Major League Baseball
Colorado 7, San Diego 3
When: 8:40 PM ET, Friday, August 16, 2024
Where: Coors Field, Denver, Colorado
Temperature: 91°
Umpires: Home - CB Bucknor, 1B - Jeremy Riggs, 2B - Adam Beck, 3B - Dan Iassogna
Attendance: 33054

Charlie Blackmon homered among his two hits, Brendan Rodgers also went deep and the Colorado Rockies cooled off the streaking San Diego Padres with a 7-3 win in Denver on Friday night.

Rookie Jordan Beck had three hits to back starter Cal Quantrill's solid start and end Colorado's three-game losing streak.

Ha-Seong Kim and Xander Bogaerts homered and Jackson Merrill, Luis Arraez and David Peralta contributed two hits each for San Diego. The Padres are 19-5 in the second half of the season and three of those losses are to the two teams with the worst records in the NL - the Marlins and Rockies.

San Diego loaded the bases with no outs in the first inning, but Quantrill worked out of the jam without giving up a run. Meanwhile, Colorado took advantage of its opportunity in the bottom of the inning.

Blackmon led off with a walk, Ezequiel Tovar singled and, after a forceout, Ryan McMahon drove in a run with a single.

Rodgers then hit a 77-mph knuckleball from Padres starter Matt Waldron into the seats in left to give the Rockies a 4-0 lead. It was his 10th homer of the season.

The Padres got a pair back in the second on Kim's two-run homer, his 11th of the season, but Blackmon answered with his eighth home run in the bottom of the inning, a two-run shot to right.

Bogaerts led off the fourth with his sixth homer of the season to cut San Diego's deficit to 6-3.

That was all Quantrill (8-8) allowed, as he gave up three runs on six hits and struck out five in five innings.

The Padres had a chance to get closer when Merrill tripled with one out in the sixth, but Kim grounded into a double play to end the inning.

Colorado added another run in the sixth when Michael Toglia doubled, moved to third on a groundout and scored on Beck's third hit of the game.

That was all for Waldron (7-10), who allowed seven runs on nine hits and struck out six in 5 2/3 innings.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
San Diego   Colorado
Matt Waldron Player Cal Quantrill
Loss W/L Win
5.2 IP 5.0
6 Strikeouts 5
9 Hits 6
11.12 ERA 5.40
Hitting
San Diego   Colorado
David Peralta Player Jordan Beck
2 Hits 3
0 RBI 1
0 HR 0
3 TB 3
.667 Avg .750
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
San Diego 10 2 19 .303 24 8 3 6 0 0
Colorado 10 2 17 .294 12 9 7 2 2 0