Rockies play like Rockies’ road team in loss to D-Backs at Coors Field

The Rockies began their roadworthy travel a time up of schedule.

In a 3-hour, 50-minute crippled marred by 13 walks, the Rockies mislaid 8-4 to Arizona Sunday day astatine Coors Field arsenic their five-game winning streak screeched to a halt.

Colorado has been bully astatine location (43-22) and truthful atrocious connected the roadworthy (14-46). On Sunday, however, the roadworthy Rockies inadvertently checked successful astatine 20th and Blake. They statesman a 10-day, nine-game roadworthy travel — for existent — connected Monday astatine Chicago against the Cubs.

A quartet of Diamondback pitchers, led by starter Taylor Widener, constricted the Rockies to conscionable 5 hits. Widener allowed 1 tally connected 1 deed and struck retired 5 implicit 5 innings. He besides walked five, but the Rockies couldn’t instrumentality advantage.

Rockies pitchers, meanwhile, imploded. They walked seven, including 5 successful the Diamondbacks’ two-run sixth inning.

Rockies right-hander Jon Gray needed 108 pitches to steer his mode done 5 1/3 innings. Daulton Varsho’s three-run homer successful the 2nd inning was the large blow.

Gray, who struck retired eight, settled successful aft that.

Until the disfigured sixth.

Gray walked Josh VanMeter and Drew Ellis to unfastened the inning, prompting manager Bud Black to springiness Gray the hook. Lefty Lucas Gilbreath came on, walking 2 and forcing successful a run. Right-hander Robert Stephenson entered the crippled and helium besides walked successful a run. In the 33-minute half-inning, the travel of Colorado pitchers threw 45 pitches, conscionable 20 for strikes.

Gray was charged with 5 runs connected six hits and mislaid his 4th consecutive crippled successful August, during which he’s posted a 6.75 ERA.

Colorado started disconnected conscionable fine, scoring a tally successful the archetypal erstwhile Connor Joe was deed by a transportation and scored connected Ryan McMahon’s double.

The Rockies didn’t get different deed until their two-run eighth. Joe led disconnected with a walk, precocious to 3rd connected Brendan Rodgers’ hot-shot treble disconnected the 3rd baseman Drew Ellis and scored connected McMahon’s single. Rodgers trotted location connected C.J. Cron’s sacrifice fly.