Chris Iannetta’s homer in the bottom of the ninth inning gave the Colorado Rockies their second come-from-behind victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in as many nights with Wednesday’s 8-7 triumph.
A day after scoring nine runs in their final at-bats to stun the Cardinals, the Rockies plated four runs in the final two frames for their third straight win.
Dexter Fowler belted a three-run homer in the eighth that evened things up before Iannetta ended it an inning later with his sixth blast of the season off Evan MacLane (0-1).
Jonathan Herrera, Carlos Gonzalez and Brad Eldred each had three hits apiece in Colorado’s 15-hit attack.
Huston Street (1-1) earned the win with one perfect inning of relief.
Matt Holliday had a pair of home runs among four hits while scoring four times and John Jay had three hits and drove in a pair for St. Louis, which grabbed a 5-0 lead through five.
Ian Stewart drove in two runs with a single in the fifth and later got the Rockies within 6-4 with another run-producing base hit.
Holliday then pushed the cushion to three runs with his 14th homer of the campaign prior to the late heroics.
St. Louis | Colorado | |
Jaime Garcia | Player | Aaron Cook |
No Decision | W/L | No Decision |
5.1 | IP | 5.0 |
3 | Strikeouts | 1 |
9 | Hits | 10 |
3.38 | ERA | 9.00 |
St. Louis | Colorado | |
Matt Holliday | Player | Brad Eldred |
4 | Hits | 3 |
2 | RBI | 0 |
2 | HR | 0 |
11 | TB | 4 |
.800 | Avg | .750 |