Blackmon’s slick slide avoids tag, creates run

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PHILADELPHIA — Rockies leadoff man Charlie Blackmon is baseball’s version of Michael Phelps with his various swim moves.

For the second time this season, Blackmon made a swim move on a tag — offering one limb, then pulling it back to avoid a tag and reaching base with another limb. Each time, he was called out originally, but a replay review changed the call.

In Sunday’s finale against the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park, he …

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