Mickey Moniak doubled, tripled and homered for the Colorado Rockies in a 6-3 win over the Miami Marlins in the third game of the four-game series on Wednesday evening in Denver.
Hunter Goodman and Kyle Karros also homered for Colorado, which had lost three in a row.
Rockies left-hander Kyle Freeland (2-7) earned his first win since April 7 by limiting Miami to two runs and six hits over five innings. He struck out seven and walked one.
Juan Mejia and Jimmy Herget held the lead for Brennan Bernardino, who pitched the ninth for his first save of the season and second of his career.
Joe Mack hit an inside-the-park home run and Liam Hicks had two hits and scored a run for Miami, which had won two in a row and six of seven.
The Marlins also went 20-6 in June, the second time in franchise history that they won at least 20 games in a month.
Max Meyer’s bid to win his first 10 decisions for Miami this season was derailed by four unearned runs in the fourth. Meyer (9-1) allowed five runs (one earned) and six hits over six innings. He struck out five and didn’t walk a batter.
Moniak was the second batter in the bottom of the first and hit the second pitch he saw over the fence in center for a 1-0 lead.
Hicks singled with one out in the fourth and Heriberto Hernandez doubled down the left-field line to put runners on second and third. Javier Sanoja then lined a 3-2 pitch into the gap in right-center field for a two-run triple that gave the Marlins a 2-1 lead.
Freeland bounced back to strike out Kyle Stowers and got Leo Jimenez to line out to center to strand Sanoja at third.
Freeland also pitched out of trouble in the fifth after surrendering back-to-back one-out singles.
Colorado put its first two runners on base in its half of the fifth, the second on an error by Sanoja at second, before Moniak came up with two outs and tripled into the right-center field gap to move Colorado back ahead 3-2.
Goodman then hit a towering fly ball over the fence in left for a two-run homer that made it 5-2.
Mack pinch hit for Brian Navarreto to start the seventh and hit the ball off the wall in center. It took an odd bounce, allowing him to circle the bases for an inside-the-park home run that cut the lead to 5-3.
Karros got the run back when he homered to center to lead off the seventh to make it 6-3.
–Field Level Media
