The Colorado Rockies begin a seven-game road trip Thursday as they host the National League West-rival San Diego Padres for the opener of their four-game series.
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The San Diego Padres look to build on their impressive effort yesterday as they continue their show down at home with the Colorado Rockies on Friday. He’s 2-0 with a 1.84 ERA in two starts against the Padres this year. Colorado starter Jeff Hoffman had a very weird line, managing only 2.2 innings while allowing seven runs, all unearned. He gave up seven unearned runs, six hits and two walks. It marked the second straight outing in which the 26-year-old Californian yielded six runs and dropped him to 0-3 during his four-start winless streak.
The Padres scored two runs on three hits off rookie right-hander Matt Carasiti, who recorded only one out and walked Luis Sardinas with the bases full to force in a run. Colorado appeared on its way to a fourth loss in five contests Wednesday but rallied for three runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to pull out a 6-5 victory over San Francisco.Cristhian Adames delivered a pinch-hit, two-run double to end the contest while Nolan Arenado belted his NL-leading 37th home run to raise his major league-best RBI total to 118.
“I didn’t lose focus”, Hoffman said. “That stuff happens. You just have to move ahead and make the next pitch and get out of it”. But Jay’s grounder kicked off Adames’ glove for an error that allowed Sardinas to score the game’s first run. Alex Dickerson recorded two of the seven hits registered by the Padres, who have lost five of their last six at home.
Then Schimpf went deep over the fence in center field. “The error certainly hurt, because all the runs came after that with two outs, but you’ve got to put that inning down at some point”. The Rockies need to break out of this funk and get the pitcher to do so as Chatwood has been better than Perdomo and I think he does enough here to get the Rockies in the win column. The same can’t be said for the fifth; Marquez walked the first three batters to load the bases with no outs. Jankowski added a two-run single.
Clayton Richard pitched seven scoreless innings in stifling the Rockies.
Schimpf, a rookie second baseman, hit his 18th home run of the season, all coming since July 1.
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Richard (2-3) was sharp as he scattered six hits, walked two and had eight strikeouts.
