Longoria: Coors Field yields more triples

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DENVER — Prior to Monday night’s 7-4 loss to the Rockies at Coors Field, Rays third baseman Evan Longoria had two triples in his prior 429 games.

It took him four plate appearances to equal that number Monday night.

In his first trip to the plate, Longoria drove a 2-1 cutter from Rockies left-hander Tyler Anderson into the left-center-field gap for his first three-bagger of the game, driving in the Rays’ first run.

Longoria led off the eighth inning with another triple, this one to right-center field on a 3-2 curveball from reliever Jason Motte. Though he represented the tying run …

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