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Home runs from Dom Nunez and Trevor Story powered the Rockies to a 7-5 location triumph connected Wednesday against the Padres.
Colorado starter Chi Chi Gonzalez, in his archetypal quality disconnected the COVID-19 injured list, was pulled aft conscionable 3 innings erstwhile the right-hander allowed 3 earned runs connected 4 hits. But the Rockies overcame his unsmooth commencement with a flurry of discourtesy — 11 hits among six players — and a coagulated bullpen performance.
Colorado (55-66) is disconnected connected Thursday anterior to hosting a three-game bid against the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Rockies are 41-21 astatine Coors Field this play — the second-best location winning percent successful the majors.
On Wednesday, the Rockies flexed powerfulness with a brace of captious swings that changed the outcome.
Nunez broke a fourth-inning stalemate, 5-4, with a solo homer sent 425-feet disconnected Padres starter Jake Arrieta. Story kept their momentum rolling with his ain location tally successful the 5th — a two-run changeable scoring Charlie Blackmon — to enactment Colorado up 7-4.
Reliever Yency Almonte gave up conscionable 1 tally implicit the 5th and sixth innings. Tyler Kinley and Lucas Gilbreath kept the Padres scoreless successful the seventh and eighth. Daniel Bard closed the crippled for Colorado.
Both teams exchanged a burst of aboriginal discourtesy with the crippled tied 4-4 astatine Coors Field.
C.J. Cron got things rolling successful the archetypal with a two-run treble disconnected Arrieta. Cron aboriginal bushed the tag astatine location connected a Ryan McMahon RBI treble for a 3-0 Colorado lead. Cron scored different tally successful the 3rd with an RBI single.
But Padres’ outfielder Wil Myers smashed a brace of homers: a two-run blast successful the 2nd disconnected Gonzalez and a solo changeable facing reliever Ben Bowden successful the fourth. Manny Machado added an RBI single.
This communicative volition beryllium updated.
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