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German Marquez threw a no-hitter for 4 1/3 innings, pitched six scoreless innings, struck retired 7 and walked lone 1 Friday nighttime astatine Coors Field.
And yet the Rockies’ ace was upstaged. Big time.
His teammates channeled the Blake Street Bombers, blasting 5 location runs successful a 14-2 romp implicit Miami.
First baseman C.J. Cron, making a lawsuit that the Rockies should effort to re-sign him astatine season’s end, deed 2 homers disconnected Marlins right-hander Sandy Alcantara, bringing his play full to 16. His archetypal homer led disconnected the 2nd inning, an awesome 412-foot “oppo” to close field.
His 2nd homer arrived successful Colorado’s nine-run fourth. It was memorable. Fans roseate to their feet the infinitesimal Cron connected connected Alcantara’s hanging slider. Cron rocketed the shot a mile high, implicit the bleachers successful near tract and onto the concourse. According to Statcast’s projections, the homer traveled 465 feet. Many observers successful the property container opinioned that Cron was shortchanged.
Colorado’s different location runs came from Charlie Blackmon, a two-run, opposite-field changeable to near successful the fourth, and Elias Diaz, who followed up Cron’s agelong homer with a 439-foot blast of his ain to left. Diaz has a career-high 13 location runs, 11 of them coming since June 28, tied for fourth-most successful the majors.
Ryan McMahon joined the enactment with a two-run homer successful the eighth, his team-high 18th.
But wait, there’s more.
In the fifth, Miami’s Isan Diaz led disconnected and deed a hard changeable to the close of 2nd base, but shortstop Trevor Story, successful the shift, made a diving halt and flipped the shot to 2nd baseman Brendan Rodgers, who threw to archetypal to get Diaz. It went down successful the scorebook arsenic 6-4-3, but it wasn’t a treble play, conscionable a spectacular 1 that brought the assemblage to its feet.
As for Marquez, helium was ascendant again. The archetypal no-hitter of his vocation seemed similar a possibility, particularly aft the Story-Rodgers item play. But the adjacent batter, Bryan De La Cruz, ripped a treble disconnected Marquez to left.
Marquez is connected immoderate benignant of roll. Over his past 7 starts, he’s 5-1 with a 1.31 ERA, 46 strikeouts and conscionable 9 walks.
Riding beardown starting pitching and an discourtesy that is becoming a beast astatine Coors Field (nine homers successful the past 2 games), the Rockies improved their location grounds to 36-21, a .631 winning percent that has them connected gait to triumph 51 games astatine Coors Field. That would necktie them for the third-most location wins successful franchise history, trailing lone the 1996 nine (56) and the 2010 squad (52).
Owings is done. Utility subordinate Chris Owings’ atrocious luck continued successful 2021, and erstwhile again, his play has been canceled due to the fact that of injuries. Two near thumb injuries landed him connected the injured database and helium is officially retired for the remainder of the season. In 21 games, helium deed .326.
Owings, who turns 30 connected Thursday, was incapable to decorativeness past play due to the fact that of a hamstring injury.
Freeland’s OK. Left-hander Kyle Freeland, who suffered a bruised near ft during his past start, is connected way to commencement Sunday’s game. He threw a broadside league Friday and passed each of the tests.
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