Ezequiel Tovar singled with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 12th inning, Sam Hilliard hit a two-run homer in the 10th and the Colorado Rockies beat the Boston Red Sox 9-8 in Denver on Monday night.
Tovar finished with three singles, his sixth straight multi-hit game, to give Colorado its fourth win in five games.
Charlie Blackmon homered among his two hits, and Brenton Doyle, Jacob Stallings and Aaron Schunk also finished with two hits apiece for the Rockies. Justin Lawrence (3-3) tossed two innings of relief for the win.
Wilyer Abreu put Boston in front, 8-7, with an RBI single in the top of the 12th before the Rockies rallied.
Jake Cave’s run-scoring single off Bailey Horn (0-1) tied it at 8-8, and Cave advanced to second on the play thanks to an error. An intentional walk followed by a sacrifice bunt and another intentional walk loaded the bases, and Tovar lined a single to center off Chase Anderson to end the game.
Jamie Westbrook and Connor Wong homered, Tyler O’Neill had three hits and Romy Gonzalez had two hits for the Red Sox, who have lost four straight.
Boston took a 7-5 lead in the 10th on Dominic Smith’s RBI double and Rafael Devers’ sacrifice fly, but Hilliard drew Colorado even in the bottom of the frame with a two-run homer, his third long ball of the season.
Blackmon’s seventh homer of the year, a two-run shot off Red Sox starter Tanner Houck, started a four-run third inning for Colorado.
Houck settled down to pitch six innings, allowing four runs on 10 hits, and avoided the loss after Boston’s lineup rallied in the fifth inning against Rockies starter Austin Gomber.
Westbrook hit a three-run homer, his second blast of the season, and Rob Refsnyder’s RBI single tied the game at 4.
Gomber retired the first two batters in the sixth before walking Masataka Yoshida. He was then relieved by Peter Lambert, who gave up a two-out double by Gonzalez but escaped the inning without further damage.
Gomber allowed four runs on six hits in his 5 2/3 innings.
Colorado took a 5-4 lead in the seventh on Stallings’ two-out RBI double, but Wong led off the top of the eighth with his ninth homer of the season.
–Field Level Media
