Rockies’ bats, Bettis best O’s in Baltimore

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BALTIMORE– The Rockies used a four-run third inning to deny Oriole ace Chris Tillman his 15th win and snap first-place Baltimore’s five-game win streak with Tuesday’s 6-3 victory.

Colorado had four consecutive two-out hits, including Carlos Gonzalez’s two-run double that looped just inside the foul line. They sent eight men to the plate in that critical third. Tillman went five innings, allowing nine hits and six runs to raise his season ERA to 3.47.

Rockies starter Chad Bettis went six innings and held the Orioles to two runs, both of which came on Adam Jones homer in the bottom of the fifth. Baltimore added another run on a wild pitch that scored Jones in the bottom of the eighth.

MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDTwo-out damage: Tillman was one pitch away from escaping a bases-loaded jam in the third inning, but Gonzalez refused to let him off the hook. Gonzalez sliced a line drive down the left-field line for a two-run ground-rule double. The Rockies weren’t done doing damage with two outs, though. Trevor Story lined a two-run single in the next at-bat to give the Rockies an early 4-0 lead, all on two-out RBIs. …

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