Mickey Moniak capped a four-run seventh inning with a two-run single and the Colorado Rockies rallied to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-5 in Denver on Sunday.
Ezequiel Tovar, Ryan Ritter and Warming Bernabel had two hits apiece for Colorado. Anthony Molina (1-1) tossed a scoreless inning of relief and rookie Juan Mejia picked up his first career save after making a leaping catch of Ketel Marte’s popup to end the game.
The Rockies rallied from three runs down in the seventh inning against reliever Jake Woodford (0-3). Bernabel singled, then Woodford hit Braxton Fulford and Hunter Goodman to load the bases with one out. Ritter singled home the first two and after a groundout advanced Kyle Karros (pinch running for Goodman) and Ritter. Moniak gave Colorado a 5-4 lead with a two-run single.
Fulford added an RBI double in the eighth.
Corbin Carroll homered among his two hits, Lourdes Gurriel Jr. also went deep and Jake McCarthy and Alek Thomas had three hits each for Arizona, which didn’t reward journeyman Nabil Crismatt’s spot start.
The D-backs loaded the bases with one out in the ninth and got a run on James McCann’s sacrifice fly. With runners on second and third, Marte hit a popup in the infield that Mejia held onto despite colliding with first baseman Bernabel.
Crismatt didn’t allow a baserunner until Tovar’s two-out single in the fourth. Colorado got to him in the fifth inning on Orlando Arcia’s two-out RBI single to right. Crismatt allowed one run on three hits and one walk and struck out five in five innings.
Rockies starter Antonio Senzatela, who was activated from the 15-day injured list, left after five shutout innings but was denied the win when Carroll led off the sixth with a 474-foot homer off of Luis Peralta, his 27th of the season.
Gurriel followed with his 16th home run of the season and McCarthy singled to end Peralta’s day after three batters. Dugan Darnell gave up a single to Tyler Locklear, McCarthy stole third and scored when Arcia misplayed the throw from Fulford.
Locklear scored on a single by Thomas to cap the rally and give Arizona a 4-1 lead.
–Field Level Media
