Arizona OF/INF Brandon Drury went 4-for-5 with a homer in the opener and is 19-for-43 with two blasts in his last 11 games.3.
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“In (batting practice) he exhibits more power than anybody”.
“The first inning was like getting punched in the nose there, and we battled after that”, Diamondbacks manager Chip Hale said. He has it in him. I thought the offense coming in scoring four gave him a lot of life.
Lyles (4-5) got the first two outs of the sixth. Then he gave up consecutive singles to Drury, Paul Goldschmidt and Welington Castillo before Tomas connected. Colorado is a woeful 2-10 in their last 12 road games against a team with a losing record and a stat like that is exactly why they are on the outside looking in, but they do send Jeff Hoffman to the hill here who is a former top prospect with the Toronto Blue Jays.
With his team having already won more games (69) than they did last season (68), with 18 still left to play entering Tuesday’s late game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Weiss reflected on the role three veterans – catcher Nick Hundley, first baseman Mark Reynolds and infielder Daniel Descalso – have played in the team’s evolution. The first inning lasted 39 minutes. Randall Delgado (4-1) was credited with the win despite retiring only one of the four batters he faced in the sixth, and Daniel Hudson earned his third save. LeMahieu has now reached base in 29 consecutive games. That makes the Diamondbacks the first NL team since the 1932 Brooklyn Dodgers to have a 12-game streak of 10-plus hits against a single opponent in one season. Rockies RF Carlos Gonzalez went 4-for-5 with three doubles on Monday and is 8-for-17 with five RBIs over his last four contests.2. Owings doubled, stole third and scored on a groundout.Goldschmidt, who walked and stole second, scored on Jake Lamb’s double, and Mitch Haniger singled in the fourth run after a passed ball.Segura lead off the fourth inning with his 14th homer of the season.De La Rosa gave up eight hits and six runs (five earned) in 3 1/3 innings.Blackmon homered in the fifth inning to make it 6-4.Drury homer opened a five-run fifth as the Diamondbacks took an 11-4 lead. The Rockies trailed 5-0 going into the fourth inning.
Colorado LF Gerardo Parra (hamstring strain) did not start Monday but is expected to return during the three-game series in Arizona that began Monday, manager Walt Weiss said. “When they do that and Nolan and CarGo are swinging the bats, we will score some runs like we did tonight”. “They obviously have an vast amount of talent but a lot of poise, too”.
Segura hit solo shots off starter Jorge De La Rosa (8-8) in the first and fourth innings, setting a career high with his 13th and 14th homers. But the Rockies drew even at 6 in the fifth on Gonzalez’s two-out, two-run double followed by a soft single by Raimel Tapia that scored Gonzalez.
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RHP Shelby Miller was flawless through three innings before giving up nine hits and six runs in his final two innings. “To be mentioned in the same group with those guys is very humbling”.
