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- Updated: August 20, 2016
DENVER — The Rockies aren’t asking perfection of rookie right-handed reliever Matt Carasiti. They’re just trusting him for key outs.
Carasiti earned his first Major League win after the Rockies beat the Cubs, 7-6, in 11 innings on Friday night. Although he gave up a go-ahead run in the top of the 11th on Dexter Fowler’s two-out RBI single, he forced a fly ball to right from Kris Bryant, which gave the offense a chance to score twice off Cubs closer Aroldis Chapman in the bottom of the frame.
Carasiti, 25, a sixth-round pick in 2012 out of St. John’s, posted a 1.96 ERA with 37 saves in 44 combined games at Double-A Hartford and Triple-A Albuquerque before being called up to the Majors last Friday.
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