{"id":1312370,"date":"2019-07-12T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/murphys-homer-in-8th-helps-rockies-beat-reds-3-2\/"},"modified":"2019-07-12T22:12:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T04:12:00","slug":"murphys-homer-in-8th-helps-rockies-beat-reds-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/murphys-homer-in-8th-helps-rockies-beat-reds-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Murphy\u2019s homer in 8th helps Rockies beat Reds 3-2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Colorado Rockies’ Daniel Murphy gestures as he crosses home plate after hitting a solo home run, next to Cincinnati Reds catcher Curt Casali during the eighth inning of a baseball game Friday, July 12, 2019, in Denver. The Rockies won 3-2. (AP Photo\/David Zalubowski)<\/strong>
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DENVER \u2014 Daniel Murphy hit a go-ahead solo shot in the eighth for his first homer at Coors Field as a member of the Rockies and Colorado rallied for a 3-2 win over Cincinnati Reds on Friday night that snapped a six-game skid.<\/p>\n

Trailing 2-1 in the eighth, David Dahl tied the game with a solo homer off David Hernandez (2-5). Two batters later, Murphy sent a slider from Hernandez over the fence in right-center. It was Murphy\u2019s eighth homer this season. Murphy also had an RBI double.<\/p>\n

Jairo Diaz (2-2) picked up the win despite a rocky eighth and Wade Davis threw a 1-2-3 ninth for his 13th save.<\/p>\n

This game marked the first showdown between starters with the last name \u201cGray\u201d \u2014 Sonny for Cincinnati, Jon for Colorado \u2014 according to Stats. But neither factored into the decision despite their stellar outings.<\/p>\n

Still, they showed their true colors as Sonny Gray went even strong innings and allowed just five hits. His nine strikeouts tied a season high.<\/p>\n

Jon Gray matched his counterpart pitch-for-pitch in going seven innings and scattering four hits. His biggest mistake was a 3-2 fastball in the seventh that Eugenio Suarez lined for his 21st homer of the season. It gave the Reds a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n

Both Grays mowed through the lineup through five innings.<\/p>\n

In the sixth, Jesse Winker hit a one-out liner down the line in left that caromed off the side wall and eluded Dahl for an RBI triple. The Rockies limited the damage as Jon Gray struck out Joey Votto with catcher Tony Wolters then picking off Winker.<\/p>\n

Colorado tied it in the bottom of the inning on Murphy\u2019s run-scoring double. Sonny Gray avoided more trouble by enticing a double play.<\/p>\n

Jon Gray was aided by some splendid defense, including a barehanded play from Nolan Arenado on Yasiel Puig\u2019s slow roller in the fifth.<\/p>\n

TRAINER\u2019S ROOM<\/p>\n

Reds: LHP Amir Garrett (left lat injury) will go through rehab in Cincinnati as the team embarks on their six-game trip. \u201cIf everything continues to go the way it\u2019s going now, it should be right when we get home, hopefully,\u201d manager David Bell said of Garrett\u2019s return. \u2026 LHP Alex Wood (lower back) threw two innings and 51 pitches in a rehab start for Triple-A Louisville on Friday. \u2026 2B Scooter Gennett was a late scratch with an illness.<\/p>\n

TRUE COLORS<\/p>\n

The last time pitchers started against each other with the same color as a last name \u2014 and same spelling \u2014 was Jumbo Brown of the New York Yankees versus Lloyd Brown of Boston on July 26, 1933, according to Stats.<\/p>\n

MOVES<\/p>\n

The Reds reinstated LHP Wandy Peralta from the injured list after healing from a strained right hip flexor.<\/p>\n

FIELD DAY<\/p>\n

The Reds went through infield and outfield drills hours before first pitch. It was a way to get the team back in rhythm after the break.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was actually a pretty good workout,\u201d Bell said.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/p>\n

Colorado lefty Kyle Freeland (2-6, 7.13 ERA) will take the mound Saturday after a month in the minors working on his control. The Rockies are hoping he can return to the form that led to a fourth-place finish in the NL Cy Young voting a year ago. The Reds will throw righty Tanner Roark (5-6, 3.51).<\/p>\n

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Colorado Rockies’ Daniel Murphy gestures as he crosses home plate after hitting a solo home run, next to Cincinnati Reds catcher Curt Casali during the eighth inning of a baseball game Friday, July 12, 2019, in Denver. The Rockies won 3-2. (AP Photo\/David Zalubowski)AP | AP DENVER \u2014 Daniel Murphy hit a go-ahead solo shot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1312370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 15:30:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}