Michael

Lorenzen

Lorenzen has lost his last six decisions, and his ERA is up to 8.01. The Rockies probably don’t have anyone they want to replace him with at the moment, but this can’t go on for too much longer. He’s given up 99 hits in 60 2/3 innings. The next highest total in the majors in 86 hits, and that’s from Sandy Alcantara, who has worked 82 1/3 innings.

Lorenzen continues to struggle, but he was able to avoid his eighth loss because the Rockies provided some run support. The 34-year-old allowed five hits and a pair of walks while striking out two, and his ERA remains an ugly 7.22 on the campaign. Not ideal. He’ll try and get on the right track against the Angels next week, but to say fantasy managers can’t rely on Lorenzen is the understatement of understatements.

Lorenzen allowed 11 earned runs over 9 2/3 innings in his back-to-back starts against the D-backs. It’s not like he’s been much better against anyone else, he’s now 2-7 on the season with an ERA of 7.21. Who outside of anyone and everyone could have seen these struggles coming? Lorenzen well try and improve those numbers against the Giants next weekend.

Lorenzen allowed nine hits, walked three and struck out five. At 2-6 with a 7.03 ERA, he might be in danger of being bumped into middle relief at some point here, though the Chase Dollander injury takes some pressure off. Lorenzen is due to face the Diamondbacks again next weekend in Arizona.

Lorenzen gave up five hits, walked two and struck out five. He fell to 2-5 with the loss. Lorenzen allowed runs in the first and fifth innings in a solid outing, but he was easily bested by Paul Skenes, who shutout the Rockies for eight innings. Lorenzen is lined up to pitch again Sunday against the Diamondbacks at Coors Field. With a 6.55 ERA on the season, he’s off the fantasy radar.

Things did not get off to a good start for Lorenzen here when Juan Soto sent his third pitch of the game 435 feet deep into the Denver night. From there, it didn’t get much better. He gave up 11 hits, 10 hard-hit balls, and was chased before recording an out in the sixth inning after three consecutive hits by the Mets six, seven, and eight hitters. He should not be considered a viable option in any fantasy leagues.

Lorenzen struck out five and walked three, raising his ERA to 6.09 for the season. He’s continuing to throw seven pitches but remains limited in the shapes and velocities of those offerings. Most of his ERA damage actually came in one bad start against the Phillies, but he’s mostly serving an innings-eating role for a rebuilding Rockies team. Lorenzen’s next start lines up at Coors against the Mets.

Didn’t think Lorenzen had this in him. He evaded trouble all night with some well-timed double plays and line drives that found gloves, but got the job done. It felt like more of an old-school start where he appeared to be pitching to contact rather than hunting whiffs. It worked here and he’ll have another chance to start away from Coors Field next time out against the Reds in Cincinnati.

Lorenzen was shelled for seven runs against the Astros on Tuesday — although three of them were unearned — and it was beyond reasonable to be skeptical about his chances of limiting the Dodgers on Sunday. He did, for the most part. He gave up two runs in the second inning, and one more in the sixth, but all things considered, the disaster was averted. He’s now the owner of a 7.48 ERA and Lorenzen will get a chance to build on this decent-ish effort against the Mets on Friday.

Lorenzen tossed a clean first inning, then a solo homer by Christian Walker in the second. The wheels fell off in the third as Lorenzen would be chased after four hits, a walk, and two errors put six runs on the board for the Astros. He struck out three. The 34-year-old right-hander departed with a 9.18 ERA, 2.22 WHIP, and a 13/5 K/BB ratio across 16 2/3 innings. Don’t expect much better when he takes on the Dodgers in Colorado on Sunday.