Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Colorado Rockies – Game 2 Review
On Wednesday night, Seth Smith homered twice, Ubaldo Jimenez threw eight shutout innings and the Colorado Rockies beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-3, at Coors Field, Denver, Colorado.
Jimenez (9-1) extended his current scoreless streak to 16 1/3 innings and dropping his ERA to 0.88, thereby continuing his dominant start to the season. For the Rockies, Miguel Olivo had three hits and Carlos Gonzalez homered. This was Rockies season-high four straight win. In the second and third innings, Arizona had runners but Jimenez kept the Diamondbacks off the board. To give the Rockies a 1-0 lead, in the first, Smith homered with one out.
“At the beginning of the game they were hacking every first-pitch fastball and they were hitting it good, after the third inning I got better. I was using a couple of breaking balls because they were looking for the fastball”, said Jimenez.
For the Diamondbacks, Gerardo Parra had two hits and Mark Reynolds hit his 12th home run. The Diamondbacks have lost three in a row. With a double, Kelly Johnson led off the game. Stephen Drew was retired by center fielder Carlos Gonzalez had to make a running catch at the wall.
“I thought I had it. At least a double, but Gonzalez made the play; you never know what happens after that. He ran the perfect route”, said Drew said.
With a walk, Gonzalez led off the third and stole second. To make it 3-0, Troy Tulowitzki walked and Brad Hawpe followed with a triple to right-centerfield, after Lopez retired. In Rodrigo Lopez’s last inning, the Rockies added another run in the sixth when Tulowitzki led off with a double and scored on Olivo’s single to right. Lopez (2-3) struck out three, walked four and gave up four runs and five hits.
With back-to-back homers, reliever Juan Gutierrez was greeted by Gonzalez and Smith and led off the seventh and made it 6-0. This year the duo has hit consecutive homers for the second time. Ian Stewart’s RBI single with two outs scored Tulowitzki from second got the score to a match winning 7-0.
When Reynolds hit a three-run homer off Rafael Betancourt in the ninth, the Diamondbacks broke through.
