C.J. Cron hits 2 HRs, leads Rockies to 10-4 win over Padres
DENVER (AP) — C.J. Cron homered twice amongst his three hits and drove in 5 runs, Randal Grichuk additionally went deep and the Colorado Rockies snapped a seven-game residence shedding streak with a 10-4 win over the San Diego Padres on Friday evening.
Charlie Blackmon added three hits for the Rockies, together with a run-scoring triple and RBI single.
Trent Grisham homered for San Diego, which misplaced its eighth straight to the Rockies at Coors Subject. It’s San Diego’s longest highway shedding streak to the NL West-rival Rockies. The Padres had been coming off a four-game collection sweep of the Chicago Cubs and had received eight of their final 10.
Rookie MacKenzie Gore (4-3) had one other tough outing towards the Rockies. He went four-plus innings and was tagged for a career-high eight runs on 9 hits, together with each of Cron’s homers and Grichuk’s three-run drive within the backside of the fourth that gave the Rockies a 6-0 lead.
Gore additionally confronted the Rockies in his final begin within the second sport of a doubleheader final Saturday, and didn’t get out of the third inning, permitting six runs on a profession low 2 1/3 innings pitched.
Kyle Freeland (3-5) pitched seven innings, six scoreless. The Padres tagged him for 4 runs within the fifth inning when Grisham led off with a homer. Jurickson Profar added a sacrifice fly and Manny Machado and Luke Voit hit consecutive RBI doubles because the Padres closed to inside 6-4.
The Rockies added a pair of runs within the backside of the fifth. Blackmon singled forward of Cron’s second homer off Gore. It was Cron’s second multi-homer sport of the season and the fifteenth of his profession. Gore then walked Brendan Rodgers and was relieved by Mike Clevinger.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Padres: RHP Joe Musgrove has been positioned on the COVID-19 injured record, and RHP Reiss Knehr was recalled from Triple-A El Paso to fill his roster spot. … In separate strikes, RHP Clevinger was reinstated from the COVID-related record, OF Matt Beaty was transferred to the 60-day IL and RHP Kyle Tyler was optioned to El Paso.
Rockies: LHP Ty Blach, positioned on the 15-day injured record every week in the past with a left wrist pressure, is being despatched to Triple-A Albuquerque for a rehab task slated to start Wednesday. He stays on monitor for a June 26 reinstatement from the IL. … OF Kris Bryant, who has battled a decrease again damage for a lot of the season, is predicted to start a rehab task within the subsequent day or two with Albuquerque. He may rejoin the Rockies as quickly as subsequent week in the course of the staff’s interleague collection at Minnesota.
MAKING A MOVE
The Rockies recalled infielder Alan Trejo from Triple-A Albuquerque, a day after optioning outfielder Sam Hilliard to their prime farm membership.
UP NEXT
Colorado RHP German Marquez (3-5, 6.09 ERA) will probably be in search of a 3rd straight win when he begins Saturday evening towards San Diego RHP Nick Martinez (2-3, 3.74 ERA).
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