C.J. Cron’s homer leads Rockies over Padres in Colorado’s 11th walk-off win of season

These are the games that effort managers’ souls. And marque them leap for joy.

C.J. Cron deed a one-out walk-off homer disconnected Daniel Hudson to assistance the Rockies to a wild, 6-5 triumph implicit San Diego Monday nighttime astatine Coors Field.

It was Cron’s 20th homer of the play and Colorado’s 11th walk-off triumph — the astir successful the majors. It besides acceptable a franchise record, topping the 2010 squad’s grounds of 10 walk-off wins.

In the apical of the ninth, however, the Padres appeared to person wrecked Colorado’s evening. The Rockies led 5-2 and had 2 outs. But Trent Grisham sliced an opposite-field three-run homer disconnected person Daniel Bard, tying the crippled 5-5.

It was different melodramatic infinitesimal successful a crippled afloat of them.

In the sixth inning, San Diego’s Adam Frazier scorched a shot into nary man’s onshore successful left-center. It surely looked similar an extra-base deed for Frazier. That is until Rockies near fielder Connor Joe ran the shot down and made a brilliant, leaping grab. On the mound, right-hander Antonio Senzatela applauded the circus catch.

That was due due to the fact that Senzatela pitched an fantabulous game. The right-hander coaxed the Padres into 14 groundball outs implicit his 7 innings. He gave up 2 runs connected six hits. He got the Padres to crushed into 3 inning-ending treble plays — successful the second, 4th and fifth.

San Diego scored a tally disconnected Senzatela successful the 2nd erstwhile Jake Cronenworth led disconnected with a treble and yet scored connected Senzatela’s chaotic pitch. Their 2nd tally came successful the sixth connected a Fernando Tatis Jr. treble combined with an RBI azygous by Manny Machado.

Joe celebrated his 29th day by starring disconnected the archetypal with a 416-foot location tally to center, his seventh homer of the season, successful lone 47 games. He finished the crippled hitting 2-for-4, raising his mean to .291.

The Rockies’ four-run 3rd inning was huge. It began with back-to-back singles by Joe and Brendan Rodgers, followed up by a two-run treble by Trevor Story, who had 2 doubles Sunday astatine San Francisco.

The Rockies improved to 39-21 astatine home, the second-best location winning percent (.650) successful the majors down lone San Francisco (.690). Since May 21, the Rockies ain a singular 26-9 location record, the champion successful the majors during that stretch.