Rockies rally again, beat Diamondbacks for fifth win in six games

Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post on Aug 17, 2025

Published in Baseball

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DENVER — The Colorado Rockies’ rally thing has become a thing.

Showing scant signs of life at the plate and trailing Arizona 4-1, the Rockies scored four runs in the seventh inning to eek out a 6-5 victory on Sunday afternoon at Coors Field.

Colorado’s third straight win clinched the four-game series with the Diamondbacks. It was Colorado’s fifth win in its last six games, coming on the heels of its fifth eight-game losing streak of the season.

The Rockies’ four-run rally wasn’t showy, but it was scrappy. First baseman Warming Bernabel led off with a single to left field off reliever Jake Woodford and then Woodford jammed the bases by plunking Braxton Fulford and pinch-hitter Hunter Goodman on back-to-back at-bats.

Rookie second baseman Ryan Ritter made Woodford pay, punching a two-run single through the right side, cutting Arizona’s lead to 4-3. Designated hitter Mickey Moniak, Colorado’s best hitter with runners in scoring position, drove a two-out, two-run single to center to give the Rockies a 5-4 lead.

The Rockies scored a bonus run in the eighth on a single by Bernabel and an RBI double by Fulford.

Colorado needed the run because the D-backs scored a run in the ninth off Juan Mejia, who escaped with his first save of the season.

The day’s other bonus was the performance of Antonio Senzatela.

The veteran right-hander’s comeback start was a success. He pitched five efficient, scoreless innings. Senzatela had to deal with some traffic, particularly in the first inning, but he handled it with aplomb.

Senzatela gave up four hits — two in the first inning — walked one and struck out two. He threw 61 pitches, 42 for strikes.

Senzatela made his first start since Aug. 1, when the Pirates clobbered him for seven runs on eight hits in two-thirds of an inning. The club placed him on the injured list with a “finger blister.’ In reality, the club sent the right-hander down to their training facility at Salt River Fields at Scottsdale, Ariz., for a wellness check. In the pitching lab, the club figured some things out.

Arizona right-hander Nabil Crismatt, called up from Triple-A Reno for Sunday’s start, flummoxed Rockies hitters with his 82 mph changeup, generating nine whiffs on 15 swings. He struck out five, walked one and allowed just three singles.

Colorado nicked Crismatt for a run in the fifth, combining Brenton Doyle’s leadoff walk and stolen base with Orlando Arcia’s RBI single to right.

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