The rally was furious, but it was too little and too late.
So, once again, the Rockies came up short, losing 13-9 to the Padres on Friday in front of 30,490 fans at Coors Field on a perfect spring night.
Colorado lost its seventh consecutive game and fell to 6-32, matching the 1988 Baltimore Orioles for the worst 38-game start in Major League Baseball’s Modern ERA (since 1901).
The Rockies pounded out a season-high 16 hits and made the Padres, owners of one of the majors’ best bullpens, squirm. In the middle of the eighth, the Rockies trailed 13-2 before igniting a patented Coors Field rally.
Colorado scored five in the eighth, keyed by a two-run double by Kyle Farmer and a two-run single by Brenton Doyle.
In a two-run ninth, Colorado got an RBI triple from catcher Hunter Goodman and a sacrifice fly by Mickey Moniak, and San Diego was forced to bring in closer Robert Suarez. He induced Sean Bouchard to ground into a double play to end the craziness.
One play symbolized the Rockies’ season of discontent.
In the sixth inning, with Manny Machado perched on third base, San Diego’s Xander Bogaerts hit a flyball to Doyle in center. Doyle loaded up and rocketed the ball to the plate. The throw was a little wide, but Goodman caught the ball and attempted a sweeping tag of Machado at the plate. It was a terrific, bang-bang play — except the Goodman dropped the ball when his glove hit the sliding Machado.
Machado scored, Goodman shook his head, and the Padres’ lead increased to 12-1.
And so it goes in LoDo.
But there were rays of light for Colorado.
In the fourth, Michael Toglia hit a one-out solo homer off Padres starter Randy Vasquez. Toglia’s fifth homer snapped the Rockies’ 32-inning scoreless streak against San Diego, the longest such streak in franchise history. Colorado’s drought extended back to its final two innings vs. the Padres last season and included a three-game set in San Diego earlier this season when Colorado failed to score a run.
McMahon led off the sixth with a solo homer to right off Vasquez, McMahon’s fifth home run. He finished the night 3 for 5. After a terrible slump, the third baseman is starting to heat up. Over his last eight games, McMahon is hitting .407 (11 for 27) with three homers, two doubles and a triple.
In the eighth, Jordan Beck hit another solo homer, a 428-foot blast to right-center off Sean Reynolds. Beck’s six homers lead the team.
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The Padres rapped out nine hits and scored eight runs (four earned) off Senzatela in 4 2/3 innings. Senzatela’s ERA climbed to 5.77, and opponents are hitting .382 against him.
San Diego opened the game with three straight singles to take a 1-0 lead. It could have been worse for Senzatela, but fortunately for him, Bogaerts screeched a line drive to Toglia at first base, who turned it into a double play.
San Diego broke out with a four-run third, taking advantage of Farmer’s error at short to open the inning. The Padres’ five-run fifth inning was highlighted by catcher Martin Maldonado’s two-run homer to left off reliever Jimmy Herget.
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