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Rookie Blaine Crim's First MLB Hit Lifts Rockies Over Padres, 4-2

San Diego left Petco Park 2.5 games behind the Dodgers with a four-game cushion on the Mets for the NL's second wild card.

Overview

  • Blaine Crim launched a three-run homer in the fourth inning for his first big-league hit, giving Colorado a lead it never lost.
  • Tanner Gordon pitched into the seventh, struck out nine, and retired 16 straight after Manny Machado's first-inning homer.
  • Kyle Farmer followed Crim with a homer on the next pitch off JP Sears, who allowed four runs in 4 1/3 innings with eight strikeouts.
  • Juan Mejia, Jimmy Herget and Victor Vodnik closed it out, with Vodnik earning his eighth save after San Diego scored once in the ninth.
  • The Rockies snapped a six-game losing streak and ended a 39 2/3-inning scoreless drought at Petco Park.