Ryan McMahon hit a tiebreaking double in a five-run eighth inning, and the Colorado Rockies used a two-out rally to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 10-8 on Thursday in Denver.
Charlie Blackmon homered and drove in three runs for Colorado, which began the comeback after Cardinals reliever Ryan Fernandez (1-6) retired the first two batters of the eighth.
With Colorado trailing 8-5, Jake Cave tripled and scored on Aaron Schunk’s second single of the day. Blackmon walked, and Ezequiel Tovar tied the game with a double to center.
Kyle Leahy took over on the mound, and McMahon hit a first-pitch double to right, scoring Tovar. Michael Toglia capped the rally with an RBI double off the wall in center.
Toglia finished with three hits and McMahon, Tovar, Cave and Schunk contributed two hits apiece. Angel Chivilli (2-3) got the win despite allowing two runs in his lone inning of relief. Seth Halvorsen picked up his second save for the Rockies (61-98).
The comeback spared Colorado starter Kyle Freeland the loss after he allowed six runs — four earned — on eight hits in 4 1/3 innings. He walked one and struck out four.
St. Louis starter Kyle Gibson gave up five runs (four earned) on five hits in four innings. He fanned five and walked three.
Lars Nootbaar and Paul Goldschmidt hit back-to-back home runs and Ivan Herrera and Pedro Pages also went deep for the Cardinals (81-78). Nootbaar, Jordan Walker and Victor Scott II finished with two hits apiece for St. Louis.
Nootbaar and Goldschmidt homered back to back in the first to give the Cardinals a 2-0 lead. It was Nootbaar’s 11th of the season and the 22nd for Goldschmidt.
Colorado answered in the bottom of the inning on Toglia’s RBI single and Nolan Jones’ run-scoring double.
St. Louis struck again in the second. Scott singled and scored when Jones misplayed Masyn Winn’s drive to left. Nootbaar drove in Winn with a double, and Jones’ second error of the inning, on Goldschmidt’s liner to left, allowed Nootbaar to score and make it 5-2.
Blackmon hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the inning, his 12th, and he tied it in the fourth with a sacrifice fly.
Herrera’s solo homer, his fifth of the season, put the Cardinals back in front 6-5 in the fifth, and Pages’ two-run shot in the eighth, his seventh of the year, made it 8-5.
–Field Level Media
