Hunter Goodman, Mickey Moniak homer in ninth, lifting Rockies to rare road win ...Middle East

Pardon the alliteration, but Rockies’ road rallies are really rare.

They bagged a big one Monday night, though, riding ninth-inning home runs by Hunter Goodman and Mickey Moniak to a 6-4 win over Washington at Nationals Park.

Goodman, Colorado’s leading All-Star candidate, led off the ninth with a blast off closer Kyle Finnegan. It was Goodman’s second homer of the game and team-high 13th of the season — 10 of them coming away from Coors Field. His homer tied the game.

Moniak’s two-run blast off Finnegan won it. Moniak, who had hit eight homers, drove in Sam Hilliard, who was pinch-running for Thairo Estrada after he reached on a one-out single.

The victory, locked down by right-hander Seth Halvorsen in another audition for the closer role, marked just the third time that the Rockies have won back-to-back games during this trying season. They beat the Braves, 10-1, in Atlanta on Sunday.

However, Colorado’s 57 losses in the first 72 games of the season are tied with the 1932 Boston Red Sox for the most in the modern era (since 1901). The Nationals lost their ninth straight, their longest losing skid since July 2022.

Rockies rookie left-handed starter Carson Palmquist cruised early, displaying the promise that makes him a likely cog in Colorado’s future rotation. But Palmquist hit a speed bump in the fourth inning and then suffered a blowout in the Nationals’ three-run, two-homer fifth inning.

Palmquist issued back-to-back walks in the fourth to C.J. Abrams and Andres Chaparro, and Amed Rosario’s sacrifice fly scored Abrams. Palmquist threw 39 pitches in the fourth, and that appeared to wear him out.

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In the fifth, Daylen Lile led off with a homer to the second deck in right field, Lile’s first big-league homer. A single by Alex Call, followed by a two-run homer by James Wood, put the Nationals up 4-3.

Palmquist, now 0-5 with a 7.76 ERA, pitched 4 2/3 innings, giving up four runs on four hits. He struck out two and walked three.

Goodman put the Rockies on his back in the first inning, slugging a two-run, 393-foot blast to left-center off right-hander Jake Irving.  Colorado stretched its lead to 3-1 in the fifth, combining Moniak’s leadoff triple off the center-field wall with an RBI single by first baseman Michael Toglia. Toglia was called up from Triple-A Albuquerque for Monday’s game after an 11-game tune-up stint in the minors.

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