{"id":38430,"date":"2025-05-19T09:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T09:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/38430\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T09:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T09:41:14","slug":"merrill-kelly-dominates-with-11-ks-as-d-backs-shut-out-rockies-for-series-win-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/38430\/","title":{"rendered":"Merrill Kelly dominates with 11 K&#8217;s as D-backs shut out Rockies for series win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brief<\/p>\n<p>Merrill Kelly of the Arizona Diamondbacks struck out 11 on May 18 against the Colorado Rockies.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a season high for him, and on top of that, he allowed just one hit across seven innings.<\/p>\n<p>Merrill Kelly delivered a masterful performance Sunday, striking out a season-high 11 and yielding only one hit across seven innings as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/sports\/mlb\/diamondbacks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Arizona Diamondbacks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> shut out the Colorado Rockies 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Kelly Stays Consistent<\/p>\n<p>Ketel Marte provided the decisive run with a solo homer.<\/p>\n<p>The Diamondbacks clinched the three-game series two games to one, keeping the Rockies from earning their first series win this year. Colorado&#8217;s 8-38 mark is the worst start through 46 games for a major league team since 1901.<\/p>\n<p>The lone hit off Kelly over seven innings came in the sixth, a hard grounder by Jordan Beck that skipped past Eugenio Su\u00e1rez at third base for a double. The 36-year-old pitcher has been a model of consistency lately, giving up one run or none in five of his past seven outings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Merrill Kelly of the Arizona Diamondbacks struck out 11 on May 18 against the Colorado Rockies.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,52,38,92,1381,729,660,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-38430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-colorado-rockies","13":"tag-diamondbacks","14":"tag-eugenio-suarez","15":"tag-jordan-beck","16":"tag-ketel-marte","17":"tag-merrill-kelly","18":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}