Colorado
Oakland A’s find right formula to beat Colorado Rockies, end skid
OAKLAND – The Oakland A’s turned to the long ball to help end their season-long eight-game losing streak on Tuesday.
J.D. Davis, Seth Brown, and Abraham Toro all homered, with Toro’s shot over the right field wall in the bottom of the eighth inning proving to be the difference in the A’s 5-4 win over the Colorado Rockies before an announced crowd of 4,005 at the Coliseum.
A’s closer Mason Miller was electric as he touched 102.8 mph in the ninth inning with his fastball, striking out all three batters he faced to earn his ninth save of the season.
Toro’s solo home run was his fifth of the season, as he turned on an 89-mph slider from Rockies reliever Tyler Kinley.
Before Tuesday, the A’s were tied for fourth in the majors in home runs in May with 23.
Toro pumped his fist as he rounded first base as the A’s earned their first win since they beat Seattle 8-1 on May 11. Oakland went 1-9 on their recently completed road trip.
For six innings, the A’s were mostly stymied by Rockies starter and former Stanford standout Cal Quantrill.
The A’s got a badly needed homer from Davis in the third inning but managed just two other hits against Quantrill, who allowed three hits and two earned runs – and eight strikeouts — in six innings.
Against Quantrill, the A’s could only manage a Brent Rooker double in the fourth inning and a JJ Bleday triple in the sixth. Bleday then scored on a wild pitch from Quantrill.
That’s why the A’s, down 4-2, had to like seeing Justin Lawrence enter the game in the seventh inning. And after Zack Gelof walked, Brown smoked a 95-mph sinker from Lawrence 414 feet over the center field wall to tie the game 4-4.
The homer was Brown’s fifth of the season and his second in the last three games.
Davis hit his third home run of the season, and his first in 26 games since he hit two on March 29 against Cleveland.
The A’s would love to see him and Davis, two players who combined for 32 home runs last season, get hot as they try to pull out of an offensive malaise that has lasted most of May.
During this stretch before Tuesday, which saw them lose 13 of 15 games, the A’s scored three runs or fewer 10 times. Before Tuesday, Oakland, in the majors, had the third-lowest batting average (.220), were tied for third in fewest runs (180), had the fourth lowest on-base percentage (.295), and were tied for fourth in fewest stolen bases (21).
Strikeouts have been an absolute killer for the A’s. Before Tuesday, they had 151 in their last 15 games.
The home runs helped the A’s overcome so-so outings from starting pitcher Aaron Brooks, who allowed three earned runs over six innings. and veteran Scott Alexander allowed a solo home run in his two-thirds of an inning in relief.
A sculpture that currently sits inside a now-closed Aurora recreation center may get a new lease on life if the Aurora City Council approves a move.
The Beck Recreation Center closed last summer, and part of the building is scheduled for demolition. The remaining portion will serve as a golf shop for the nearby SpringHill Golf Course. That means a huge glass and metal sculpture installed in 2014 needs to be moved.
On Monday, Aurora’s city council will vote on a proposal to move it to Tallyn’s Reach Library. The artist, Reven Marie Swanson, has art installations across the country, and even some overseas.
“Without sounding like I’m bragging, my artwork is in 26 states, 38 municipalities in Colorado and in three countries, ” said Swanson.
She’s a sculptor who combines metalwork and glasswork to create unique pieces, like the one that currently sits inside the shuttered Beck Recreation Center.
“It’s called ‘Under the Swimming Pool,’ and it’s the idea about when you walk into the vestibule. It felt like I could create something that you could actually be under the water and looking up through the surface of the water as if you’re walking on the bottom of the pool,” said Swanson.
In the summer of 2025, structural issues shut the doors at Beck for good, and since then, Swanson’s sculpture has been stuck there.
“I was a little nervous because city governments are very quick to do what they call ‘de-access’ artwork. And I was really hoping that this piece wouldn’t get de-accessed,” said Swanson.
Luckily, the City of Aurora has other plans. They want to move the piece from Beck to Tallyn’s Reach Library.
Swanson says it should be a simple move, but the sculpture, which hangs from the ceiling, will have to be attached to the library’s ceiling in a new way, using new materials. But Swanson says she likes the new location.
“It’s a really beautiful building. It’s got wonderful light, which is going to interact really nicely with the glass,” said Swanson.
And she is glad it will live on, continuing to inspire and enchant Aurorans.
“When I walked into the library, the librarian, she was like, ‘I am so excited to get this art!’ And it makes an artist feel good. Like you accomplished something,” said Swanson.
The proposal, which will be heard at Monday’s city council meeting, is estimated by the city to cost between $15,000 and $25,000, primarily because of the cost of materials needed to suspend it at the new location. The initial cost to install it at Beck Recreation Center in 2014 was nearly $35,000 dollars.
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