Field Level Media
Aug 22, 2021
Daulton Varsho homered, tripled and doubled, Christian Walker also went deep, and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Colorado Rockies 8-4 in Denver on Sunday.
David Peralta had two hits and Taylor Widener (2-1) allowed one run on one hit and walked five to win for the first time since April 4. He also singled.
Ryan McMahon had two hits for the Rockies, who had their nine-game home winning streak snapped. Colorado had won five straight overall before Sunday.
The Rockies took the lead in their half of the first. Connor Joe was hit by a pitch to start the inning, and one out later McMahon doubled to right to make it 1-0.
The Diamondbacks answered in the second inning. With one out, Josh VanMeter singled, Drew Ellis doubled and Varsho homered into the Arizona bullpen, his eighth of the season, to make it 3-1.
Rockies starter Jon Gray (7-10) settled down after that, allowing just one hit in his last 3 2/3 innings. He gave up five runs on six hits and struck out eight in 5 1/3 innings. He walked three, including the last two batters he faced, before being replaced by Lucas Gilbreath with one out in the sixth.
Arizona took advantage of Gray's two walks and scored two runs without putting the ball in play. Gilbreath walked Varsho to load the bases, and after striking out Carson Kelly, he threw four straight balls to Josh Rojas to bring in VanMeter, who started the rally with a one-out walk.
Robert Stephenson came on and walked Ketel Marte to drive in another run. Walker blasted a solo homer to start the seventh. It was his sixth of the season.
Varsho led off the eighth with a double, and after an intentional walk to Marte with two outs, Pavin Smith lined a single to center to make it 7-1.
Colorado got two back in the bottom of the eighth on McMahon's RBI single and a sacrifice fly by C.J. Cron, but Varsho's triple in the ninth drove in Peralta to get one back.
Dom Nunez tripled and scored on Joe's double in the bottom of the ninth.
--Field Level Media