Blackmon’s slam caps epic night at plate

DENVER — Charlie Blackmon’s seventh-inning grand slam — which gave the Rockies a record-tying seven home runs in Tuesday night’s 17-4 victory over the Reds — soared into the home bullpen in right field and right into the glove of reliever Justin Miller.

“I didn’t even have to move — it would’ve hit me right in the chest,” Miller said. “Nobody could’ve thrown it any better.”

The Rockies couldn’t homer at will to an exact location, although it seemed that way on a night that saw the club also set franchise records for extra-base hits with 14 and total bases with 47, and set a season high with 19 hits.

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Interestingly, the record the Rockies tied was established not at Coors Field, or even at old Mile High Stadium, but at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium on April 5, 1997. On Tuesday, the Rox did the old Blake Street Bombers teams of the mid-to-late 1990s proud.

“We hit seven homers as a team tonight?” said Blackmon, who opened the first with a shot to become the first player in club history to hit leadoff homers in consecutive games. “That’s a lot of homers. We should do that every time. We have a really offensive team. A lot of guys have some power.

“Seven is a lot. The Bombers couldn’t do it. Why did we do it? Everybody got locked in tonight at the same time.”

The homers meant a lot to a lot of people in addition to Blackmon. For …

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