Tyler Freeman hit a two-run homer to cap a six-run eighth inning, and the Colorado Rockies rallied to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 10-7 in Denver on Saturday night.
Warming Bernabel also homered, Brenton Doyle, Jordan Beck and Yanquiel Fernandez had two hits apiece and rookie Ryan Rolison (1-0) picked up his first major league win for Colorado.
Adrian Del Castillo homered, doubled and drove in three runs, and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and Ketel Marte also had two hits for Arizona.
The Rockies trailed 7-2 but scored twice in the bottom of the seventh against starter Ryne Nelson, who gave up four runs on eight hits and struck out four without a walk over 6 1/3 innings.
Colorado then surged ahead in the eighth against reliever Andrew Hoffman (1-1). With one out, Beck doubled and Bernabel and Kyle Karros walked to load the bases.
Doyle doubled off the wall in right field to drive in two and chase Hoffman. Kyle Farmer followed with a pinch-hit single to left off of Andrew Saalfrank and, after Ryan Ritter grounded out, Freeman homered to left.
It was his second homer of the season.
Victor Vodnik pitched a clean ninth for his sixth save.
Gurriel’s RBI single in the first gave the D-backs a 1-0 lead, Bernabel’s fourth home run of the season leading off the second inning tied it, but Arizona answered in the third.
Geraldo Perdomo scored on a throwing error and Marte came home on a fielder’s choice to make it 3-1.
Consecutive two-out doubles by Hunter Goodman and Beck in the bottom of the third pulled the Rockies within a run at 3-2, but the D-backs stretched the lead in the fifth.
Perdomo led off with a single, stole second and scored on Gurriel’s two-out bloop single to center. Del Castillo doubled to left to bring home Gurriel and end the night for Colorado starter Chase Dollander.
Dollander allowed five runs (four earned) on six hits and two walks with six strikeouts in 4 2/3 innings.
Del Castillo’s two-run homer in the seventh, his second of the season, made it 7-2.
–Field Level Media
