The Rockies allowed Chatwood to hit for himself with two out after Tony Wolters flew out to center.With Padres center fielder Travis Jankowski playing shallow, Chatwood, who entered the game with a.136 batting average, hit a liner to right center that sailed over the head of the diving Jankowski.Perdomo, who had retired 12 of 13 Rockies before issuing his only walk to Reynolds to trigger the seventh-inning rally, allowed four runs on eight hits and a walk with four strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings.NOTES: Padres C Derek Norris is available Friday night after leaving Thursday’s game in the ninth inning after taking a foul tip off his right clavicle.
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“You bet on the person and what he has done in the past”, Padres manager Andy Green said.
The stats certainly weren’t pretty. He’s coming off his first shutout. His strikeout rate had ballooned from 20.6 percent to 30.1 percent. It could have been worse, except that Alex Dickerson hit a blistering line drive right at first baseman Mark Reynolds, who turned it into a double play.
“He’s the guy who did the most damage against me in the game, so I don’t feel good about that”, Perdomo said. I’ve had some ups and downs – definitely had both of those. I think it was just my slider. “He had good breaking balls – curveball and slider – and we couldn’t figure him out”.
The San Diego Padres ended the momentum from yesterday’s Rockies victory with a pitching gem from a familiar face.
Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Jon Gray works against a San Diego Padres batter during the second inning of a baseball game Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016, in San Diego. Saturday night, that slow start buried him.
“I think I threw way more fastballs tonight than I normally do, and I throw a lot of fastballs”, Chatwood said. “He felt really strong today”.
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Among his victims this time around, LeMehieu and rookie David Dahl punched out twice. RHP Paul Clemens is scheduled to start Monday in San Francisco, although he is now suffering from the flu. 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. “I told them I didn’t need to, that I could still swing it”. The 32-year-old from IN lost his only turn at home on August 20 despite giving up only two unearned runs and two hits IN six frames versus Arizona.
