There was no Sunday hangover for the Rockies.
After a crushing 8-4 loss Saturday night, they rebounded with a 5-2 victory over the Phillies to take the three-game series.
Starting pitcher Cal Quantrill once again delivered for Colorado. And, for a refreshing change of pace, the bullpen was lights out. Matt Carasiti, Nick Mears and Tyler Kinley each pitched a scoreless inning. Kinley earned his second save.
Phillies left-hander Ranger Suarez came to Coors Field pitching like the leading Cy Young Award candidate, carrying a 9-0 record and a 1.36 ERA. He pitched a complete-game shutout against the Rockies last month in Philadelphia.
But Colorado beat him up early on Sunday to post a 5-0 lead. Ryan McMahon hit a two-run homer to right in the first, driving in Brendan Rodgers, who reached base on a one-out single. It was McMahon’s 10th homer of the season, and he’s driven in a team-high 32 runs.
The Rockies scored three more runs in the second on an RBI double by Hunter Goodman, a run-scoring groundout by Rodgers and a throwing error by Philly third baseman Alex Bohm.
Suarez settled in after that and pitched through six innings, allowing five runs (four earned) on just three hits. But he walked four to go with his nine strikeouts.
Quantrill was superb again. He allowed two runs on three hits over six innings and struck out five.
In his five May starts, Quantrill is 4-0 with a 1.71 ERA.
His only demerits on Sunday were two leadoff walks, but only one of those came back to bite him.
Quantrill walked Kyle Schwarber to open the fifth, Bryce Harper reached on an error by first baseman Elehuris Montero and Alex Bohm’s single to right scored Schwarber. Quantrill quashed Philly’s hopes for a big inning by inducing Bryson Stott to ground into a double play.
Philly scored its second run in the fifth on a one-out double by Brandon Marsh and a two-out single by Johan Rojas.
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