MIAMI -- The Rockies’ Hunter Goodman entered Monday with the most hits among any MLB player who claimed catcher as his primary position -- a stat that folks would be forgiven for not noticing, given the team’s struggles.
Goodman, though, made his strong season heard on Monday night.
Goodman cracked two home runs as the Rockies ended their third eight-game losing streak of the season with a 6-4 victory over the Marlins at loanDepot park. With three hits, Goodman increased his total to 59.
The 10-50 record remains the worst in the Modern Era (since 1900) and tied with the 1889 Louisville Cardinals for the third-worst ever. But those numbers qualified as “happy totals,” as the old-time announcers used to say, on a night when the Rockies reached double figures in hits for the first time since May 21 and the fourth time all season.
For Goodman, it was his third career multihomer game, his first since knocking two homers last Sept. 13 in a 9-5 home victory over the Cubs, and his first multihomer game on the road. The homers, both off Marlins starter Max Meyer, were a solo shot in the third and a two-run jack in the fifth.