Blackmon homers, but Rockies fall to D-backs

PHOENIX — When the Rockies and D-backs combined for seven first-inning runs it looked like it might end up being a slugfest Tuesday night at Chase Field. But after the first, it was the D-backs that did most of the slugging as they rolled past the Rockies, 11-4.

After the Rockies scored three runs in the top of the first off Robbie Ray (8-13), Jean Segura got the D-backs going with a homer to lead off the bottom of the first as part of a four-run rally against Jorge De La Rosa (8-8).

“Obviously, the first inning was like getting punched in the nose there,” D-backs manager Chip Hale said. “I thought the offense coming in and scoring four gave him [Ray] a lot of life. Gave him a lot of time to sit and get it back together. If we had had a quick first it might have been tough for him.”

Segura hit his second homer of the game in the fourth and the D-backs blew things open in the fifth, sending 10 men to the plate while scoring five runs. Brandon Drury homered during the frame, sending a ball into the pool beyond the right-field fence. More >

Following the first-inning outburst the Rockies offense could only muster a solo homer by Charlie Blackmon the rest of the way.

“We’ve just got to pitch better,” Rockeis manager Walt Weiss said.

MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDRay’s K’s: Ray’s strikeout of De La Rosa to end the fourth was his 200th of the season making him just the fourth pitcher in club history to accomplish the feat, as he joined Randy Johhnson, Curt Schilling and Dan Haren. Johnson did it five times while Schilling and Haren each recorded two 200-plus strikeout seasons.

“I knew I was close and I knew if I put up a decent number that I’d get to it,” Ray said. “It’s a huge accomplishment, there’s not a ton of guys I don’t think — I don’t know, I haven’t looked — in the game that have 200 strikeouts. To be mentioned in the same group with those guys, it’s …

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