DENVER (AP) \u2014 Gabriel Moreno and Nolan Arenado homered in a six-run first inning, and the Arizona Diamondbacks had a season-high 18 hits as they kept up their slim postseason chances with a 12-8 win over the Colorado Rockies on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Arizona (85-74) began the day three games back for the final NL wild card with four games to play and went on to extend its winning streak to five heading into a weekend series at San Diego.<\/p>\n
Moreno hit his 16th homer, a three-run drive, and Arenado hit his 29th, a two-run shot. Arenado, who had three hits, has eight homers in September and reached safely in 18 straight games.<\/p>\n
Arizona had its most hits since 21 on June 20 last year, also at Coors Field.<\/p>\n
Colorado has lost 16 of 19, getting swept for the 13th time this year, and dropped to a major league-worst 57-102, the third-most losses in club history. The Rockies are the first team with four straight 100-loss seasons since the 1962-65 New York Mets.<\/p>\n
The Rockies have allowed a major league-high 137 runs in the first inning. Colorado had 17 hits, its most in a Coors Field loss since June 16, 2019, against San Diego.<\/p>\n
A crowd of 22,511 attended the Coors Field season finale. The Rockies drew just under 2.25 million at home, down from 2.4 million last year and their lowest total in a non-COVID-impacted season since 2006.<\/p>\n
Eduardo Rodriguez (16-7) allowed two runs and nine hits in six innings, finishing with a 2.89 ERA<\/p>\n
Kyle Karros homered in the sixth and Cole Carrigg, who had four hits, hit a three-run homer off Dennis Santana in a four-run seventh.<\/p>\n
Tanner Gordon (1-6) gave up double-digit hits for the third straight start, allowing 10 runs and 12 hits in 4 1\/3 innings as his ERA rose to 6.68.<\/p>\n
Arizona’s James McCann homered off Jimmy Herget.<\/p>\n
Zac Veen hit a solo shot in the eighth for the Rockies and Karros had an inning-ending flyout to the wall with two on.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Diamondbacks: Brandon Pfaadt (7-3, 3.72) starts Friday.<\/p>\n
Rockies: RHP Tomoyuki Sugano (12-11, 5.36) opens a three-game series at the Chicago White Sox and RHP Sean Burke (10-7, 3.40).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER (AP) \u2014 Gabriel Moreno and Nolan Arenado homered in a six-run first inning, and the Arizona Diamondbacks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[4704,635,4705,4706,146,22,4314,4707,5,4708,1004,1487,3995,38,4703,4],"class_list":["post-813729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-aaron-munoz","tag-alan-trejo","tag-andy-gonzalez","tag-anthony-molina","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizonadiamondbacks","tag-austin-gomber","tag-baseball","tag-brendan-rodgers","tag-brenton-doyle","tag-bud-black","tag-cal-quantrill","tag-diamondbacks","tag-elias-diaz","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117330440574159271","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813729","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=813729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}