The baseball gods did not wait long to test Pete Crow-Armstrong and his heralded Gold Glove-caliber defense in center field.
Right-hander Javier Assad lasted just 3 1/3 innings as he landed only 40 of his 79 pitches for strikes. It caught up to him in a four-run fourth when the Rockies’ Nos. 7-9 batters all reached to begin the inning to give Colorado some momentum. Kris Bryant’s checked swing turned into a bloop two-run game-tying single to right field with the bases loaded. A ground out and RBI single put the Rockies ahead 4-2.
“We could have done a lot of things better,” manager David Ross said. “Our signature is getting good starting pitching and we didn’t get that from Assad tonight.”“He kind of lost command a little bit there. Could have done some things better defensively ... made too many outs on the bases.” Asked whether the base running snafus were the result of players trying to do too much or over-aggressiveness, Ross only said, “They’re just outs on the bases.”
Seiya Suzuki tied the game in the sixth with his opposite-field, two-run home run after the Rockies went to the bullpen. Of the 17 home runs Suzuki has hit this year, eight have come since Aug. 9 when he returned from his brief benching for a mental reset. In his last 32 games including Tuesday, Suzuki is slashing .353/.411/.723 while his 1.7 fWAR in that span is tied for sixth-best among major-league hitters.“I think those long stretches of where I’m kind of slumping, I don’t really have that anymore,” Suzuki said through interpreter Toy Matsushita.
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