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DENVER — The Rockies are young and unknown and not good on the whole. But they have some players who can hit a bit, and especially at their mile-high ballpark.
In Tuesday’s game at Coors Field between one team on an eight-game winning streak and one on an eight-game losing streak, it was a young player from somewhere familiar who effectively on his own topped the Padres on Tuesday.
San Diego State product Cole Carrigg drove in five runs with two homers to lead the Rockies to a 9-3 victory that stopped the Padres a game short of what would have been their longest winning streak in five years. “It felt good yesterday,” Fernando Tatis Jr.
said of the Padres having won for more than a week straight. “Not today, though.
That’s just an honest answer. But, you know, you just clean it up, and we start building again from tomorrow.” The Padres’ second loss in 11 games against the Rockies this season meant they did not move into a tie for the fifth wild-card spot with the Phillies, who lost earlier Tuesday.
The Padres stayed 2 1/2 games ahead of the Diamondbacks after former San Diego prospect Esteury Ruiz hit a three-run double in a 4-2 Marlins extra-innings win in Phoenix. The Rockies are five defeats away from their fourth consecutive 100-loss season.
Carrigg’s first homer tied the game 2-2 in the third inning. His second extended the Rockies’ lead to 7-3 in the sixth inning.
Besides Carrigg sending two balls more than 400 feet into the Colorado night, the Padres lost Tuesday because they faded after a fast start, and their three pitchers were nowhere near as good as the Rockies’ two. “We started off good,” Padres manager Craig Stammen said.
“A few solo home runs. We needed to hit those with a few men on base, but it wasn’t our night.
As the game went on tonight, their offense kept going and got to our bullpen.” The Padres led off the first two innings with home runs — Tatis on the second pitch of the game and Luis Campusano on the first pitch of the second inning.
They kept speeding through innings, but they didn’t score again until Austin Hays homered on the first pitch of the fifth inning. The Padres had four other hits in the first two innings.
But all four of those runners were left on base, two of them in scoring position, and Rockies starter Kyle Freeland had thrown just 28 pitches to that point. He threw nine more in the third inning and 12 in the fourth.
I t was the left-hander’s second start after missing nearly a month with a pinched nerve in his neck, and he was on a 60-pitch limit.
He did not get past 50, because after Hays sent his second home run with the Padres over the left-field wall, Rockies manager Warren Schaeffer made the switch to right-hander Ryan Feltner.
The score was remarkable not only for the fact that the Padres had not turned their hits into more runs but for the way Walker Buehler had allowed two runs.
It could have been more if not for a couple of plays made by two of his outfielders and could have been zero if not for a play one of his infielders did not make. Buehler was helped in the first inning when Campusano threw out Carrigg trying to steal second base for the third out.
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