DENVER — Brenton Doyle hit a walk-off, two-run homer in a five-run ninth inning, and the Colorado Rockies overcame a nine-run first-inning deficit to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 17-16 on Friday evening.
The Rockies are the sixth staff in main league historical past to win after surrendering 9 first-inning runs, in keeping with Elias Sports activities Bureau. Cleveland was the final to do it in 2006.
The Rockies are additionally the primary staff to win regardless of permitting 15 or extra runs for the reason that Boston Crimson Sox beat the Texas Rangers 19-17 in August 2008, in keeping with ESPN Analysis.
Colorado trailed 16-12 earlier than rallying off Dennis Santana (3-3). Hunter Goodman hit his twentieth homer with one out. Jordan Beck walked and scored on rookie Warming Bernabel‘s first triple. Thairo Estrada had an RBI single, and Doyle hit his eighth dwelling run with one out to win it.
Bernabel went 4-for-6 and hit his third homer for the Rockies — a three-run shot within the third to chop it to 9-4. Ezequiel Tovar went 4-for-6 and tied a serious league document with 4 doubles. Doyle additionally completed with 4 of Colorado’s 22 hits. Rookie Yanquiel Fernández hit his first homer — a two-run shot off Yohan Ramírez within the eighth to get the Rockies inside 4.
Oneil Cruz hit his 18th homer and second profession grand slam, and Andrew McCutchen added a three-run shot — his eleventh — off Antonio Senzatela because the Pirates grew to become simply the second staff in 132 years to attain nine-plus runs within the first inning on 10-plus hits that included a slam and a three-run homer. Cincinnati did it in opposition to the Louisville Colonels on June 18, 1893.
McCutchen completed 3-for-5 with 5 RBIs. Reynolds had three of Pittsburgh’s 18 hits and singled from either side of the plate within the first — the primary Pirate to take action since Neil Walker in 2015, additionally in Denver. Nick Gonzales completed 4-for-6, and Isiah Kiner-Falefa had three hits and three RBIs.
Andrew Heaney lasted simply 3⅓ innings for Pittsburgh, permitting 4 runs — three earned — on seven hits.
Rookie Dugan Darnell (1-0) pitched two scoreless innings for his first win.
The Related Press contributed to this report.