The Colorado Rockies lost closer Victor Vodnik … then lost the second game of their three-game series to the Washington Nationals.
Vodnik, a flame-throwing right-hander who had accumulated five saves this month, was placed on the 15-day injured list with inflammation in his right biceps muscle in the hours before the Rockies’ 6-1 defeat to Washington at Nationals Park on Wednesday.
On the field, the Nationals rocked Colorado starter Tanner Gordon, tagging him for 5 earned runs in 4 innings of work. Most of the carnage came in the bottom of the third, when the Nationals opened with three singles in the first four at-bats before Gordon served up a center-cut, 91-MPH fastball that Luis García Jr. blasted over the right-center field fence for a 3-run homer…