If ever a team needed a walk-off win, it was the Rockies.
They got it — their first of the year — on Orlando Arcia’s bases-loaded, two-run single to left off Giants reliever Randy Rodriguez, lifting the Rockies to an 8-7 win on Thursday afternoon at Coors Field.
The rally began with a one-out walk by Sam Hilliard. Then Thairo Estarada ripped Rodriguez for a double to left and McMahon drew another walk, loading the bases for Brenton Doyle. Doyle smashed a grounder to third baseman Casey Schmitt for a possible game-ending double play, but Schmitt fumbled the ball for an error and Hilliard scored to make it 7-6.
Two batters later, with the Rockies down to their last out, Arcia smashed his game-winner on a 3-2 count. Rodriguez had Arcia down 0-2.
The jubilant Rockies snapped their five-game losing streak, avoided being swept for the 12th time this season and dodged a winless homestand. Still, with a 13-55 record, Colorado is tied with the 1932 Red Sox for the worst start in baseball’s modern era.
As thrilling as the victory was for the Rockies, it was another rough start for right-hander Antonio Senzatela. The Giants rocked him for seven runs over four-plus innings.
The Giants battered Senzatela for four runs in their five-hit second inning and three more in the third on a 438-foot, three-run homer to the second deck in right field by Dominic Smith, his first homer of the season.
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The Rockies, as is their custom, rallied late. Before the ninth-inning rally, they made the game interesting in the seventh when second baseman Estrada — the former Giant — ripped a two-run double to left off San Francisco reliever Sean Hjelle. Jordan Beck reached on an infield hit and Hilliard drew a walk to set up the rally.
The Rockies scored three runs over six innings against Giants right-hander Hayden Birdsong. Rookie shortstop Ryan Ritter’s bases-loaded two-run single in the fourth got Colorado on the board. Mickey Moniak’s solo homer in the sixth cut San Francisco’s lead to 7-3. Moniak’s seventh homer was an opposite-field shot down the left field line.
Colorado, 7-27 at home, opens a three-game series at Atlanta on Friday. Colorado is 6-28 on the road.
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