Denver, CO
Jake Cave’s clutch hits, red-hot Brenton Doyle lift Rockies to comeback win over Giants in first game out of All-Star break
Jake Cave’s juice launched the Rockies to a comeback win over the Giants on Friday at Coors Field.
The veteran outfielder, a stop-gap on a one-year contract for a team in transition, was a difference maker again to lead Colorado to a victory in the first game out of the All-Star break. Cave scored the tying run in the seventh after roping a leadoff pinch-hit double, then the next inning, he gave Chatfield alum Tyler Rogers a rude welcome home via the deciding three-run homer.
Cave’s clutch hits, along with another homer from the red-hot Brenton Doyle, made up for a slow offensive start in the 7-3 triumph over San Francisco in the series opener in front of 40,115.
“The way Cave plays baseball is what we want the whole team to do,” right-hander Cal Quantrill said. “He has great energy, and his approach and ability to stay in the game mentally and come into the game late and make that kind of impact is special.”
The Giants scored first in the second inning on a two-out, sinking line drive to left by Thairo Estrada. Sean Bouchard charged in and dove at the ball, but it went under his glove and rolled to the wall. That resulted in a two-RBI triple for a 2-0 visitors lead.
San Francisco added on the next inning, with Patrick Bailey’s RBI groundout to push the score to 3-0.
Meanwhile, the Rockies had just one hit through the first five innings as they struggled to get anything going against rookie Kyle Harrison. The southpaw struck out six, and Colorado also couldn’t capitalize on four walks.
After Quantrill polished off his quality start by working around Mike Yastrzemski’s single in the sixth, the Rockies offense finally came to life against right-hander Randy Rodriguez.
Elias Diaz was grazed by a pitch — and initially wanted to stay in the box before jogging down to first with some prodding by manager Bud Black from the dugout. Doyle picked up where he left off before the All-Star break to help out Quantrill, who rebounded from his shortest outing of the year in a two-inning dud in Cincinnati.
“It’s hard to be angry when I start and the team wins,” Quantrill said. “It won’t go down as my favorite start this year, but I battled through those last three innings, and I thought I gave us a chance. We were able to get it done late.”
Doyle blasted Rodriguez’s elevated fastball 434 feet into the left-field seats, his fifth homer over his last seven games. The no-doubter from Doyle, who has nine homers in July while slashing .429/.509/1.082 and continuing to emerge as a franchise pillar, got Colorado within shouting distance at 3-2.
“Doyle, doing what he’s doing right now, is one of the best players in baseball,” Jake Cave proclaimed.
In the seventh, right-hander Tyler Kinley ran into trouble when the Giants loaded the bases off him with two hits and a walk. But southpaw Jalen Beeks bailed Kinley out by striking out Michael Conforto on a full-count, top-of-the-zone cutter.
Colorado then tied the game in the bottom of the inning against right-hander Ryan Walker, taking advantage of Cave’s double down the right-field line. With two outs, Ezequiel Tovar rolled over on an infield single in the hole between third and shortstop, and Matt Champan proceeded to make an errant throw to first.
After an intentional walk to Ryan McMahon and a walk to Diaz, Doyle came up again, but grounded to third into a fielder’s choice in end the threat and keep the game tied 3-3.
But the Rockies finally took the lead in the eighth, after Brendan Rodgers’ leadoff infield single and Michael Toglia’s double off the submariner Rogers set up Cave’s 410-foot blast to right center on a hanging slider. Cave pimped the shot out of the box off, pointing and yelling to the dugout as he took his time trotting down the first base line.
After Rogers was lifted, Tovar added on to the big inning with a homer down the left field line off Luke Jackson. It was Tovar’s 15th dinger of the year and third homer in his last two games as he continues to climb out of a recent slump.
“It was a rough patch there for Tovar for a while,” Bud Black said. “He was hitting .290, .295, and slipped all the way down to near .260, so a pretty big drop. But he stayed the course and he didn’t waiver from his routine and his process, and he didn’t panic.”
With another big night of slugging, the Rockies have scored 24 of their last 25 runs via the homer, including 20 straight runs spanning from Toglia’s fifth-inning home run on July 11 at Cincinnati through Doyle’s home run on Friday in the sixth. That’s the longest streak of consecutive runs scored on homer in franchise history.
Colorado also tied a franchise record with 21 homers through its last seven games, a feat the club also achieved in 2018 and 1995. With the way the Rockies are hitting, both Quantrill and Cave believe Colorado (35-63) can play spoiler in the second half. Cave said the club has “a good chance to make some people mad.”
“We need to do everything we can to be a very competitive baseball team the rest of the way,” Quantrill added. “We want to be a team that other teams don’t want to play. We want to be a team that some of the teams in the playoff hunt don’t want to see on the schedule. If we can do that, we’re in a good spot.”
Saturday’s pitching matchup
Giants RHP Logan Webb (7-7, 3.47) at Rockies LHP Kyle Freeland (1-3, 6.00)
6:10 p.m. Saturday, Coors Field
TV: Rockies.TV (streaming); Comcast/Xfinity (channel 1262); DirecTV (683); Spectrum (130, 445, 305, 435 or 445, depending on region).
Radio: 850 AM/94.1 FM
Freeland’s been money since returning June 23 from a left elbow strain. In his four quality starts since, the Thomas Jefferson product has a 1.71 ERA and the Rockies are 3-1. He’s also pitched into the seventh inning in each of his last three outings. And he’s been excellent at home this year overall, with a 1.50 ERA in three starts and no homers allowed. Freeland has a solid track record against the Giants, going 7-6 with a 3.93 ERA in 22 career starts. Webb’s recent momentum, however, is the opposite of Freeland’s. He allowed seven runs in five innings against Toronto in his final start before the All-Star break, and in the All-Star Game he surrendered three runs in an ugly third inning that swung the momentum back toward the American League. In eight starts at Coors Field, he has a 4.24 ERA.
Pitching probables
Sunday: Giants RHP Jordan Hicks (4-6, 3.79) at Rockies RHP Ryan Feltner (1-9, 5.36), 1:10 p.m.
Monday: Red Sox TBA at Rockies LHP Austin Gomber (2-6, 4.61), 6:40 p.m.
Tuesday: Red Sox TBA at Rockies RHP German Marquez (0-0, 6.75), 6:40 p.m.
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Denver will reimburse developers working on reviving the Rossonian Hotel up to $15.5 million in sales and property taxes after the council approved the urban development proposal during its meeting Monday.
The decision comes after Denver Urban Renewal Authority found that the site was “blighted,” meaning there are unsafe living or working conditions and environmental contamination.
DURA recommended the city allow “tax increment financing,” or TIF, to remediate those problems and get the project off the ground.
“This tax increment financing is one of the final pieces that makes the Rossonian possible. Without it, this project does not happen,” said Paul Books, one of the owners of the building. “But with it, we are working through the last remaining steps to break ground this summer.”
The project, in the Five Points neighborhood, is part of the Welton Corridor Urban Redevelopment Plan. The six-parcel property is in the namesake intersection of Welton, 27th and Washington streets.
The building, once called the Baxter Hotel, was a popular event space for jazz performances between the 1930s and 1950s. Performers such as Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday took the stage there. It is on the National Register of Historic Buildings. The building has been vacant since the 1990s.
Palisade Partners, who purchased the property in 2017, plan to build 126 hotel rooms, a restaurant and an event space. They will also construct a new 8-story building between the Rossonian and the Hooper building as part of the redevelopment.
“We’ve concluded that the project does require assistance in order for it to be delivered as it has been contemplated,” said Bill Pruter, executive director of DURA.
Tax-increment financing, which is essentially a tax break or subsidy, allows developers to freeze how much is paid in property or sales taxes at a base level for up to 25 years, and then reinvest what would be paid above that back into certain elements of their projects.
For this project, the developers will be able to reinvest up to $15.5 million — which would otherwise go to the city’s bank account — into their project.
The city will reimburse the tax dollars for specific project costs mostly related to rehabilitation of the building. That includes up to $6.7 million on the plumbing and HVAC work in the new building and up to $2.3 million on the visible structure of the Rossonian Hotel.
The city will also reimburse up to $155,000 for “project art,” according to a presentation from DURA. DURA requires that 1% of the project’s costs be spent on art.
The tax freeze will last until the $15.5 million is reimbursed or in 25 years, whichever comes first.
“This project will bring new life to one of the most important corners in our neighborhood while preserving one of Denver’s most iconic cultural landmarks,” said Norman Harris, executive director of the Five Points Business Improvement District.
The total project is expected to cost $101 million and to be completed in 2028.
A roster move the Denver Broncos made back in March to clear cap space has come to fruition, as linebacker Dre Greenlaw’s post-June 1 designation release has taken effect.
As it turns out, the Broncos did gain more cap space with the move. While it appeared that the Greenlaw release had already been accounted for on sites such as Over The Cap, it actually had not.
Broncos’ Cap Space Grows
Instead, it turns out the $18.8 million in cap space the Broncos had prior to June 1 did not account for Greenlaw’s release. The Broncos now have more cap space than before, with $25.7 million available with his release in effect.
This means the Broncos have less need to cut players simply to create cap space. They can afford to keep the players they have on the roster until training camp starts, then make roster decisions based on what happens in the preseason.
The additional cap space will also help with accommodating any extensions the Broncos decide to give to players with expiring contracts. Players such as wide receiver/returner Marvin Mims Jr. and cornerbacks Ja’Quan McMillan and Riley Moss are among the younger players who might be in line for extensions, depending on how the Broncos value them and what they are seeking in a new deal.
Not to mention veterans, like backup quarterback Jarrett Stidham and left guard Ben Powers, both of whom are entering a contract year.
Potential for More Cap Carryover
The cap space also helps with the potential for more salary-cap carryover heading into 2027. Right now, the Broncos are projected to have just $2 million in cap space, but that does not account for carryover.
If the Broncos are wise with how they manage the cap in the coming months, they could carry over a significant amount of cap space into 2027. That alone will help alleviate the team’s cap situation next year.
Some might wonder whether the Broncos try to make another big move before training camp, but doing so would mean giving up cap space or draft capital that could be useful when it comes to improving the roster in 2027. We can’t rule out a trade, of course, but the added cap space doesn’t guarantee a trade is coming.
But the good news is the Broncos will be in a better cap position than before. We’ll see what moves come next and how that impacts cap space.
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I’m lying on a mattress in a basement off South Broadway. A mask blocks what little light there is, and a loud humming fills my ears. I know this sounds like the setup of a Liam Neeson movie, but I’m not a hostage—just a woman searching for relief in an unusual place.
It’s been about 20 minutes since I ingested two milligrams of psilocybin, aka magic mushrooms, in the form of a powder mixed into a strawberry smoothie, and if I’m going to start feeling things, now is the time, according to our licensed facilitator. Four other people are traveling on their own internal odysseys alongside me at Vivid Minds Cafe, one of the state’s first licensed healing centers following the passage of Proposition 122 in November 2022.
The building is part coffeeshop (which opened in August 2025), part natural medicine center (early March). Co-owners and spouses Manon Manoeuvre and Jeffrey Parton designed the space this way to make psilocybin-assisted therapy more approachable and affordable. Other Front Range healing centers focus on pricey macrodosing journeys (starting around $1,500), but Vivid Minds gives psychedelic-curious Denverites a chance to wade into the microdosing world in a group setting for just $150.
Until recently, I wouldn’t have counted myself among these curious minds. Thanks to my scary-but-effective D.A.R.E. officers, I’ve been too terrified to take more than two ibuprofen, let alone dabble in mushrooms. But burgeoning research into psilocybin has me rethinking my view on psychedelics. Although the evidence is mixed, some studies show that microdosers experience lower levels of anxiety and depression than their non-microdosing counterparts—a perk that’s especially attractive to me.
I’ve been on a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor for about seven years to manage my formerly crippling anxiety. As a child, I would obsessively watch the clock whenever my parents ran errands, convinced that a lengthy absence meant they’d died in a horrific car crash. My anxiety didn’t disappear with age; it only morphed. Now I lie awake wondering if the swollen lymph node in my neck is cancerous. Most of the time, my anxiety disorder is well-managed with medication, but recently it’s been resurging with a vengeance.
Which is why I’m lying here, a lavender-scented pillow beneath my head and a fleece blanket pulled up to my chin, wondering what will happen next. Will my heart start racing? Will scary hallucinations fill my vision? Will they have to wheel me out on a stretcher?
The post-consumption portion of the session began with a brief yoga flow before we settled onto our mattresses for a sound bath. But as the quartz bowls reverberate around me, I feel…nothing. My heart isn’t pounding, I’m not tasting colors, and I don’t anticipate the need for an ambulance. Microdoses are designed to be subperceptual. To see long-term relief, the science suggests microdosing every two to three days. “It’s not really a one-time thing,” Manoeuvre says. “For most people, it works more as a gentle, ongoing practice rather than a single-session fix.”
When the instructor calls us out of our final shavasana, I remove the mask. I had heard one woman crying softly during the sound bath; beside me, a man snores lightly. “Everyone’s experience can look a little different, so it’s not one-size-fits-all,” Manoeuvre says.
While I didn’t expect one 90-minute microdose session to eradicate my anxiety, my mind did feel different. Well, mostly my mindset. I no longer viewed magic mushrooms as a wild party drug or something to be afraid of. Instead, they cracked open a door I didn’t know was there. One I could choose to walk through, or not. Either way, I didn’t fear what was on the other side.
Read More: I Tried Magic Mushrooms for My Mental Health. Here’s What Happened.
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