Colorado 7, San Diego 3
When: 8:40 PM ET, Friday, August 16, 2024
Where: Coors Field, Denver, Colorado
Temperature:
91°
Umpires:
Home -
CB Bucknor, 1B -
Jeremy Riggs, 2B -
Adam Beck, 3B -
Dan Iassogna
Attendance:
33054
By Field Level Media
Charlie Blackmon homered among his two hits, Brendan Rodgers also went deep and the Colorado Rockies cooled off the streaking San Diego Padres with a 7-3 win in Denver on Friday night.
Rookie Jordan Beck had three hits to back starter Cal Quantrill's solid start and end Colorado's three-game losing streak.
Ha-Seong Kim and Xander Bogaerts homered and Jackson Merrill, Luis Arraez and David Peralta contributed two hits each for San Diego. The Padres are 19-5 in the second half of the season and three of those losses are to the two teams with the worst records in the NL - the Marlins and Rockies.
San Diego loaded the bases with no outs in the first inning, but Quantrill worked out of the jam without giving up a run. Meanwhile, Colorado took advantage of its opportunity in the bottom of the inning.
Blackmon led off with a walk, Ezequiel Tovar singled and, after a forceout, Ryan McMahon drove in a run with a single.
Rodgers then hit a 77-mph knuckleball from Padres starter Matt Waldron into the seats in left to give the Rockies a 4-0 lead. It was his 10th homer of the season.
The Padres got a pair back in the second on Kim's two-run homer, his 11th of the season, but Blackmon answered with his eighth home run in the bottom of the inning, a two-run shot to right.
Bogaerts led off the fourth with his sixth homer of the season to cut San Diego's deficit to 6-3.
That was all Quantrill (8-8) allowed, as he gave up three runs on six hits and struck out five in five innings.
The Padres had a chance to get closer when Merrill tripled with one out in the sixth, but Kim grounded into a double play to end the inning.
Colorado added another run in the sixth when Michael Toglia doubled, moved to third on a groundout and scored on Beck's third hit of the game.
That was all for Waldron (7-10), who allowed seven runs on nine hits and struck out six in 5 2/3 innings.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
San Diego
|
10 |
2 |
19 |
.303 |
24 |
8 |
3 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
Colorado
|
10 |
2 |
17 |
.294 |
12 |
9 |
7 |
2 |
2 |
0 |