slash line in 221 plate appearances this season.
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Rockies' Ezequiel Tovar: Breaks out of slump
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Tovar went 3-for-5 with two runs batted in and a run scored during Wednesday's loss to the Phillies.
Tovar entered the game 1-for-14 (.071) over his last four games but snapped the cold spell with his seventh multi-hit performance of the campaign. While he's striking out at an alarming 31.3 percent clip, Tovar ranks top three on the Rockies in hits (22), RBI (10) and runs scored (nine) while slashing .306/.363/.486.
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Rockies' Ezequiel Tovar: Homer, stolen base in win
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Tovar went 2-for-5 with a home run, a stolen base, two total runs scored and two total RBI in Friday's 12-4 victory over Toronto.
Tovar extended Colorado's lead to 8-2 with a solo homer off Paolo Espino in the seventh inning, his third long ball of the year. It's Tovar's fourth straight multi-hit game and his sixth in his last seven contests -- he's gone 13-for-29 with three doubles and two homers in that span. The 22-year-old Tovar is now batting .340 with a .975 OPS, three home runs, eight RBI and two stolen bases through his first 53 at-bats this season.
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Rockies' Ezequiel Tovar: Gets leadoff look against lefty
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Tovar went 3-for-5 with a double and a run scored Wednesday against the Diamondbacks.
Tovar hit atop the Rockies order for the second time this season, though both came with Charlie Blackmon out of the lineup. He's likely to move back down the lineup for the foreseeable future, but he has hit well to start the campaign by collecting at least one hit in 10 of 13 games. While the sample is small, Tovar has shown some promising changes in his batted ball profile, including increased launch angle and barrel rate.
