Rockies 7, Mets 4: Juan Nicasio pitched seven shutout innings and collected a career-best three RBIs as host Colorado defeated New York in the opener of their four-game series.

Carlos Gonzalez homered while Nolan Arenado went 1-for-3 to stretch his hitting streak to 21 games and also drove in a run as the Rockies won for the fifth time in seven games. Corey Dickerson went 3-for-4 with an RBI and scored twice for Colorado.

Nicasio (3-1) allowed just three hits and a walk in a 95-pitch effort. He smacked a two-run single off Bartolo Colon (2-4) in the second inning and added a sacrifice fly in the fourth.

Gonzalez homered in the first inning and Nicasio’s single an inning later made it 3-0. Charlie Blackmon hit a run-scoring single in a three-run fourth as the Rockies doubled their lead.

Dickerson’s RBI triple in the fifth made it 7-0 and prompted the removal of Colon, who gave up seven runs and 10 hits in 4 2/3 innings. The Mets got on the board in the eighth, when Juan Lagares stroked a run-scoring double into the right-center field gap, and Travis d’Arnaud pounded a three-run homer to center with two out in the ninth.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Gonzalez departed in the fourth inning with a bruised left index finger. … Lagares (hamstring) went 2-for-4 after being activated from the disabled list prior to the game, while OF Kirk Nieuwenhuis was optioned to Triple-A Las Vegas. … Rockies C Wilin Rosario (hand) returned after a four-game absence and went 0-for-3 with a walk.