The Rockies trailed 3-2 when they zeroed in on Andrew Cashner (4-8) in the sixth, driving him from the game after he gave up four straight hits and a walk to start the inning.
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Act one: The Rockies’ offense played dead. “And also just to get [Stanton] off his feet a little bit”, said manager Don Mattingly.
Gordon’s speed enabled the Marlins to score a run in the first.
“My fastball wasn’t there, my command wasn’t there, ” Estevez said. Nolan Arenado, who advanced to second on the error, scored on a David Dahl single, while a Mark Reynolds double would cap off the three run inning for Colorado. Prado singled with the bases loaded and Christian Yelich added a sacrifice fly. He has a.242 batting average with 23 home runs, 63 RBI and 50 runs scored overall.
“That will be something I look back on and really remember”, Stripling said. But the Rockies’ bats finally came to life in the eighth against Miami reliever Fernando Rodney.
17 – Carlos Gonzalez extended a Rockies season-high hit streak to 17 games tonight. He was happy for second baseman Dee Gordon, who’d made a costly error in the prior inning that almost cost the Marlins. Mike Dunn fell behind David Dahl and gave up a run-scoring single.
Ichiro Suzuki has reached 2,999 career hits. Suzuki stayed in the game to play right field.
The Colorado Rockies aim to get back above.500 and claim another series win when they wrap up a three-game set with the visiting Miami Marlins on Sunday. Hitting with RISP has been an issue for the Marlins all season long. He lured nine groundball outs from the Marlins. In fact, the 504-foot jack makes it the just outside of the 10 longest home runs ever hit in the history of Major League Baseball. “At the same time we’re getting good starting pitching”.
WASHINGTON – Eduardo Nunez got four hits, including two triples and a double off Nationals ace Stephen Strasburg, and the San Francisco Giants beat Washington 7-1 Saturday night in a matchup of NL division leaders.
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Just look how ridiculously far and how ridiculously hard he hits a baseball. But he was nails Friday night, looking like the pitcher who blanked Colorado for eight innings and struck out six in the Marlins’ 6-0 victory June 11 last season at Miami.
