The Colorado Rockies were hoping their offense would take flight after last night’s showing, but unfortunately it did not. Instead, the offense was limited to just four hits, while Chase Dollander got roughed up for the first time this season.
Colorado
Jackson County ranch cattle dog attacked by wolf, wildlife officials confirm
Colorado wolves kill sheep
A Grand County ranch lost eight sheep to wolves on July 28, 2024.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife has confirmed a dog was attacked by a wolf or wolves in Jackson County, just more than a month after the last confirmed wolf depredation, also in Jackson County.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife said in an email to the Coloradoan on Wednesday it is not sharing information other than what is posted on its confirmed wolf depredation page.
That report says the depredation occurred March 9 and involved one dog and that no claim has been filed.
CPW defines a depredation as physical trauma resulting in injury or death. It was not confirmed by the agency if the dog was injured or killed.
“CPW has team members working with the producer impacted, as well as surrounding producers to identify and deploy non-lethal wolf-livestock conflict minimization measures,” CPW spokesperson Travis Duncan, wrote in the email to the Coloradoan.
The Coloradoan sent an email March 13 asking CPW for details about the March 9 depredation after being notified of the incident by sources familiar with the situation.
CPW spokesperson Rachel Gonzales chose not to confirm or deny the attack when asked by the Coloradoan.
It was the second confirmed wolf depredation of livestock in Jackson County in just more than a month. The dog involved in the March 9 depredation was a working cattle dog, which is covered under the state’s wolf recovery plan compensation program.
CPW stated in a news release sent Feb. 15 a cow was confirmed killed by a wolf or wolves Feb. 5. Greg Sykes told the Coloradoan the depredation occurred on a ranch he manages about 12 miles west of Walden.
That depredation was the first recognized as being from a wolf not familiar to the state wildlife agency.
CPW said in the release the depredation was not by released wolves fitted with collars or two uncollared wolves the state acknowledges have been in the state.
The ranch was paid $2,097.66 for the loss, according to CPW’s wolf depredation page.
The March 9 depredation was the first confirmed by a wolf of a dog since March 13, 2023, when members of the North Park pack killed Sykes’ working cattle border collie, and injured a pet dog on a neighboring ranch.
Sykes was paid $15,000 for his loss, the maximum compensation allowed under the state’s wolf recovery plan. Pet dogs are not covered under the plan.
North Park pack members injured a working cattle dog and killed a pet dog on the same ranch northeast of Walden in January of 2022. That claim totaled $1,252.72.
An uncollared wolf was in the area where the recent wolf depredation occurred
The March 9 depredation did not take place near the Feb. 5 depredation in Jackson County, according to Jackson County rancher Don Gittleson, who out of respect for the ranch’s privacy declined to comment on specifics of where the most recent depredation took place.
Gittleson told the Coloradoan, he saw a wolf on his ranch northeast of Walden on March 17. He said he was feeding cattle a mile from his house when he had a clear view of the wolf from about 150 yards away as it looked at him before moving off over a rise.
Gittleson has seen numerous wolves on his ranch in person and said it was without question a wolf.
Gittleson said he did not see a collar on it but that it could have been hid by the wolf’s fur.
He said he called the sighting in to CPW and asked if there were collared wolves in the area. He said the person he spoke to said there were no collared wolves in the area but that they would check on the latest data collected from GPS collars and give him an update.
“I never heard a peep, which leads me to believe we have an uncollared wolf around here,” Gittleson said. “I asked because there’s been a lot of talk around here about the uncollared wolves people are seeing. I guess that means we have at least one more uncollared wolf up here.”
CPW acknowledges 29 collared wolves in the state plus two uncollared wolves.
Brennan Bernardino served as the opener, and he left Dollander with a mess right off the bat. Bernardino failed to get out of the first inning giving up a single to Ronald Acuña Jr., and then he surrendering a two-run homer to Drake Baldwin to make it a 2-0 ballgame with zero outs in the first.
Ozzie Albies then doubled before Matt Olson finally flew out to center record the first out for Bernardino. A wild pitch allowed him to advance to third, and then Bernardino struck out Michael Harris II.
Warren Schaeffer likely envisioned Bernardino finishing at least the first inning, if not multiple innings, but ended up lifting him after just 0.2 innings. Dollander entered and immediately walked Mauricio Dubón, but then struck out Austin Riley to limit the damage.
The Braves Chase’d Dollander
Dollander started off the second inning strong with a strikeout of Mike Yastrzemski, but then gave up a double to Jorge Mateo. Acuña then came up to the plate and grounded out, but he pulled up halfway to first base. Hopefully it’s not an extended injury, given his history.
Next up, Baldwin singled to score Mateo and put the Braves up 3-0 but then Ozzie Albies struck out to end the inning.
Dollander recorded a 1-2-3 third, but the fourth and fifth got dicey.
The fourth started off with a walk to Austin Riley, which inevitably came back around to haunt. Yastrzemsky popped out to Karros, but then Riley stole second and then was knocked to third by a Mateo single. Eli White — who entered for Acuña — bunted, which scored Riley and moved Mateo to third. Baldwin struck again, though, with an RBI double to put the Braves up 5-1 and then Albies hit a sac fly to score White. Matt Olson flied out to end the inning, but the damage was done.
The fifth inning started with a single by Harris, which turned into two bases on an error committed by Troy Johnston. Dubón grounded out, but Riley homered to center to put the Braves up 8-1.
It was just Dollander’s fourth home run allowed this year, but he came back to get Yastrzemski and Mateo.
The sixth featured a lot of traffic, but nobody came around to score. Dollander was lifted after the sixth with a final line of 5.1 IP, 8 H, 6 ER, 3 BB, 3 K, 1 HR. He threw 97 pitches, 61 for strikes.
“I thought (Dollander) was just a little behind today,” Schaeffer said after the game. “I think (it was) unusual, with some walks. The breaking ball and the off-speed stuff — not enough strikes out of those so he relied on his fastball a little more. And they got him. I mean, that’s a good lineup. Tip your hat to that lineup, it’s a really good lineup.”
Dollander echoed that postgame with the media.
“I just didn’t get ahead and then didn’t put guys away when I needed to,” he said. “I started falling behind when I got ahead and it’s not conducive to success.”
When asked about pitching behind an opener versus starting, Dollander responded that it doesn’t change his mentality.
“I’m just trying to get the guys innings and put up zeroes just like I was when I was starting,” he said. “The mentality does not change at all. If you fall into that trap, it’s not good for pitching.”
You can watch Dollander’s full postgame interview here (courtesy of Patrick Saunders).
The Rockies offense, once again, was MIA tonight. They did not record a hit until the third inning, when Kyle Karros singled to lead off the inning. Ezequiel Tovar and Troy Johnston both flied out to center, but then Jordan Beck smacked a double to (barely) score Karros and end the shutout.
Brenton Doyle struck out, but at least the Rockies plated a run.
But that was the end of the scoring.
There was some traffic in the fifth, when Karros and Tovar walked back-to-back to start the inning, but Johnston grounded into a force out, Beck was called out on strikes, and Doyle struck out swinging to strand the runners.
Their next hit wouldn’t come until the seventh, when Brett Sullivan led off with a single. But then three-straight strikeouts stranded him at first. Willi Castro got a hit with one out in the ninth, but Sullivan grounded into a double play to end the game.
In total the Rockies offense mustered just four hits, but walked three times and struck out 12 (11 of those were against Chris Sale).
The Rox will look to avoid the sweep at the hands of the Braves tomorrow afternoon. Kyle Freeland will face Spencer Strider, who is making his 2026 debut. First pitch is at 1:10pm.
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Colorado community concerned about wildfire risk, over 1,000 residents practice evacuation drills
Most experts agree that the summer of 2026 could be a very active and dangerous fire season in Colorado. That’s why one of the state’s most vulnerable communities spent their Saturday morning preparing.
Much like the meager melting snowfall, it started off as a trickle, eventually gathering at a lower elevation. It was the stream of people in the hills of Evergreen evacuating their homes.
“We are petrified, it is so dry. It has never been this dry. We’ve always worried about wildfires, but this year it’s not an if but a when, I think,” said Evergreen resident Sarah Forbes.
This wasn’t an emergency, just a drill put on by Clear Creek and Evergreen firefighters and the Clear Creek and Jefferson County Sheriff’s Offices. They say practice is important because if a fire starts in or near Evergreen, getting people to safety will take a lot of work.
“The roads weren’t built for mass evacuations. The populations are growing up here in the mountains, and getting that many people out in a very short period of time is going to be a challenge,” said Evergreen Fire Chief Michael Weege.
The drill gives the fire and sheriff’s departments data they can use in a real emergency, and highlights flaws in the system that can be fixed ahead of time.
“We’re hearing some things about the 911 system itself. The notice came out as spam on their phone, and that could be a setting on their phone not recognizing the number,” said Weege.
And residents got a chance to shore up their own evacuation plans. Forbes said they had to re-evaluate things partway through the evacuation drill.
“We had already packed our bags a while back, and we had a list of last minute items to plan to grab. And then my husband starts pulling up with all these bins and boxes from the basement. I was like, ‘What is all this?’” said Forbes. “He thought we were taking two cars.”
Forbes said she’d rather take one car and that they would need to pare down the items they bring during an evacuation.
Officials say they were blown away by the community’s willingness to participate in this exercise. They say they were expecting a couple of dozen volunteers to evacuate their homes. Instead, they got around 1,300.
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