#27

Saturday 1st May — Colorado Rockies vs Arizona Diamondbacks @ Chase Field

Trevor Story was one of the Rockies players who had a big game on Saturday night (Photo courtesy of Southside Shutdown)

Rockies fans deserved this. After a dismal week, Saturday provided the exhale that all the Rockies’ faithful have been praying for. Colorado put together a season-high 18 hits and 14 runs, the most hits in a road game since 2017 and the most runs scored on the road since May 2016.

The Rockies got it started early in the 1st. McMahon gave Colorado an early lead on an RBI single and the flood gates opened for Colorado to chalk up runs left, right and centre. Arizona did manage to level the game, but the Rockies pulled away in the 4th, and then put the game beyond doubt in the 8th.

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Lets quickly run through that 8th inning:

• Raimel Tapia got his 4th hit of the day to give the Rockies a leadoff single
• Story followed with another single that advanced Tapia to 3rd
• McMahon got himself an RBI on a sac fly — his 4th RBI of the day
• CJ Cron got himself a single, advancing Story to 3rd
• Charlie Blackmon got himself an RBI single
• Garrett Hampson walked
• Yonathan Daza hit an RBI single
• Dom Nunez hits a grand slam to right field.

And just like that, the score was 14–5. Nunez got his 15th RBI of the season, and is currently tied for the NL lead in HRs by a rookie. Such was the misery of the inning that the DBacks ended the inning with a position player pitching — much to the delight of Cut4 baseball.

The Rockies have been miserable of late, and Saturday was only the 2nd time that Colorado have won on the road this season. After watching this offence lament for what seems like forever, it was fun to see what this group can do when they have an opportunity to whallop the ball all over the farm. With the final game of the series tomorrow, the Rockies actually have an opportunity to tie the series tomorrow with another win — an idea that seemed alien even yesterday!

Lets hope the boys can carry this momentum into tomorrow and salvage a respectable series draw.

Final Score — Colorado Rockies 14 — Arizona Diamondbacks — 5

Rockies’ MVP — Too many to pick, but Raimel Tapia, Trevor Story and Ryan McMahon played very well.

Rockies’ record — 10–17