The Colorado Rockies shocked the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday evening, overcoming a 9-0 deficit after the highest of the primary inning to finally rating a 17-16 walk-off victory (box score) courtesy of a two-run home-run by outfielder Brenton Doyle.
The Rockies are simply the third staff within the final 50 years to notch a victory after surrendering at the very least 9 first-inning runs. They’re the primary to do it for the reason that now-Cleveland Guardians pulled off the feat again in 2006. For the Pirates, it is the primary time they’ve misplaced whereas scoring 16 or extra runs since 1893. Moreover, Friday’s contest marked the primary MLB recreation the place each groups scored at the very least 16 runs since a 2008 matchup between the Texas Rangers and Boston Red Sox.
Here is a whole checklist of groups to lose in a recreation wherein they plated 16 or extra runs in the course of the Wild Card period:
The Pirates began off scorching, turning into the second staff in Main League Baseball historical past to get pleasure from a primary inning that included nine-plus runs and 10-plus hits, in addition to each a grand slam (Oneil Cruz) and a three-run dwelling run (Andrew McCutchen), according to OptaStats. But the Rockies had been capable of cut back that lead all through the evening, reducing it to 9-4 within the third, 15-10 within the fifth and 16-12 within the eighth inning.
The underside of the ninth inning noticed the Rockies gentle up Pirates reliever Dennis Santana. Hunter Goodman hit a one-out dwelling run to deliver Colorado inside three runs; Jordan Beck then walked earlier than scoring on a Warming Bernabel triple. Thairo Estrada then plated Bernabel with a single of his personal, reducing the deficit to 1. That is when Doyle performed the hero:
The Rockies’ nine-run comeback is tied for the most important in franchise historical past. They beforehand scaled the identical mountain vs. the Atlanta Braves in 2010 and the Miami Marlins in 2008.