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- Updated: September 18, 2016
DENVER — Rockies starter Jon Gray set a club record with 16 strikeouts — including a club-record six straight in the second and third innings — and catcher Tom Murphy led the Colorado offense with two home runs and five RBIs as the Rockies took care of the Padres, 8-0, on Saturday at Coors Field.
Gray threw his first career shutout — and complete game — with extraordinary dominance. He struck out four in the second inning — Jon Jay reached on a passed ball — and punched out the first two batters to start the next inning. The right-hander allowed four hits and walked none, while no Padres baserunner made it past first base.
The Rockies got all the offense they needed in the first against Padres starter Edwin Jackson. Nolan Arenado reclaimed the National League home run lead with his 38th of the year, a two-run shot that traveled 444 feet, landing in the left-field concourse. Two batters later, Murphy doubled the lead with a two-run homer of his own, and he made it his first multi-homer game in the fifth with a three-run homer.
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