Diamondbacks: Offense Shines in Series Win over Rockies

After a three game sweep in Atlanta, the Arizona Diamondbacks headed to the Mile High city for three games against the Colorado Rockies. The Diamondbacks showed off their offense in the 2-1 series win over the Rockies.

With Archie Bradley on the hill, the Diamondbacks took advantage of a big 5^th inning to take game one 10-5. A sac-fly scoring Jean Segura put Arizona up early in the first, but Colorado rallied in the bottom half with a Trevor Story double scoring Charlie Blackmon. In the bottom of the 4^th the Rockies got to Bradley, scoring three including another story double that plated two runs. With the Diamondbacks down three in the 5^th, and two outs in the inning, Segura (5) homered to cut the deficit to two. Three batters later, Jake Lamb (4) blasted a home run to right, giving the Diamondbacks the 5-4 lead. That was not the end of the scoring for the D-Backs, Chris Hermann tripled, scoring one. The 6-4 Diamondbacks lead held until the top of the 7^th, when back-to-back singles scored two runs and adding to the Arizona lead; 8-4. The D-Backs extended their lead in the 9^th with a Lamb triple that scored one and a sac-fly by Welington Castillo that scored another run. The Rockies had a late rally scoring one run in the bottom of the 9^th off a Gerardo Parra single. Bradley (1-0) got the win for the Diamondbacks, going six innings with four strikeouts and allowing four runs.

After a big offensive showing in game one, the Diamondbacks rode the wave of another big inning and an impressive performance from Rubby De La Rosa to win 5-1. Arizona scored four of their five runs in the 6^th inning; a double by Chris Owings, a single by Nick Ahmed, a sac-fly by De La Rosa, and a single by Jean Segura all scored runs for the Diamondbacks. The most impressive moment of the game was a Paul Goldschmidt (7) home run that literally went a mile high, deep into left field bleachers in the 7th. The only Rockie run came on a wild pitch in the 8^th. De La Rosa (4-4) received the win, going seven and a third allowing just one run on four hits and striking out six.

Looking for the three game sweep, the Diamondbacks got down early, 5-0 after four innings, then 7-1 after six, but rallied to tie the game in the top of the 8th. Their rally came up one run short, losing 8-7. Blackmon hit his second home run of the season to open the scoring for the Rockies, and then added to the Rockie lead with a two RBI single in the 4^th. Being down 5-0 in the 6^th, Goldschmidt got the D-Backs rally started with a double that scored Ahmed. Colorado came back with two runs of their own in the bottom of the 6^th, off a Ryan Raburn double that scored two. There was no give up in the Diamondbacks, Chris Herrmann scored two with a double and then Ahmed singled in another run, cutting the Colorado lead to 7-4 after seven innings. In the top of the eighth Yasmany Tomas doubled in a run, flowed by a Hermann triple to score Tomas, then an Owings single that plated Hermann that tied the game at seven. Tyler Clippard was on the mound in the 8^th for Arizona, trying to preserve the tie, when Nolan Arenado (13) homered to put the Rockies up 8-7. The top of the 9^th went down 1-2-3; Gonzalez Germen (1-0) got the win for his work in the 8^th inning for the Rockies. D-Backs’ starter Robbie Ray went four and two thirds innings allowing nine hits and five runs, only three earned.

The Diamondbacks now sit at 17 and 19 heading into a four game home series against another division foe, the San Francisco Giants.