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Story by Liz Alper
Photo via @Padres on Twitter
May 4, 2017 (San Diego) - Last night was bad for the Padres. But they still had a chance to win the series from Colorado in a day game at Petco. Kyle Freeland started for the Rockies against Luis Perdomo.
It was a nice day ruined for San Diegans when Alexi Amarista singled in the second, scoring Ian Desmond (the guy who had caused the Padres so much pain last night) and the Rockies took a 1-0 lead.
It was a low-scoring game; Ryan Hanigan hit his first home run as a Rockie in the seventh to give the Rockies a 2-0 lead.
Hunter Renfroe narrowed the gap to one with an RBI double that Yangervis Solarte scored all the way from first on and the score was 2-1.
The Padres finally tied it up in the eighth when the Rockies couldn’t make a double play on a grounder by Solarte that Luis Sardinas scored on and with an inning left, the game was tied at two. The Padres loaded the bases in the ninth, but Erick Aybar popped out to center and couldn’t get the winning run in, so we got some bonus baseball.
Extra innings didn’t take that long, even though it felt like it. In the 11th with the bases loaded, Hanigan grounded to short. Sardinas backhand tossed it to Aybar at second, but Aybar couldn’t make the catch, the runner was safe at second and Desmond came home and the Rockies essentially walked it off with the 3-2 win and the 2-1 series win.
The Rockies leave and the Dodgers come to town for a weekend series starting tomorrow night at 7:10 p.m. Kenta Maeda starts for LA against Jhoulys Chacin.
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