Ezequiel Tovar Powers Colorado Rockies Past Giants 8-6
Ezequiel Tovar pushed the colorado rockies to an 8-6 walk-off win over the Giants on Friday at Coors Field, finishing a ninth-inning comeback with his second homer of the night. Colorado trailed 6-3 entering the ninth and still left with its first walk-off victory of the season.
Tovar and Goodman Flip It
Hunter Goodman tied the game with a three-run homer in the ninth, and Tovar followed with a two-run shot that ended it. Tovar drove in four runs with homers in the eighth and ninth innings, the kind of late swing that turned a three-run deficit into the Rockies’ 21st win against 37 losses.
The loss dropped San Francisco to 22-35. Colorado had already trimmed the margin in the eighth when Tovar went deep to cut into a 4-1 deficit, setting up the final inning for Goodman and then Tovar again.
Rockies Pitching Lines
Juan Mejia earned the win despite allowing two runs in the top of the ninth inning, while Caleb Kilian took the loss after giving up five runs in that frame. Michael Lorenzen gave Colorado 3.2 innings, allowing three runs on five hits and two walks with two strikeouts, and Logan Webb lasted 4.1 innings, allowing one run on three hits and three walks.
Edouard Julien also broke through in the second inning, getting his first hit in 35 at-bats and snapping an 0-for-34 skid with a sharp single to center. That early base hit helped Colorado open the scoring before San Francisco answered with a sacrifice fly from Willy Adames and a Harrison Bader single in the middle innings.
Coors Field Rally
The Rockies came home trying to end a losing streak against a division opponent, and the ninth inning gave them exactly that. They kept contact in the game, got the tying blast from Goodman, and then watched Tovar finish a night that changed the result in one swing.
